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Mass Market Paperback
First published July 12, 1974
4 stars ... Delany's usual excellent writing and usual thoughtful while a bit loose plotting ... thinking about it after awhile, this story grows on me ...Baby, You Were Great (1967) • Kate Wilhelm
4 stars ... Baby, You're the star of your "Truman Show" and you know it, and it's not just cameras but your feelings and sensations, and you can never be free, and the director needs more intensity in those feelings and sensations with each episode to keep the audience satisfied ...Live, from Berchtesgaden (1972) • George Alec Effinger
4 stars ... in a way not so much going on, but then the ending, thinking about it got to me ...As Never Was (1944) • P. Schuyler Miller
4 stars ... alternate time lines, infinite universes, why a time traveler can't return to the world they left if they visit the past but can if they visit the future, wasn't expecting those more sophisticated time travel ideas in a story so old ... intriguing and well written ...We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (1966) • Philip K. Dick
4 stars ... no longer the PKD-head that I was in younger years but this famous story is one of his best ...Yesterday House (1952) • Fritz Leiber
4 stars ... the most romantic story of the lot, seems a bit obvious to us now but for the early 50s ... some beautiful writing ...A Man Must Die (1966) • John Clute
4 stars ...The Skills of Xanadu (1956) • Theodore Sturgeon
5 stars ... don't know many writers who can combine an intriguing sf premise, effortlessly excellent prose, undercurrents of philosophy and political metaphors, and plenty of humor like Sturgeon does here ... if this is one of Sturgeon's lesser known stories (as Silverberg says) I better quickly get to reading more ...A Special Kind of Morning (1971) • Gardner Dozois
4 stars ... not up there with The Forever War but very very good metaphorical Vietnam War sf ...