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Son Of The Morning
1 • Tauf Aleph • (1981) • novelette
22 • Sunday's Child • (1977) • novella
65 • The Military Hospital • (1971) • short story
80 • Gingerbread Boy • (1961) • short story
95 • Blue Apes • (1981) • novelette
131 • Phantom Foot • (1959) • short story
148 • A Grain of Manhood • (1959) • short story
160 • Ms & Mr Frankenstein • (1975) • poem
164 • Was/Man • (1978) • poem
166 • Son of the Morning • (1972) • novella
22 • Sunday's Child • (1977) • novella
65 • The Military Hospital • (1971) • short story
80 • Gingerbread Boy • (1961) • short story
95 • Blue Apes • (1981) • novelette
131 • Phantom Foot • (1959) • short story
148 • A Grain of Manhood • (1959) • short story
160 • Ms & Mr Frankenstein • (1975) • poem
164 • Was/Man • (1978) • poem
166 • Son of the Morning • (1972) • novella
240 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 1, 1983
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About the author
Phyllis Gotlieb
57 books25 followersPhyllis Fay Gotlieb, née Bloom, BA, MA was a Canadian science fiction novelist and poet.
The Sunburst Award is named for her first novel, Sunburst. Three years before Sunburst was published, Gotlieb published the pamphlet Who Knows One, a collection of poems. Gotlieb won the Aurora Award for Best Novel in 1982 for her novel A Judgement of Dragons.
She was married to Calvin Gotlieb, a computer science professor, and lived in Toronto, Ontario.
The Sunburst Award is named for her first novel, Sunburst. Three years before Sunburst was published, Gotlieb published the pamphlet Who Knows One, a collection of poems. Gotlieb won the Aurora Award for Best Novel in 1982 for her novel A Judgement of Dragons.
She was married to Calvin Gotlieb, a computer science professor, and lived in Toronto, Ontario.
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September 26, 2014
I'm not a big fan of short stories, but I must say that Phyllis Gotlieb has managed to pull me in to her stories very quickly. She has a nice style about her and her stories were interesting and each different and unique in its own right. Highly recommended.
December 28, 2024
Son of the Morning, published in 1983, was Phyllis Gotlieb's first volume of short stories. The stories are dated between 1959 and 1981, so Gotlieb wasn't a prolific writer in this form.
O Master Caliban!, published in 1976, was the first of Gotlieb's novels definitely belonging to the GalFed universe. Nevertheless, the earliest of the stories, "Phantom Foot," from 1959, involves the alien Qumedni, who will be part of the GalFed universe through to the end of the Lyhhrt Trilogy—"Phantom Foot," by the way, is also notable for containing an account of humans playing magnetic Go in a spaceship. "Tauf Aleph" and the title story, "Son of the Morning," present a GalFed in which Jewish culture has survived—the latter was published also as the first novella of A Judgment of Dragons. "Sunday's Child" connects to GalFed via Birthstones, and "Blue Apes" is certainly situated in GalFed. The remaining few stories may well belong to the GalFed universe, though no direct connection exists.
Gotlieb was a poet before becoming a science fiction writer after a period of writer's block for her poetry. Son of the Morning includes two science fiction or fantasy poems, "ms & mr frankenstein" and "was/man." Both poems are darkly humourous. The latter is about a werewolf, and includes the lines,
Gotlieb finally overcame her writer's block in poetry when her saurian Khagodi judge in Flesh and Gold bursts into haiku-like poetry. As Gotlieb says in an interview in Challenging Destiny by James Schellenberg and David M. Switzer in 1999, "Then my aliens started to write poetry, so I thought, 'That takes care of that.' I like to make up songs, and throw them in. It just got subsumed, or absorbed."
Gotlieb's stories are snapshots of the lives of ordinary people, whether human, alien, or android. Gotlieb's writing has a literary flavour and a social approach. Some of the stories carry considerable emotional charge. "Gingerbread Boy," for example, is a sad tale about fully sentient androids, who think like humans, but who struggle to accept that physically they are not completely human.
Gotlieb expresses difficult aspects of the human condition through her aliens and androids as well as her Solthree humans. Her writing is brilliant, unusual, and challenging. Son of the Morning is an excellent introduction to her work.
O Master Caliban!, published in 1976, was the first of Gotlieb's novels definitely belonging to the GalFed universe. Nevertheless, the earliest of the stories, "Phantom Foot," from 1959, involves the alien Qumedni, who will be part of the GalFed universe through to the end of the Lyhhrt Trilogy—"Phantom Foot," by the way, is also notable for containing an account of humans playing magnetic Go in a spaceship. "Tauf Aleph" and the title story, "Son of the Morning," present a GalFed in which Jewish culture has survived—the latter was published also as the first novella of A Judgment of Dragons. "Sunday's Child" connects to GalFed via Birthstones, and "Blue Apes" is certainly situated in GalFed. The remaining few stories may well belong to the GalFed universe, though no direct connection exists.
Gotlieb was a poet before becoming a science fiction writer after a period of writer's block for her poetry. Son of the Morning includes two science fiction or fantasy poems, "ms & mr frankenstein" and "was/man." Both poems are darkly humourous. The latter is about a werewolf, and includes the lines,
he enjoyed
a few cigarillos, and whiskey in moderation
girls who didn't mind the hairy type liked him. he never
bit them, just grizzled a little.
Gotlieb finally overcame her writer's block in poetry when her saurian Khagodi judge in Flesh and Gold bursts into haiku-like poetry. As Gotlieb says in an interview in Challenging Destiny by James Schellenberg and David M. Switzer in 1999, "Then my aliens started to write poetry, so I thought, 'That takes care of that.' I like to make up songs, and throw them in. It just got subsumed, or absorbed."
Gotlieb's stories are snapshots of the lives of ordinary people, whether human, alien, or android. Gotlieb's writing has a literary flavour and a social approach. Some of the stories carry considerable emotional charge. "Gingerbread Boy," for example, is a sad tale about fully sentient androids, who think like humans, but who struggle to accept that physically they are not completely human.
Gotlieb expresses difficult aspects of the human condition through her aliens and androids as well as her Solthree humans. Her writing is brilliant, unusual, and challenging. Son of the Morning is an excellent introduction to her work.
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