Star Colonies

by Martin H. Greenberg (Editor), John Helfers (Editor), Jack Williamson (Contributor)

In this brand-new collection of stories, such masterful forecasters of the future as Jack Williamson, Alan Dean Foster, Mike Resnick, Allen Steele, Robert J. Sawyer, and Pamela Sargent take readers to distant worlds where alien races thrive.

Genres: Science Fiction, Anthologies

304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published June 1, 2000

About the author

Martin Harry Greenberg was an American academic and speculative fiction anthologist. In all, he compiled 1,298 anthologies and commissioned over 8,200 original short stories. He founded Tekno Books, a packager of more than 2000 published books. In addition, he was a co-founder of the Sci-Fi Channel.

For the 1950s anthologist and publisher of Gnome Press, see Martin Greenberg.

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a better than average anthology of original science fiction short works that examine an old trope of the genre, many of them with a new and clever twist. Helfers and Greenberg put together a good roster of authors, including Jack Williamson (one of his last stories), Alan Dean Foster, Tom Piccirilli, Pamela Sargent (one of her very good Venus stories), Robert J. Sawyer, and Mike Resnick in collaboration with Kristine Kathryn Rusch. My favorite was The Boid Hunt, one of Allen Steele's Coyote stories.

[David Mclaughlin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This collection of short stories does a very good job of showcasing a variety of ways that people could colonize the stars. From the Wild West feel of Mike Resnick to the hopeful utopia from Pamela Sargent, I was entertained and enraptured reading through each story. I would recommend this to anyone who has a passing interest in science fiction as an entry point to the genre.

[Nora]

Like: The Muffin Migration, The Dryad’s Wedding, The Suspended Fourth, I am a Graveyard Hated by the Moon, Full Circle

Dislike: The Edgeworld, Coming of Age

[Annie · Rating 3 out of 5]

These stories were entertaining, and I felt that while some were reminiscent of early stories from the 1960's, others had unique variations on familiar themes. The Muffin Migration would have made a good movie, and The Boid Hunt reminded me of a western oater where the arrogant man gets his in the end. Worth a second read.

[Michaell Baumler]

I didn't like this book at all because it seemed none of the story's seemed to end I'm giving it away