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The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction
Contents:
Introduction · Robert Silverberg & Martin H. Greenberg
· Angel’s Egg · Edgar Pangborn · Jun ’51
· Rescue Party · Arthur C. Clarke · May ’46
· Shape [“Keep Your Shape”] · Robert Sheckley · Nov ’53
· Alpha Ralpha Boulevard · Cordwainer Smith · Jun ’61
· Winter’s King · Ursula K. Le Guin · 1969
· Or All the Seas with Oysters · Avram Davidson · May ’58
· Common Time · James Blish · Aug ’53
· When You Care, When You Love · Theodore Sturgeon · Sep ’62
· The Shadow of Space · Philip José Farmer · Nov ’67
· “All You Zombies—” · Robert A. Heinlein · Mar ’59
· I’m Scared · Jack Finney · Sep ’51
· Child’s Play · William Tenn · Mar ’47
· Grandpa · James H. Schmitz · Feb ’55
· Private Eye [as by Lewis Padgett] · Henry Kuttner · Jan ’49
· Sundance · Robert Silverberg · Jun ’69
· In the Bowl · John Varley · Dec ’75
· Kaleidoscope · Ray Bradbury · Oct ’49
· Unready to Wear · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · Apr ’53
· Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night · Algis Budrys · Dec ’61
· Day Million · Frederik Pohl · Feb/Mar ’66
· Hobson’s Choice · Alfred Bester · Aug ’52
· The Gift of Gab · Jack Vance · Sep ’55
· The Man Who Never Grew Young · Fritz Leiber · 1947
· Neutron Star [Beowulf Shaeffer] · Larry Niven · Oct ’66
· Impostor · Philip K. Dick · Jun ’53
· The Human Operators · Harlan Ellison & A. E. van Vogt · Jan ’71
· Poor Little Warrior! · Brian W. Aldiss · Apr ’58
· When It Changed · Joanna Russ · 1972
· The Bicentennial Man · Isaac Asimov · 1976
· Hunting Machine · Carol Emshwiller · May ’57
· Light of Other Days [Slow Glass] · Bob Shaw · Aug ’66
· The Keys to December · Roger Zelazny · nv New Worlds Aug ’66
· Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand · Vonda N. McIntyre · Oct ’73
· A Galaxy Called Rome · Barry N. Malzberg · Jul ’75
· Stranger Station · Damon Knight · Dec ’56
· The Time of His Life · Larry Eisenberg · Apr ’68
· The Marching Morons · C. M. Kornbluth · Apr ’51
· The Women Men Don’t See · James Tiptree, Jr. · Dec ’73
· The Queen of Air and Darkness · Poul Anderson · Apr ’71
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First published April 7, 1980
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Robert Silverberg
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Robert Silverberg is a highly celebrated American science fiction author and editor known for his prolific output and literary range. Over a career spanning decades, he has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards and was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2004. Inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1999, Silverberg is recognized for both his immense productivity and his contributions to the genre's evolution.
Born in Brooklyn, he began writing in his teens and won his first Hugo Award in 1956 as the best new writer. Throughout the 1950s, he produced vast amounts of fiction, often under pseudonyms, and was known for writing up to a million words a year. When the market declined, he diversified into other genres, including historical nonfiction and erotica.
Silverberg’s return to science fiction in the 1960s marked a shift toward deeper psychological and literary themes, contributing significantly to the New Wave movement. Acclaimed works from this period include Downward to the Earth, Dying Inside, Nightwings, and The World Inside. In the 1980s, he launched the Majipoor series with Lord Valentine’s Castle, creating one of the most imaginative planetary settings in science fiction.
Though he announced his retirement from writing in the mid-1970s, Silverberg returned with renewed vigor and continued to publish acclaimed fiction into the 1990s. He received further recognition with the Nebula-winning Sailing to Byzantium and the Hugo-winning Gilgamesh in the Outback.
Silverberg has also played a significant role as an editor and anthologist, shaping science fiction literature through both his own work and his influence on others. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, author Karen Haber.
Robert Silverberg is a highly celebrated American science fiction author and editor known for his prolific output and literary range. Over a career spanning decades, he has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards and was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2004. Inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1999, Silverberg is recognized for both his immense productivity and his contributions to the genre's evolution.
Born in Brooklyn, he began writing in his teens and won his first Hugo Award in 1956 as the best new writer. Throughout the 1950s, he produced vast amounts of fiction, often under pseudonyms, and was known for writing up to a million words a year. When the market declined, he diversified into other genres, including historical nonfiction and erotica.
Silverberg’s return to science fiction in the 1960s marked a shift toward deeper psychological and literary themes, contributing significantly to the New Wave movement. Acclaimed works from this period include Downward to the Earth, Dying Inside, Nightwings, and The World Inside. In the 1980s, he launched the Majipoor series with Lord Valentine’s Castle, creating one of the most imaginative planetary settings in science fiction.
Though he announced his retirement from writing in the mid-1970s, Silverberg returned with renewed vigor and continued to publish acclaimed fiction into the 1990s. He received further recognition with the Nebula-winning Sailing to Byzantium and the Hugo-winning Gilgamesh in the Outback.
Silverberg has also played a significant role as an editor and anthologist, shaping science fiction literature through both his own work and his influence on others. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, author Karen Haber.
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July 3, 2015
En la entrega numero 32 de relatos de ciencia ficción de Caralt, nos encontramos con una recopilación en la que el punto en común de casi todas historias son el viaje en el tiempo y en el espacio, de maneras diferentes y con diversos significados.
No obstante, en cada relato que la compone es primordial destacar la importancia otorgada a la interacción entre seres vivos, su psique y posteriores consecuencias.
A pesar de ser una equilibrada antología que no decae en ningún momento de nivel, destaco cómo mejores relatos: ‘La sombra del espacio’, ‘Todos ustedes, los zombies’, ‘Ojo privado’ y ‘En la concavidad’.
Paso a relatar el argumento y mi impresión acerca de cada uno de ellos:
1/ La sombra del espacio (Philip Jose Farmer)
Éste relato nos explica el ataque de una investigadora, rescatada por los tripulantes de una nave espacial de la armada terrestre, la cual es enviada para realizar el primer viaje espacial por encima de la velocidad de la luz. A raíz de el altercado, dichos militares comprobarán qué no todo está planteado, teorizado y descubierto en cuanto a las leyes físicas, su existencia fuera del universo y sus limites.
ÉSTE AUTOR SIEMPRE PLANTEA HISTORIAS MUY INTERESANTES Y CON ALTA BASE DE SCI FI. ME HA GUSTADO MUCHO.
2/ Todos ustedes, los Zombies (Robert A. Heinlein)
La base del argumento es el testimonio desgarrador y traumático de un humano hermafrodita ,contado a un presunto camarero, (que después resulta ser un agente del tiempo) y su cambio de un sexo al otro, además del robo de su hija. Entonces el agente le propondrá el trato de recuperarla y vengarse del desalmado que se la robó volviendo al pasado. Pero todo ello a cambio de algo...
Basado en un concepto filosífico, Heinlein nos muestra su maestría una vez más. Un relato EXTRAORDINARIO, ENREVESADO Y PERTURBADOR, CON UN GIRO TREMENDO Y MUY ORIGINAL. QUIZÁ LA MEJOR HISTORIA DE LA ANTOLOGÍA. ME HA GUSTADO MUCHO.
3/ Estoy asustado (Jack Finney)
Un anciano escucha una emisión radiofónica pasada cómo si fuese en el tiempo presente. A partir de entonces, recogerá un gran volúmen de testimonios parecidos al suyo, que se van desencadenando por toda la ciudad.
Un relato CON UN TRANFONDO PSICOLÓGICO Y SOCIAL DE CORTE FANTÁSTICO. MUY INTERESANTE. ME HA GUSTADO MUCHO.
4/ Juego de niños (William Tenn)
Un joven abogado recibe un misterioso paquete fechado en el futuro, con un contenido sórdido y peligroso en manos equivocadas.
Una historia de ACCIÓN / REACCIÓN. NO ESTÁ MAL.
5/ El abuelito (James H. Schmitz)
Un explorador en misión de reconocimientro y control de un planeta, alerta que ‘el abuelito’ ( un ser vivo utilizado cómo transporte) está mutando de forma misteriosa.
Un relato ATMOSFÉRICO. ESTÁ BIEN.
6/ Ojo privado (Henry Kuttner)
Nos situamos en un futuro en el cual se puede acusar de homicidio y condenar a una persona a prisión tan sólo si se demuestra premeditación. Un sociólogo y un técnico de imagen ,analizan a través de una tecnología de vigilancia de observacíon del ser humano desde su alumbramiento, el caso de un posible homicidio intencionado. En la historia se alterna el punto de vista de los especialistas encargados del caso con el pensamiento y las reflexiones en pasado, presente y futuro del presunto asesino.
Relato DE TREMENDA CARGA PSICOLÓGICA. ME HA GUSTADO MUCHO.
7/ Danza solar (Robert Silverberg)
El relato trata el conflicto interior de un biólogo encargado de la exterminación de una plaga habitada en un nuevo planeta que precisan habitar los terrícolas.
Silverberg nos muestra una vez más UN MENSAJE ÉTICO Y PSICOLÓGICO EN UNA HISTORIA QUE MEZCLA REALIDAD Y FANTASÍA. ME HA GUSTADO.
8/ En la concavidad (John Varley)
Un turista en venus precisa de asistencia médica urgente a pesar de su escaso dinero. Por ello acude a una futura joven de la profesión, que es muy eficiente.
Una CURIOSA HISTORIA DE AMOR CON UN FONDO FUTURISTA MUY IMAGINATIVO. ENCANTADORA, ATMOSFÉRICA E INTIMISTA. ME HA GUSTADO MUCHO.
9/ Caleidoscopio (Ray Bradbury)
Los tripulantes de un cohete espacial, tras su estallido y desfragmentación, son lanzados al abismo. Ante el inminente desenlace , éstos repasan sus vidas y tratan de sincerarse.
Un relato CASI DE ESTILO POÉTICO, REFLEXIVO Y FILOSÓFICO. ESTÁ BIEN.
10/ Los anfibios (Kurt Vonnegut Jr)
Éste último que cierra la antología, nos narra la experiencia de la evolución de unos determinados humanos, que son dotados de cuerpos ‘anfibios’ temporales en posesión, una vez han salido del suyo própio permanentemente, y por lo tanto, dejan de ser únicamente materia.
El relato es una IRÓNICA REFLEXIÓN Y UNA CRITICA ACERCA DEL INDIVIDUO Y SU BIOLOGÍA (que no hace sino limitarnos y enfermarnos), además de su comportamiento en el plano social, material, sus fobias, miedos y rechazos; en el que siempre el poder lucha por controlar a todo y a todos. ME HA GUSTADO.
No obstante, en cada relato que la compone es primordial destacar la importancia otorgada a la interacción entre seres vivos, su psique y posteriores consecuencias.
A pesar de ser una equilibrada antología que no decae en ningún momento de nivel, destaco cómo mejores relatos: ‘La sombra del espacio’, ‘Todos ustedes, los zombies’, ‘Ojo privado’ y ‘En la concavidad’.
Paso a relatar el argumento y mi impresión acerca de cada uno de ellos:
1/ La sombra del espacio (Philip Jose Farmer)
Éste relato nos explica el ataque de una investigadora, rescatada por los tripulantes de una nave espacial de la armada terrestre, la cual es enviada para realizar el primer viaje espacial por encima de la velocidad de la luz. A raíz de el altercado, dichos militares comprobarán qué no todo está planteado, teorizado y descubierto en cuanto a las leyes físicas, su existencia fuera del universo y sus limites.
ÉSTE AUTOR SIEMPRE PLANTEA HISTORIAS MUY INTERESANTES Y CON ALTA BASE DE SCI FI. ME HA GUSTADO MUCHO.
2/ Todos ustedes, los Zombies (Robert A. Heinlein)
La base del argumento es el testimonio desgarrador y traumático de un humano hermafrodita ,contado a un presunto camarero, (que después resulta ser un agente del tiempo) y su cambio de un sexo al otro, además del robo de su hija. Entonces el agente le propondrá el trato de recuperarla y vengarse del desalmado que se la robó volviendo al pasado. Pero todo ello a cambio de algo...
Basado en un concepto filosífico, Heinlein nos muestra su maestría una vez más. Un relato EXTRAORDINARIO, ENREVESADO Y PERTURBADOR, CON UN GIRO TREMENDO Y MUY ORIGINAL. QUIZÁ LA MEJOR HISTORIA DE LA ANTOLOGÍA. ME HA GUSTADO MUCHO.
3/ Estoy asustado (Jack Finney)
Un anciano escucha una emisión radiofónica pasada cómo si fuese en el tiempo presente. A partir de entonces, recogerá un gran volúmen de testimonios parecidos al suyo, que se van desencadenando por toda la ciudad.
Un relato CON UN TRANFONDO PSICOLÓGICO Y SOCIAL DE CORTE FANTÁSTICO. MUY INTERESANTE. ME HA GUSTADO MUCHO.
4/ Juego de niños (William Tenn)
Un joven abogado recibe un misterioso paquete fechado en el futuro, con un contenido sórdido y peligroso en manos equivocadas.
Una historia de ACCIÓN / REACCIÓN. NO ESTÁ MAL.
5/ El abuelito (James H. Schmitz)
Un explorador en misión de reconocimientro y control de un planeta, alerta que ‘el abuelito’ ( un ser vivo utilizado cómo transporte) está mutando de forma misteriosa.
Un relato ATMOSFÉRICO. ESTÁ BIEN.
6/ Ojo privado (Henry Kuttner)
Nos situamos en un futuro en el cual se puede acusar de homicidio y condenar a una persona a prisión tan sólo si se demuestra premeditación. Un sociólogo y un técnico de imagen ,analizan a través de una tecnología de vigilancia de observacíon del ser humano desde su alumbramiento, el caso de un posible homicidio intencionado. En la historia se alterna el punto de vista de los especialistas encargados del caso con el pensamiento y las reflexiones en pasado, presente y futuro del presunto asesino.
Relato DE TREMENDA CARGA PSICOLÓGICA. ME HA GUSTADO MUCHO.
7/ Danza solar (Robert Silverberg)
El relato trata el conflicto interior de un biólogo encargado de la exterminación de una plaga habitada en un nuevo planeta que precisan habitar los terrícolas.
Silverberg nos muestra una vez más UN MENSAJE ÉTICO Y PSICOLÓGICO EN UNA HISTORIA QUE MEZCLA REALIDAD Y FANTASÍA. ME HA GUSTADO.
8/ En la concavidad (John Varley)
Un turista en venus precisa de asistencia médica urgente a pesar de su escaso dinero. Por ello acude a una futura joven de la profesión, que es muy eficiente.
Una CURIOSA HISTORIA DE AMOR CON UN FONDO FUTURISTA MUY IMAGINATIVO. ENCANTADORA, ATMOSFÉRICA E INTIMISTA. ME HA GUSTADO MUCHO.
9/ Caleidoscopio (Ray Bradbury)
Los tripulantes de un cohete espacial, tras su estallido y desfragmentación, son lanzados al abismo. Ante el inminente desenlace , éstos repasan sus vidas y tratan de sincerarse.
Un relato CASI DE ESTILO POÉTICO, REFLEXIVO Y FILOSÓFICO. ESTÁ BIEN.
10/ Los anfibios (Kurt Vonnegut Jr)
Éste último que cierra la antología, nos narra la experiencia de la evolución de unos determinados humanos, que son dotados de cuerpos ‘anfibios’ temporales en posesión, una vez han salido del suyo própio permanentemente, y por lo tanto, dejan de ser únicamente materia.
El relato es una IRÓNICA REFLEXIÓN Y UNA CRITICA ACERCA DEL INDIVIDUO Y SU BIOLOGÍA (que no hace sino limitarnos y enfermarnos), además de su comportamiento en el plano social, material, sus fobias, miedos y rechazos; en el que siempre el poder lucha por controlar a todo y a todos. ME HA GUSTADO.
May 3, 2019
This is a long book, but it has some really great stories. My favorite of the whole book is "The Marching Morons," by C.M. Kornbluth, from which the movie"Idiocracy" was taken. Only 4 or 5 🌟 stories will be noted:
Angel's Egg, Edgar Pangborn
4 🌟
A retired biology professor, living in the country, gets a visitor in the nest of his old chicken. A little transparent egg hatches some days later and a little angel, very human-like, emerges. This retired human learns much about her Faraway planet, and why she is here.
Rescue Party, Arthur C. Clarke
4 🌟
Sol is going nova, and the supreme race of the universe has just 3 hours to try to rescue any Humans left on the already boiling Earth. Disaster very nearly strikes the rescuers when a small pilot ship surveys half of the planet, but just in the nick of time makes it out. They fear there are no survivors of the 3rd planet from the now-novaed sun.
All You Zombies, Robert A. Heinlein
4 🌟
"I'm my own Grandpa" plays on the jukebox in the bar in 1970 New York, where the Time Corps recruit their victims, er, I mean members.
The Human Operators, Harlan Ellison & A.E. Van Vogt
4 🌟
There were 99 ships and each ship had 1370 humans to complement each one. An electrical accident made one of the ships become self-aware. Now the ships rule and the human allowed to remain alive on each one is a slave. But the one human on this certain Starfighter ship remembers his father telling him "You have 98 other chances."
Poor Little Warrior, Brian Aldiss
5 🌟
From 2181, Claude Ford travels back in time to use his big guns to get him a brontosaurus, the peaceful, giant, non-threatening vegetarian. This creature is so big, that it's parasites have parasites, and that's what Claude Ford forgot to take into account.
When it Changed, Joanna Russ
4 🌟
Whileaway, the colonised planet, had a plague six hundred years in its past, which killed half the population. But life went on and the survivors learned to get along without the men. Then, one day, visitors came from Earth, and they wanted to take something, as if it was their right.
The Bicentennial Man, Isaac Asimov
5 🌟
Reading this gem of a story, I couldn't help but have Robin Williams in mind when I pictured the robot Andrew. But the story is actually quite different from the movie. It's the story of a robot whose positronic brain was an anomaly, even an unwanted mistake, as seen through the eyes of the U.S. Robotics Corp. His brain caused him to be more than a servant...he was an artist, author, inventor, and eventually, a man.
Hunting Machine, Carol Emschwiller
4 🌟
The future of hunting. It may be the future, but hunters haven't changed at all. Still vastly cowardly. These hunting packages have everything you need: self-heating food and drink packets, pocket self-inflating camping gear, and a mechanical"hound." I was disappointed with the ending, and if you read it, you might agree.
Light of Other Days, Bob Shaw
4 🌟
Love is a thin line, and can cross easily into hate. But witnessing heartbreaking loss on someone else's part may give you the selfish gift of crossing back over again.
The Marching Morons, C.M. Kornbluth
4 🌟
There is some eugenics going on here: the idea is that people with higher IQs didn't breed as much as those whose IQs were in the double digits. Over time, the population of DD IQs was in the billions while those with smarts were in the millions. Thus, smarter people were worked to the bone running the world so that the "marching morons" could live in oblivious luxury. The rip van Winkle real estate whiz that they dug up was going to solve the world's problems. First, they had to sell the idea of migrating to Venus.
The Women Men Don't See, James Tiptree Jr
5 🌟
"Women have no rights, Don, except what men allow us. Men are more aggressive and powerful and they run the world. When the next real crisis upsets them, our so-called rights will vanish like - like that smoke. We'll be back where we always were: property. And whatever has gone wrong will be blamed on our freedom, like the fall of Rome was. You'll see."
"What women do is to survive. We live by ones and twos in the chinks of your World -machine. think of us as opossums, Don. Did you know there are opossums living all over? Even in New York City. All the endless wars... all the huge authoritarian organizations for doing unreal things. Men live to struggle against each other; we're just part of the battlefields. It'll never change unless you change the whole world. I dream sometimes of--of going away..."
Poll for women: If you had the chance to go with an alien to their world, would you take it?
Yes: ✓
No:
Angel's Egg, Edgar Pangborn
4 🌟
A retired biology professor, living in the country, gets a visitor in the nest of his old chicken. A little transparent egg hatches some days later and a little angel, very human-like, emerges. This retired human learns much about her Faraway planet, and why she is here.
Rescue Party, Arthur C. Clarke
4 🌟
Sol is going nova, and the supreme race of the universe has just 3 hours to try to rescue any Humans left on the already boiling Earth. Disaster very nearly strikes the rescuers when a small pilot ship surveys half of the planet, but just in the nick of time makes it out. They fear there are no survivors of the 3rd planet from the now-novaed sun.
All You Zombies, Robert A. Heinlein
4 🌟
"I'm my own Grandpa" plays on the jukebox in the bar in 1970 New York, where the Time Corps recruit their victims, er, I mean members.
The Human Operators, Harlan Ellison & A.E. Van Vogt
4 🌟
There were 99 ships and each ship had 1370 humans to complement each one. An electrical accident made one of the ships become self-aware. Now the ships rule and the human allowed to remain alive on each one is a slave. But the one human on this certain Starfighter ship remembers his father telling him "You have 98 other chances."
Poor Little Warrior, Brian Aldiss
5 🌟
From 2181, Claude Ford travels back in time to use his big guns to get him a brontosaurus, the peaceful, giant, non-threatening vegetarian. This creature is so big, that it's parasites have parasites, and that's what Claude Ford forgot to take into account.
When it Changed, Joanna Russ
4 🌟
Whileaway, the colonised planet, had a plague six hundred years in its past, which killed half the population. But life went on and the survivors learned to get along without the men. Then, one day, visitors came from Earth, and they wanted to take something, as if it was their right.
The Bicentennial Man, Isaac Asimov
5 🌟
Reading this gem of a story, I couldn't help but have Robin Williams in mind when I pictured the robot Andrew. But the story is actually quite different from the movie. It's the story of a robot whose positronic brain was an anomaly, even an unwanted mistake, as seen through the eyes of the U.S. Robotics Corp. His brain caused him to be more than a servant...he was an artist, author, inventor, and eventually, a man.
Hunting Machine, Carol Emschwiller
4 🌟
The future of hunting. It may be the future, but hunters haven't changed at all. Still vastly cowardly. These hunting packages have everything you need: self-heating food and drink packets, pocket self-inflating camping gear, and a mechanical"hound." I was disappointed with the ending, and if you read it, you might agree.
Light of Other Days, Bob Shaw
4 🌟
Love is a thin line, and can cross easily into hate. But witnessing heartbreaking loss on someone else's part may give you the selfish gift of crossing back over again.
The Marching Morons, C.M. Kornbluth
4 🌟
There is some eugenics going on here: the idea is that people with higher IQs didn't breed as much as those whose IQs were in the double digits. Over time, the population of DD IQs was in the billions while those with smarts were in the millions. Thus, smarter people were worked to the bone running the world so that the "marching morons" could live in oblivious luxury. The rip van Winkle real estate whiz that they dug up was going to solve the world's problems. First, they had to sell the idea of migrating to Venus.
The Women Men Don't See, James Tiptree Jr
5 🌟
"Women have no rights, Don, except what men allow us. Men are more aggressive and powerful and they run the world. When the next real crisis upsets them, our so-called rights will vanish like - like that smoke. We'll be back where we always were: property. And whatever has gone wrong will be blamed on our freedom, like the fall of Rome was. You'll see."
"What women do is to survive. We live by ones and twos in the chinks of your World -machine. think of us as opossums, Don. Did you know there are opossums living all over? Even in New York City. All the endless wars... all the huge authoritarian organizations for doing unreal things. Men live to struggle against each other; we're just part of the battlefields. It'll never change unless you change the whole world. I dream sometimes of--of going away..."
Poll for women: If you had the chance to go with an alien to their world, would you take it?
Yes: ✓
No:
August 2, 2022
THE ARBOR HOUSE TREASURY OF MODERN SCENCE FICTION
RATED 94% POSITIVE. STORY SCORE = 4.18 OF 5
39 STORIES : 12 GREAT / 22 GOOD / 5 AVERAGE / 0 POOR / 0 DNF
Robert Silverberg and Martin Greenberg had extremely high aspirations with this anthology. They intended this book to be a successor to “Adventures in Time and Space,” an anthology considered by many to be the greatest collection of Science Fiction of its era.
And they were very successful. This is a very large anthology that is packed with exceptional SF from some of the biggest names in the genre’s history. Only 5 stories clocked as average and there were no bad stories in the book. This is anthology that is definitely worth picking up if you can find a copy.
A whopping 12 stories were added to the All Time Great List:
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Angel's Egg • (1951) • novelette by Edgar Pangborn. A beautiful and hopeful epistolary story about a man who is mentored towards goodness by an alien that hatches in his backyard.
Alpha Ralpha Boulevard • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith. In the richly imagined and baroque future universe that Smith called the “Instrumentality of Mankind,” two people embrace their chance to ‘live free’ by taking a dangerous journey to ask an AI questions about love. Confoundingly original at times. This is a wild, cluttered story worth multiple reads.
"All You Zombies—" • (1959) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein (variant of "All You Zombies ..."). One of the truly iconic time travel loop stories. I won’t say more….
Child's Play • [Child's Play • 1] • (1947) • novelette by William Tenn. A deliciously wicked “twilight zone - style” story about a man who finds a Build-A-Man box show up accidentally.
Kaleidoscope • (1949) • short story by Ray Bradbury. Tragic, painful, and undeniably human. The final conversations of astronauts lost in space after an accident dredge the raw feelings of lost opportunities, seething angry, and unfinished business. A work of beauty.
The Gift of Gab • (1955) • novella by Jack Vance. Mineral prospectors float across a planet with shallow seas … and start dying as they are pulled over by something below. Meanwhile, one of the crew is starting to suspect that the inhabitants of the sea - seal like animals with ten small arms - may be intelligent, but not the kind of intelligence we are used to. Even if so, why have they now started to strike back.
The Man Who Never Grew Young • (1947) • short story by Fritz Leiber. Transcendent and profound. A man who never ages talks about a world where time reversed around World War 2. This is a piece of melancholy poetry. I can’t stop wanting to reread about this strange world where time runs backwards. If fiction’s purpose is to make us see the world differently, few stories have ever done it as well as this beautiful tale.
The Bicentennial Man • (1976) • novelette by Isaac Asimov. One of Asimov’s masterpieces. This tale of a robot with a special brain who struggles for years with the right to be human. Not only inventive and clever - like all of Asimov’s work - but this is human and emotional in a way that he could rarely grasp.
Light of Other Days • [Slow Glass] • (1966) • short story by Bob Shaw. This is a delicate heart-rending tale of a couple who stop to buy ‘slow glass’ which allow the viewer to see past moment. A true classic
Stranger Station • (1956) • novelette by Damon Knight. On a space station, a man and an alien suffer because of the other’s presence. Slowly, the man starts to understand why.
The Women Men Don't See • (1973) • novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.. On a trip to Mexico, a small airplane crash lands. The main character - a man - gets to know two women who have very interesting ideas about the interplay between men and women. When strange beings arrive, things take a strange turn.
The Queen of Air and Darkness • [The Queen of Air and Darkness] • (1971) • novella by Poul Anderson. A compelling mystery quest into the collapse of reason and legend. A child is stolen by the indigenous beings of a frontier colonized planet, but no contact has yet been made with them and their very nature sounds mythological. Quietly enthralling.
***
39 STORIES : 12 GREAT / 22 GOOD / 5 AVERAGE / 0 POOR / 0 DNF
Angel's Egg • (1951) • novelette by Edgar Pangborn
Great. A beautiful and hopeful epistolary story about a man who is mentored towards goodness by an alien that hatches in his backyard.
Rescue Party • (1946) • novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
Average. As the earth’s sun is going nova, aliens arrived to help rescue humanity. Except, there is no humanity on the planet to rescue. A rather plodding mystery with a nice whip crack of a final paragraph.
Shape • (1953) • short story by Robert Sheckley
Good. The Grom are trying to invade earth, but all their explorers go missing. The story follows a party that discovers why. An interesting celebration of human diversity and criticism of conformity.
Alpha Ralpha Boulevard • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
Great. In the richly imagined and baroque future universe that Smith called the “Instrumentality of Mankind,” two people embrace their chance to ‘live free’ by taking a dangerous journey to ask an AI questions about love. Confoundingly original at times. This is a wild, cluttered story worth multiple reads.
Winter's King • [Hainish] • (1969) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
Average. Poetic writing in the service of a rather simple story about a King who has had their mind corrupted by an enemy. They must go off world to be healed and time dilation means that their return is complicated by radical changes in ages of the principals. Feels like fantasy in the storytelling although it is certainly science fiction.
Or All the Seas with Oysters • (1958) • short story by Avram Davidson
Good. A bicycle shop owner and his playboy partner start to speculate about what kinds of life might be hiding in plain sight.
Common Time • (1953) • short story by James Blish
Good. Something goes wrong for our protagonist during an interstellar faster than light journey. He starts to experience time at an extremely low pace. A cool idea, written in creatively hip and unconventional prose. Doesn’t quite work at the end for me, but worth the read.
When You Care, When You Love • (1962) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
Good. An ultra wealthy woman is obsessed with recreating her dead lover - by any means necessary. Lots of sci-fi mumbo-jumbo here, but it hangs together just long enough to get to the end of the story.
The Shadow of Space • (1967) • novelette by Philip José Farmer
Good. A weird bit of space opera in which a spaceship ends up outside of the universe and the size of an atom. Plus a giant naked woman floating in space.
"All You Zombies—" • (1959) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein (variant of "All You Zombies ...")
Great. One of the truly iconic time travel loop stories. I won’t say more….
I'm Scared • (1951) • short story by Jack Finney
Good. Not really a story as much as a thought experiment and the foundation of a political/social screed. It is truly shocking how much of this is absolutely the same as the feeling in 2022.
Child's Play • [Child's Play • 1] • (1947) • novelette by William Tenn
Great. A deliciously wicked “twilight zone - style” story about a man who finds a Build-A-Man box show up accidentally.
Grandpa • [The Hub] • (1955) • novelette by James H. Schmitz
Good. A young man - a troublemaker on a new world - must rise to the occasion when a semi-sentient large raft starts behaving in new and dangerous ways.
Private Eye • (1950) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
Good. In the future, an all-seeing eye can rewatch anything up to 50 years in the past as part of a criminal investigation. One man believes that he can beat the system and commit murder.
Sundance • (1969) • short story by Robert Silverberg
Good. A Native American starts to have second thoughts when it appears that the world he’s doing may be exterminating sentient life.
In the Bowl • [Eight Worlds] • (1975) • novelette by John Varley
Good. A traveler to Venus meets a 11 year old girl and goes on a quest across the surface to gather blast jewels. The young woman has been emancipated legally and is looking for a way off planet. This is tightly written, good characters, nice sense of wonder, and adventure. It is harmed by some icky stuff about romantic relationships between children and adults.
Kaleidoscope • (1949) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Great. Tragic, painful, and undeniably human. The final conversations of astronauts lost in space after an accident dredge the raw feelings of lost opportunities, seething angry, and unfinished business. A work of beauty.
Unready to Wear • (1953) • short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Good. People have found away to intentionally step out of their bodies and no longer are bound by the passions of the flesh. There is conflict between these “amphibians” and people who believe that it is cowardly and immoral to do this.
Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night • (1961) • novelette by Algis Budrys
Average. Corporate intrigue, assassination, subterfuge, in a story that never quite came together for me.
Day Million • (1966) • short story by Frederik Pohl
Good. A snarky, tongue-in-cheek tale of dating and society a million days in our future.
Hobson's Choice • (1952) • short story by Alfred Bester
Good. In a war-torn future, the population should be declining, but a statistician discovers that it is actual growing thanks so something strange happening in Kansas. A very clever story
The Gift of Gab • (1955) • novella by Jack Vance
Great. Mineral prospectors float across a planet with shallow seas … and start dying as they are pulled over by something below. Meanwhile, one of the crew is starting to suspect that the inhabitants of the sea - seal like animals with ten small arms - may be intelligent, but not the kind of intelligence we are used to. Even if so, why have they now started to strike back.
The Man Who Never Grew Young • (1947) • short story by Fritz Leiber
Great. Transcendent and profound. A man who never ages talks about a world where time reversed around World War 2. This is a piece of melancholy poetry. I can’t stop wanting to reread about this strange world where time runs backwards. If fiction’s purpose is to make us see the world differently, few stories have ever done it as well as this beautiful tale.
Neutron Star • [Known Space] • (1966) • novelette by Larry Niven
Good. A man is sent to investigate the deaths of two crew members of a spaceship circling a neutron star in this smart hard-sf story.
Impostor • (1953) • short story by Philip K. Dick
Good. A fun and paranoid bit on intrigue. A man working on a weapon to fight the aliens is accused of being an impostor who can destroy everything with a catch phrase. He resisted, but he might not even know what he really is.
The Human Operators • (1971) • novelette by Harlan Ellison and A. E. van Vogt
Good. 100 spaceships revolted against their human masters, keeping one young human per ship as a slave to do repairs. When one of these young man meets a young woman from another ship for procreation, opportunities to resist arise.
Poor Little Warrior! • (1958) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss
Average. A man from the future is hunting a herbivore dinosaur in the past, but he hasn’t thought out all the risks that might exist.
When It Changed • [Whileaway] • (1972) • short story by Joanna Russ
Good. On a world made up of only women, men have finally arrived and they pose a creeping threat.
The Bicentennial Man • (1976) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
Great. One of Asimov’s masterpieces. This tale of a robot with a special brain who struggles for years with the right to be human. Not only inventive and clever - like all of Asimov’s work - but this is human and emotional in a way that he could rarely grasp.
Hunting Machine • (1957) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
Good. The use of specialize robots on a hunting(poaching?) mission.
Light of Other Days • [Slow Glass] • (1966) • short story by Bob Shaw
Great. This is a delicate heart-rending tale of a couple who stop to buy ‘slow glass’ which allow the viewer to see past moment. A true classic
The Keys to December • (1966) • novelette by Roger Zelazny
Good. A group of people customized to work on another planet (Catform) run into terraforming complications when the planet they are changing may have intelligent life.
Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand • [Snake] • (1973) • novelette by Vonda N. McIntyre
Good. A good character study of a woman who uses trained snakes for healing in a strange world that feels either alien or dystopia.
A Galaxy Called Rome • (1975) • novelette by Barry N. Malzberg
Good. A interesting meta-fiction about a writing a science fiction story about a spaceship that flies into a blackhole with frozen dead to resurrect.
Stranger Station • (1956) • novelette by Damon Knight
Great. On a space station, a man and an alien suffer because of the other’s presence. Slowly, the man starts to understand why.
The Time of His Life • (1968) • short story by Larry Eisenberg
Average. Pleasant, yet disposable, story of a scientist over-shadowed by his father who has now discovered a way to manipulate aging.
The Marching Morons • (1951) • novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
Good. The movie “Idiocracy” owes royalty money to this tale where a man awakens into a world where the morons have outbred the smart people. It is quite fun but has a dark edge to it.
The Women Men Don't See • (1973) • novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
Great. On a trip to Mexico, a small airplane crash lands. The main character - a man - gets to know two women who have very interesting ideas about the interplay between men and women. When strange beings arrive, things take a strange turn.
The Queen of Air and Darkness • [The Queen of Air and Darkness] • (1971) • novella by Poul Anderson
Great. A compelling mystery quest into the collapse of reason and legend. A child is stolen by the indigenous beings of a frontier colonized planet, but no contact has yet been made with them and their very nature sounds mythological. Quietly enthralling.
RATED 94% POSITIVE. STORY SCORE = 4.18 OF 5
39 STORIES : 12 GREAT / 22 GOOD / 5 AVERAGE / 0 POOR / 0 DNF
Robert Silverberg and Martin Greenberg had extremely high aspirations with this anthology. They intended this book to be a successor to “Adventures in Time and Space,” an anthology considered by many to be the greatest collection of Science Fiction of its era.
And they were very successful. This is a very large anthology that is packed with exceptional SF from some of the biggest names in the genre’s history. Only 5 stories clocked as average and there were no bad stories in the book. This is anthology that is definitely worth picking up if you can find a copy.
A whopping 12 stories were added to the All Time Great List:
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Angel's Egg • (1951) • novelette by Edgar Pangborn. A beautiful and hopeful epistolary story about a man who is mentored towards goodness by an alien that hatches in his backyard.
Alpha Ralpha Boulevard • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith. In the richly imagined and baroque future universe that Smith called the “Instrumentality of Mankind,” two people embrace their chance to ‘live free’ by taking a dangerous journey to ask an AI questions about love. Confoundingly original at times. This is a wild, cluttered story worth multiple reads.
"All You Zombies—" • (1959) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein (variant of "All You Zombies ..."). One of the truly iconic time travel loop stories. I won’t say more….
Child's Play • [Child's Play • 1] • (1947) • novelette by William Tenn. A deliciously wicked “twilight zone - style” story about a man who finds a Build-A-Man box show up accidentally.
Kaleidoscope • (1949) • short story by Ray Bradbury. Tragic, painful, and undeniably human. The final conversations of astronauts lost in space after an accident dredge the raw feelings of lost opportunities, seething angry, and unfinished business. A work of beauty.
The Gift of Gab • (1955) • novella by Jack Vance. Mineral prospectors float across a planet with shallow seas … and start dying as they are pulled over by something below. Meanwhile, one of the crew is starting to suspect that the inhabitants of the sea - seal like animals with ten small arms - may be intelligent, but not the kind of intelligence we are used to. Even if so, why have they now started to strike back.
The Man Who Never Grew Young • (1947) • short story by Fritz Leiber. Transcendent and profound. A man who never ages talks about a world where time reversed around World War 2. This is a piece of melancholy poetry. I can’t stop wanting to reread about this strange world where time runs backwards. If fiction’s purpose is to make us see the world differently, few stories have ever done it as well as this beautiful tale.
The Bicentennial Man • (1976) • novelette by Isaac Asimov. One of Asimov’s masterpieces. This tale of a robot with a special brain who struggles for years with the right to be human. Not only inventive and clever - like all of Asimov’s work - but this is human and emotional in a way that he could rarely grasp.
Light of Other Days • [Slow Glass] • (1966) • short story by Bob Shaw. This is a delicate heart-rending tale of a couple who stop to buy ‘slow glass’ which allow the viewer to see past moment. A true classic
Stranger Station • (1956) • novelette by Damon Knight. On a space station, a man and an alien suffer because of the other’s presence. Slowly, the man starts to understand why.
The Women Men Don't See • (1973) • novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.. On a trip to Mexico, a small airplane crash lands. The main character - a man - gets to know two women who have very interesting ideas about the interplay between men and women. When strange beings arrive, things take a strange turn.
The Queen of Air and Darkness • [The Queen of Air and Darkness] • (1971) • novella by Poul Anderson. A compelling mystery quest into the collapse of reason and legend. A child is stolen by the indigenous beings of a frontier colonized planet, but no contact has yet been made with them and their very nature sounds mythological. Quietly enthralling.
***
39 STORIES : 12 GREAT / 22 GOOD / 5 AVERAGE / 0 POOR / 0 DNF
Angel's Egg • (1951) • novelette by Edgar Pangborn
Great. A beautiful and hopeful epistolary story about a man who is mentored towards goodness by an alien that hatches in his backyard.
Rescue Party • (1946) • novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
Average. As the earth’s sun is going nova, aliens arrived to help rescue humanity. Except, there is no humanity on the planet to rescue. A rather plodding mystery with a nice whip crack of a final paragraph.
Shape • (1953) • short story by Robert Sheckley
Good. The Grom are trying to invade earth, but all their explorers go missing. The story follows a party that discovers why. An interesting celebration of human diversity and criticism of conformity.
Alpha Ralpha Boulevard • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
Great. In the richly imagined and baroque future universe that Smith called the “Instrumentality of Mankind,” two people embrace their chance to ‘live free’ by taking a dangerous journey to ask an AI questions about love. Confoundingly original at times. This is a wild, cluttered story worth multiple reads.
Winter's King • [Hainish] • (1969) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
Average. Poetic writing in the service of a rather simple story about a King who has had their mind corrupted by an enemy. They must go off world to be healed and time dilation means that their return is complicated by radical changes in ages of the principals. Feels like fantasy in the storytelling although it is certainly science fiction.
Or All the Seas with Oysters • (1958) • short story by Avram Davidson
Good. A bicycle shop owner and his playboy partner start to speculate about what kinds of life might be hiding in plain sight.
Common Time • (1953) • short story by James Blish
Good. Something goes wrong for our protagonist during an interstellar faster than light journey. He starts to experience time at an extremely low pace. A cool idea, written in creatively hip and unconventional prose. Doesn’t quite work at the end for me, but worth the read.
When You Care, When You Love • (1962) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
Good. An ultra wealthy woman is obsessed with recreating her dead lover - by any means necessary. Lots of sci-fi mumbo-jumbo here, but it hangs together just long enough to get to the end of the story.
The Shadow of Space • (1967) • novelette by Philip José Farmer
Good. A weird bit of space opera in which a spaceship ends up outside of the universe and the size of an atom. Plus a giant naked woman floating in space.
"All You Zombies—" • (1959) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein (variant of "All You Zombies ...")
Great. One of the truly iconic time travel loop stories. I won’t say more….
I'm Scared • (1951) • short story by Jack Finney
Good. Not really a story as much as a thought experiment and the foundation of a political/social screed. It is truly shocking how much of this is absolutely the same as the feeling in 2022.
Child's Play • [Child's Play • 1] • (1947) • novelette by William Tenn
Great. A deliciously wicked “twilight zone - style” story about a man who finds a Build-A-Man box show up accidentally.
Grandpa • [The Hub] • (1955) • novelette by James H. Schmitz
Good. A young man - a troublemaker on a new world - must rise to the occasion when a semi-sentient large raft starts behaving in new and dangerous ways.
Private Eye • (1950) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
Good. In the future, an all-seeing eye can rewatch anything up to 50 years in the past as part of a criminal investigation. One man believes that he can beat the system and commit murder.
Sundance • (1969) • short story by Robert Silverberg
Good. A Native American starts to have second thoughts when it appears that the world he’s doing may be exterminating sentient life.
In the Bowl • [Eight Worlds] • (1975) • novelette by John Varley
Good. A traveler to Venus meets a 11 year old girl and goes on a quest across the surface to gather blast jewels. The young woman has been emancipated legally and is looking for a way off planet. This is tightly written, good characters, nice sense of wonder, and adventure. It is harmed by some icky stuff about romantic relationships between children and adults.
Kaleidoscope • (1949) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Great. Tragic, painful, and undeniably human. The final conversations of astronauts lost in space after an accident dredge the raw feelings of lost opportunities, seething angry, and unfinished business. A work of beauty.
Unready to Wear • (1953) • short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Good. People have found away to intentionally step out of their bodies and no longer are bound by the passions of the flesh. There is conflict between these “amphibians” and people who believe that it is cowardly and immoral to do this.
Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night • (1961) • novelette by Algis Budrys
Average. Corporate intrigue, assassination, subterfuge, in a story that never quite came together for me.
Day Million • (1966) • short story by Frederik Pohl
Good. A snarky, tongue-in-cheek tale of dating and society a million days in our future.
Hobson's Choice • (1952) • short story by Alfred Bester
Good. In a war-torn future, the population should be declining, but a statistician discovers that it is actual growing thanks so something strange happening in Kansas. A very clever story
The Gift of Gab • (1955) • novella by Jack Vance
Great. Mineral prospectors float across a planet with shallow seas … and start dying as they are pulled over by something below. Meanwhile, one of the crew is starting to suspect that the inhabitants of the sea - seal like animals with ten small arms - may be intelligent, but not the kind of intelligence we are used to. Even if so, why have they now started to strike back.
The Man Who Never Grew Young • (1947) • short story by Fritz Leiber
Great. Transcendent and profound. A man who never ages talks about a world where time reversed around World War 2. This is a piece of melancholy poetry. I can’t stop wanting to reread about this strange world where time runs backwards. If fiction’s purpose is to make us see the world differently, few stories have ever done it as well as this beautiful tale.
Neutron Star • [Known Space] • (1966) • novelette by Larry Niven
Good. A man is sent to investigate the deaths of two crew members of a spaceship circling a neutron star in this smart hard-sf story.
Impostor • (1953) • short story by Philip K. Dick
Good. A fun and paranoid bit on intrigue. A man working on a weapon to fight the aliens is accused of being an impostor who can destroy everything with a catch phrase. He resisted, but he might not even know what he really is.
The Human Operators • (1971) • novelette by Harlan Ellison and A. E. van Vogt
Good. 100 spaceships revolted against their human masters, keeping one young human per ship as a slave to do repairs. When one of these young man meets a young woman from another ship for procreation, opportunities to resist arise.
Poor Little Warrior! • (1958) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss
Average. A man from the future is hunting a herbivore dinosaur in the past, but he hasn’t thought out all the risks that might exist.
When It Changed • [Whileaway] • (1972) • short story by Joanna Russ
Good. On a world made up of only women, men have finally arrived and they pose a creeping threat.
The Bicentennial Man • (1976) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
Great. One of Asimov’s masterpieces. This tale of a robot with a special brain who struggles for years with the right to be human. Not only inventive and clever - like all of Asimov’s work - but this is human and emotional in a way that he could rarely grasp.
Hunting Machine • (1957) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
Good. The use of specialize robots on a hunting(poaching?) mission.
Light of Other Days • [Slow Glass] • (1966) • short story by Bob Shaw
Great. This is a delicate heart-rending tale of a couple who stop to buy ‘slow glass’ which allow the viewer to see past moment. A true classic
The Keys to December • (1966) • novelette by Roger Zelazny
Good. A group of people customized to work on another planet (Catform) run into terraforming complications when the planet they are changing may have intelligent life.
Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand • [Snake] • (1973) • novelette by Vonda N. McIntyre
Good. A good character study of a woman who uses trained snakes for healing in a strange world that feels either alien or dystopia.
A Galaxy Called Rome • (1975) • novelette by Barry N. Malzberg
Good. A interesting meta-fiction about a writing a science fiction story about a spaceship that flies into a blackhole with frozen dead to resurrect.
Stranger Station • (1956) • novelette by Damon Knight
Great. On a space station, a man and an alien suffer because of the other’s presence. Slowly, the man starts to understand why.
The Time of His Life • (1968) • short story by Larry Eisenberg
Average. Pleasant, yet disposable, story of a scientist over-shadowed by his father who has now discovered a way to manipulate aging.
The Marching Morons • (1951) • novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
Good. The movie “Idiocracy” owes royalty money to this tale where a man awakens into a world where the morons have outbred the smart people. It is quite fun but has a dark edge to it.
The Women Men Don't See • (1973) • novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
Great. On a trip to Mexico, a small airplane crash lands. The main character - a man - gets to know two women who have very interesting ideas about the interplay between men and women. When strange beings arrive, things take a strange turn.
The Queen of Air and Darkness • [The Queen of Air and Darkness] • (1971) • novella by Poul Anderson
Great. A compelling mystery quest into the collapse of reason and legend. A child is stolen by the indigenous beings of a frontier colonized planet, but no contact has yet been made with them and their very nature sounds mythological. Quietly enthralling.
December 31, 2022
⭐⭐⭐ Angel's Egg EDGAR PANGBORN
⭐⭐⭐ Rescue Party ARTHUR C. CLARKE
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Shape ROBERT SHECKLEY
⭐⭐⭐ Alpha Ralpha Boulevard CORDWAINER SMITH
⭐⭐⭐ Winter's King URSULA K. LE GUIN
⭐⭐⭐ Or All the Seas with Oysters AVRAM DAVIDSON
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Common Time JAMES BLISH
⭐⭐⭐⭐ When You Care, When You Love THEODORE STURGEON
⭐⭐⭐ The Shadow of Space PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER
⭐⭐⭐⭐ "All You Zombies—" ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
⭐⭐⭐⭐ I'm Scared JACK FINNEY
⭐⭐⭐ Child's Play WILLIAM TENN
⭐⭐ Grandpa JAMES H. SCHMITZ
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Private Eye HENRY KUTTNER / C. L. MOORE
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sundance ROBERT SILVERBERG
⭐⭐ In the Bowl JOHN VARLEY
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Kaleidoscope RAY BRADBURY
⭐⭐⭐ Unready to Wear KURT VONNEGUT, JR.
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night ALGIS BUDRYS
⭐⭐⭐ Day Million FREDERIK POHL
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hobson's Choice ALFRED BESTER
⭐⭐⭐ The Gift of Gab JACK VANCE
⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Man Who Never Grew Young FRITZ LEIBER
⭐⭐⭐ Neutron Star LARRY NIVEN
⭐⭐⭐ Impostor PHILIP K. DICK
⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Human Operators HARLAN ELLISON / A. E. VAN VOGT
⭐⭐⭐ Poor Little Warrior! BRIAN W. ALDISS
⭐⭐⭐ When It Changed JOANNA RUSS
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Bicentennial Man ISAAC ASIMOV
⭐⭐ Hunting Machine CAROL EMSHWILLER
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Light of Other Days BOB SHAW
⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Keys to December ROGER ZELAZNY
⭐⭐⭐ Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand VONDA N. MCINTYRE
⭐⭐⭐ A Galaxy Called Rome BARRY N. MALZBERG
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Stranger Station DAMON KNIGHT
⭐⭐⭐ The Time of His Life LARRY EISENBERG
⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Marching Morons C. M. KORNBLUTH
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Women Men Don't See JAMES TIPTREE, JR.
⭐⭐⭐ The Queen of Air and Darkness POUL ANDERSON
⭐⭐⭐ Rescue Party ARTHUR C. CLARKE
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Shape ROBERT SHECKLEY
⭐⭐⭐ Alpha Ralpha Boulevard CORDWAINER SMITH
⭐⭐⭐ Winter's King URSULA K. LE GUIN
⭐⭐⭐ Or All the Seas with Oysters AVRAM DAVIDSON
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Common Time JAMES BLISH
⭐⭐⭐⭐ When You Care, When You Love THEODORE STURGEON
⭐⭐⭐ The Shadow of Space PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER
⭐⭐⭐⭐ "All You Zombies—" ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
⭐⭐⭐⭐ I'm Scared JACK FINNEY
⭐⭐⭐ Child's Play WILLIAM TENN
⭐⭐ Grandpa JAMES H. SCHMITZ
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Private Eye HENRY KUTTNER / C. L. MOORE
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sundance ROBERT SILVERBERG
⭐⭐ In the Bowl JOHN VARLEY
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Kaleidoscope RAY BRADBURY
⭐⭐⭐ Unready to Wear KURT VONNEGUT, JR.
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night ALGIS BUDRYS
⭐⭐⭐ Day Million FREDERIK POHL
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hobson's Choice ALFRED BESTER
⭐⭐⭐ The Gift of Gab JACK VANCE
⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Man Who Never Grew Young FRITZ LEIBER
⭐⭐⭐ Neutron Star LARRY NIVEN
⭐⭐⭐ Impostor PHILIP K. DICK
⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Human Operators HARLAN ELLISON / A. E. VAN VOGT
⭐⭐⭐ Poor Little Warrior! BRIAN W. ALDISS
⭐⭐⭐ When It Changed JOANNA RUSS
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Bicentennial Man ISAAC ASIMOV
⭐⭐ Hunting Machine CAROL EMSHWILLER
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Light of Other Days BOB SHAW
⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Keys to December ROGER ZELAZNY
⭐⭐⭐ Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand VONDA N. MCINTYRE
⭐⭐⭐ A Galaxy Called Rome BARRY N. MALZBERG
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Stranger Station DAMON KNIGHT
⭐⭐⭐ The Time of His Life LARRY EISENBERG
⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Marching Morons C. M. KORNBLUTH
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Women Men Don't See JAMES TIPTREE, JR.
⭐⭐⭐ The Queen of Air and Darkness POUL ANDERSON
September 20, 2021
A very entertaining anthology of science fiction short stories from the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s. Some of my favorites were "Queen of Air and Darkness" by Poul Anderson, about mythology, magic, archetypes and ideology; "Impostor," a Philip K Dick journey into paranoia and the question of identity and reality; "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ, examining the uneasy relationship between men and women, as well as the collision of two alien cultures; "Light of Other Days," Bob Shaw's ingenious and insightful use of his own sf concept of slow glass; "Stranger Station" by Damon Knight, also about a first contact with an alien species and the horrific sense of other-ness; CM Kornbluth's classic "The Marching Morons," about a future in which the the idiots are far in the majority (Future??); Cordwainer Smith's highly imaginative "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard;" and Avram Davidson's simultaneously paranoid and comic "Or All the Seas with Oysters."
July 16, 2022
An anthology of 39 science fiction short stories edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg. The editors’ goal was to produce an anthology like Adventures in Time and Space or The Best of Science Fiction which collected the best short fiction before 1946 but to cover the years 1946-1976.
Most of of the stories are classics but some have lost their magic in the last forty years. It’s a shame that this anthology is out of print.
Most of of the stories are classics but some have lost their magic in the last forty years. It’s a shame that this anthology is out of print.
December 15, 2021
60s sci-fi, but not the good stuff.
January 7, 2024
En conjunto es una buena selección, se nota que es traducción de una americana, aunque hay algunos relatos que solo se dejan leer.
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February 23, 2011
Nice mix of true classics, mainly hard sf with an emphasis on the psychological. Some favorites: "Rescue Party" by Arthur C. Clarke, "Common Time" by James Blish, "All You Zombies--" by Robert Heinlein, "Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night" by Algis Budrys, "Unready to Wear" by Kurt Vonnegut, "Impostor" by Philip K Dick, "Neutron Star" by Larry Niven, "Stranger Station" by Damon Knight, and "The Marching Morons" by C.M. Kornbluth.
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February 6, 2008Many stories. Good quality.
February 25, 2013
A terrific sample of short stories ranging from the late 40s to the 70s. A well rounded mixture from authors as diverse as Larry Niven to James Triptree Jr,.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
September 11, 2014
Love it, this book not only had a good mix of stories, but they were all really good ones. There were a couple of duds but the rest were a pleasure.
December 1, 2014
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