A Medicine for Melancholy
This table lists the contents of A Medicine for Melancholy, and links to adaptations of the stories in various media.
| Story |
Film/TV
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Audio
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Details
of First publication
(and other notes) |
| In a Season of Calm Weather |
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First published as “The Picasso Summer”, Playboy, January 1957 | |
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The Dragon |
Esquire, August 1955 | ||
| A Medicine for Melancholy |
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(First appearance.) | |
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The End of the Beginning |
First published as "Next Stop: The Stars", Maclean’s, October 27 1956 | ||
| The Wonderful Ice-Cream Suit | First published as "The Magic White Suit", Saturday Evening Post, October 4 1958 | ||
| Fever Dream | Weird Tales, September 1948. | ||
| The Marriage Mender | Collier's, January 22 1954 | ||
| The Town Where No One Got Off | Ray Bradbury Theater | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, October 1958 | |
| A Scent of Sarsaparilla | Star Science Fiction Stories #1, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine 1953 | ||
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Icarus Montgolfier Wright |
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1956. | ||
| The Headpiece | Lilliput, May 1958 | ||
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Dark They Were, and Golden-eyed |
First published as "The Naming of Names", Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1949. | ||
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The Smile |
Fantastic, Summer 1952 | ||
| The First Night of Lent | Playboy, March 1956 | ||
| The Time of Going Away | The Reporter, November 29 1956 | ||
| All Summer in a Day | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 1954. | ||
| The Gift | Steve Canyon | Esquire, December 1952 | |
| The Great Collision of Monday Last | Contact, January 1958 | ||
| The Little Mice | First published as "The Mice", Escapade, October 1955 | ||
| The Shore Line at Sunset | First published as "The Sunset Harp", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 1959 | ||
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The Strawberry Window |
Star Science Fiction Stories #3, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine 1954 | ||
| The Day it Rained Forever | Harper’s, July 1957 |
A Medicine for Melancholy
First published by Doubleday in 1959. (The similar UK book The Day it Rained Forever, with slightly different contents, was first published a few days later.)
Picture shows Bantam paperback edition (date unknown).
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Avon paperback, 1998.
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Denoel edition, France.
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Diogenes edition, Germany 1996.
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Bantam
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