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Contents:
Harness, C. L. Child By Chronos
Lee, W. A Message From Charity
Scortia, T. N. When You Hear the Tone
Galouye, D. F. Share Alike
Banks, R. E. The Littlest People
MacDonald, J. D. Ring Around the Redhead
Sheckley, R. Human Man's Burden
McKenna, R. Home the Hard Way
Vinge, J. D. Tim Soldier
240 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1980
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February 4, 2022
Gotta love funky 50s scifi.
Child by Chronos (Harness) - Eh. Funky time travel. Mother/daughter shenanigans.
A Message from Charity (Lee) - A great concept. Sharing consciousness with a person suffering a witch trial? Very neat.
When You Hear the Tone (Scortia) - Eh. Timey-wimey phone calls. Easily skip this one.
Share Alike (Galouye) - Probably the best concept. Two people on separate levels of existence while sharing an apartment, the common level of existence? Very neat.
The Littlest People (Banks) - People selling themselves into servitude, being shrunken down for storage/transport. As a fan of tiny faeries making their way in a human-sized world, I kinda liked this one.
Ring Around the Redhead (Macdonald) - Another eh. Man finds quantum ring, brings future girl into our timeline. Easy skip.
Human Man's Burden (Sheckley) - Big eh. While I love stories of asteroid/planetoid colonization, I don't love the imagery of the robots. I know it was published in '56, but you could do literally anything else than mock the suffering and exploitation of human slavery.
Home the Hard Way (McKenna) - "I'm a man again." Skip.
Tin Soldier (Joan D. Vinge) - The only one written by a woman in this collection, and easily the best. The women were treated like humans, had actual characterization, and I loved the ideas. Prejudice and racism were excellently discussed. I loved Maris, the tin soldier. I loved his wants, his dreams, his relationship with Brandy. I loved Brandy. She had goals and dreams, unlike the other women in this collection. I loved her relationship with Maris. This was a perfectly smooth chaser to this collection.
Child by Chronos (Harness) - Eh. Funky time travel. Mother/daughter shenanigans.
A Message from Charity (Lee) - A great concept. Sharing consciousness with a person suffering a witch trial? Very neat.
When You Hear the Tone (Scortia) - Eh. Timey-wimey phone calls. Easily skip this one.
Share Alike (Galouye) - Probably the best concept. Two people on separate levels of existence while sharing an apartment, the common level of existence? Very neat.
The Littlest People (Banks) - People selling themselves into servitude, being shrunken down for storage/transport. As a fan of tiny faeries making their way in a human-sized world, I kinda liked this one.
Ring Around the Redhead (Macdonald) - Another eh. Man finds quantum ring, brings future girl into our timeline. Easy skip.
Human Man's Burden (Sheckley) - Big eh. While I love stories of asteroid/planetoid colonization, I don't love the imagery of the robots. I know it was published in '56, but you could do literally anything else than mock the suffering and exploitation of human slavery.
Home the Hard Way (McKenna) - "I'm a man again." Skip.
Tin Soldier (Joan D. Vinge) - The only one written by a woman in this collection, and easily the best. The women were treated like humans, had actual characterization, and I loved the ideas. Prejudice and racism were excellently discussed. I loved Maris, the tin soldier. I loved his wants, his dreams, his relationship with Brandy. I loved Brandy. She had goals and dreams, unlike the other women in this collection. I loved her relationship with Maris. This was a perfectly smooth chaser to this collection.
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