Element 79 (anthology)

First edition
(publ. New American Library)
Cover art by Stanislaw Zagorski

Element 79 is a collection of science fiction short stories authored by English astronomer and writer Fred Hoyle and published in 1969. Included in the collection is the eponymous short story, Element 79. The collection takes its name from the atomic number of the seventy-ninth element, gold.

Contents

The anthology includes fifteen short stories:

• Zoomen
• Pym Makes His Point
• The Magnetosphere
• A Play's the Thing
• Cattle Trucks
• Welcome to Slippage City
• The Ax
• Agent 38
• The Martians
• Shortsighted
• A Jury of Five
• Blackmail
• Element 79
• The Judgment of Aphrodite
• The Operation