Fellowship of the Stars: Nine Science Fiction Stories

by Terry Carr (Editor), Alan Dean Foster (Contributor), George Alec Effinger (Contributor)

Introduction by Terry Carr
Dream Done Green by Alan Dean Foster
Ashes All My Lust by George Alec Effinger
Enjoy, Enjoy by Frederik Pohl
The Stones Have Names by Mildred Downey Broxon
Do You Know Dave Wenzel? by Fritz Leiber
Shadows by Pamela Sargent
In This Image by Alan Brennert
What Friends Are For by John Brunner
The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics by Ursula K. Le Guin

Genres: Science Fiction, Short Stories

222 pages, Hardcover

First published November 15, 1974

About the author

Carr was born in Grants Pass, Oregon. He attended the City College of San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley from 1954 to 1959.

Carr discovered science fiction fandom in 1949, where he became an enthusiastic publisher of fanzines, which later helped open his way into the commercial publishing world. (He was one of the two fans responsible for the hoax fan 'Carl Brandon' after whom the Carl Brandon Society takes its name.) Despite a long career as a science fiction professional, he continued to participate as a fan until his death. He was nominated five times for Hugos for Best Fanzine (1959–1961, 1967–1968), winning in 1959, was nominated three times for Best Fan Writer (1971–1973), winning in 1973, and was Fan Guest of Honor at ConFederation in 1986.

Though he published some fiction in the early 1960s, Carr concentrated on editing. He first worked at Ace Books, establishing the Ace Science Fiction Specials series which published, among other novels, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin and Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin.

After conflicts with Ace head Donald A. Wollheim, he worked as a freelancer. He edited an original story anthology series called Universe, and a popular series of The Best Science Fiction of the Year anthologies that ran from 1972 until his death in 1987. He also edited numerous one-off anthologies over the same time span. He was nominated for the Hugo for Best Editor thirteen times (1973–1975, 1977–1979, 1981–1987), winning twice (1985 and 1987). His win in 1985 was the first time a freelance editor had won.

Carr taught at the Clarion Workshop at Michigan State University in 1978, where his students included Richard Kadrey and Pat Murphy.

Reviews

[Cuauhtemoc · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an anthology of 9 short stories put together by Terry Carr. All stories are decent (at least good); however, my favorites were (in order of appearance):
- "Dream Done Green" by Alan Dean Foster
- "Ashes All My Lust" by Alec Effinger
- "The Stones Have Names" by Mildred Downey Broxon
- "What Friends Are For" by John Brunner
These four are very different stories, about the relationships between humans and aliens (well the whole anthology is about that topic). I considered these four as Very Good.
A decent book to have in your Sci-Fi collection. Contains some stereotypical roles for men and women, but I guess that cannot be avoided when reading an anthology from 1974 (only a handful of classic Sci-Fi authors were able to predict changes not only in Science but also in Society).

[Joachim Boaz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Full review: https://sciencefictionruminations.com...

"Terry Carr’s anthology Fellowship of the Stars (1974) collects nine original short stories by luminaries of the genre, Ursula K. Le Guin and Fritz Leiber, to lesser known authors such as Alan Brennert and Mildred Downey Broxon. As the title suggests, Carr commissions stories on the “theme of friendship between human [...]"

[Stefanie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I didn't like even one of the stories.