Chrysalis 5

Chrysalis (Roy Torgeson) #5

by Roy Torgeson (Editor / Contributor), Hilbert Schenck (Contributor), Alan Ryan (Contributor)

Contents
Introduction (Chrysalis 5) • essay by Roy Torgeson
Adagio and Benediction • short story by Orson Scott Card
Returning to Center • short story by Susan Janice Anderson
And Weary of the Sun • novelette by Charles L. Grant
Wave Rider • short story by Hilbert Schenck
Sheets • short story by Alan Ryan
My Father's Head • novelette by Timothy Robert Sullivan
Portrait for a Blind Man • short story by Karl Hansen
Nightbird at the Window • short story by Pat Murphy
Comets and Kings • shortstory by S.P. Somtow [as by Somtow Sucharitkul]
All the Stage, A World • short story by David Bischoff [as by David F. Bischoff]
The Faces of Men • novelette by Glenn Chang
Reading Day • short story by Barry N. Malzberg [as by Barry Malzberg] and Bill Pronzini
A Long, Bright Day by the Sea of Utner • short story by Cherry Wilder
Gods in the Fire, Gods in the Rain • novelette by Jay A. Parry

Genres: Science Fiction

288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published September 1, 1979

Reviews

[Saul · Rating 2 out of 5]

Perhaps these stories are just over my head, but they didn't come off as SF to me. Sadly, I didn't enjoy this very much. It seems to be a New Wave anthology that just doesn't quite work. More like fiction, with some aspects having to do with the future.