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Groff Conklin described the novel as " one of Heinlein's most enchanting tales.
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Galaxy reviewer Groff Conklin placed the novel " among the great works of the imagination written in English in the last decade or more.
Galaxy reviewer Groff Conklin described Legend as " a weird rather slow-moving first novel ... a horrid, violent, sometimes exciting but too often overdone tour de force.
Groff Conklin reviewed the novel favorably, calling it " a magnificently real and vivid Picture of the Possible.
Groff Conklin praised the novel as " an adventure story with an unusual amount of realism in its telling.
Reviewer Groff Conklin described the Shasta edition as " a classic " and the lead story as " a smashing tale of revolution in the United States.
It was anthologised by Groff Conklin in The Best of Science Fiction, the first of Asimov's stories to have been reprinted, and was later included in The Early Asimov ( in 1972, along with a very brief history of its origins ), The Asimov Chronicles in 1989 and in volume 2 of The Complete Stories in 1992.
However, Groff Conklin, reviewing the novel's initial book publication, characterized it as " a good run-of-the-mill affair " and " pleasant reading ... provided you aren't out hunting science fiction masterpieces.
Groff Conklin praised the collection as " an excellent introduction to the style and to the imagination of one of science fiction's most important writers.
A major survey of Conklin's contribution to science fiction is Bud Webster's 41 Above the Rest: An Index and Checklist for the Anthologies of Groff Conklin.
: Groff Conklin was the most important science fiction anthologist through the years of the genre's true second generation, that point at which its previously magazine-bound masterpieces were being systematically located, aligned and placed into permanent format.
* Book Think: Interview with Bud Webster about 41 Above the Rest: An Index and Checklist for the Anthologies of Groff Conklin
Reviewer Groff Conklin declared Foundation " a book of real intellectual entertainment and adventure.
On its initial publication, Galaxy reviewer Groff Conklin described Second Foundation as " a thoroughly satisfying and adult play of the scientific imagination.
Groff Conklin described Foundation and Empire as " fine swashbuckling galactic adventure on some extremely hard-headed, scientific and mature social-political thinking.
Reviewing the novel for a genre science fiction audience, Groff Conklin declared it " a biting, vividly alive and very effectively understated anti-Utopia.
On its initial book publication, reviewer Groff Conklin termed the novel " a first-rate piece of imaginative story-telling.
It was first anthologised by Groff Conklin in The Best of Science Fiction, the first of Asimov's stories to have been reprinted, and was later included in The Early Asimov ( in 1972, along with a very brief history of its origins ), The Asimov Chronicles in 1989 and in volume 2 of The Complete Stories in 1992.
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Groff Conklin, reviewing a 1951 edition, described Slan as " a little overblown, considerably melodramatic, but still really gripping adventure story.
Groff Conklin described the original edition of the novel as " a light, simple, fast-moving and often richly imaginative fantasy.
" Reviewer Groff Conklin described the novel as " almost entirely conceived in the straight gee-whiz adventure technique that is the classical pattern for teenage adventure stories.
" Groff Conklin described More Than Human as " a masterpiece of invention ... written in an unmannered prose that still has a poetic, panchromatic individuality.
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Groff Conklin, reviewing the American edition, characterized the novel as " sheer melodrama, sure, but melodrama spiced with wit with pungent commentary on human foibles.
Groff Conklin praised the novel as effective juvenile fare: " no romance, parlous little science, but endless imagination, exciting ideas and events.
Reviewing the Gnome Press edition, Groff Conklin found the novel to have " real merit " considered as an imaginative work, but characterized Howard's writing as " only average laden with bombast.
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Originally in Astounding Science Fiction ( February, 1950 ), this story was first anthologized in Groff Conklin's Omnibus of Science Fiction ( Crown, 1952 ) and has also been published under the title " The Pyramid in the Desert.
Most cultivars grown in the United States were imported from China, except for the ' Groff ', which was developed in the state of Hawaii.
The names of the original Lancaster County townships reflect the diverse array of settlers in the new county: two had Welsh names ( Caernarvon and Lampeter ), three had Native American names ( Cocalico, Conestoga and Peshtank or Paxton ), six were English ( Warwick, Lancaster, Martic, Sadsbury, Salisbury and Hempfield ); four were Irish ( Donegal, Drumore, Derry, and Leacock ), Manheim was German, Lebanon came from the Bible, and Earl the anglicization of the German surname of Graf or Groff.
The land which became Quarryville Borough was originally located within New Providence Township and was the property of a John (" Swamp John ") Groff.
The township includes a village called Mascot, named by Annie Groff, a deceased member of the Ressler family, owners of the Mascot Roller Mills.
Recent former mayors have included Jerry Alford ( retired telecommunications executive ), Toby Osburn ( university administrator ), Dr. Allen Groff ( physician ), and Tom Porter ( retired educator ).
Groff is an anglicized form of the surname Graf or Graff and of predominantly Swiss and sometimes German origin.
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