Freedom!

by Martin H. Greenberg, Mark Tier (Editor), Carole Heyer (Cover Artist)

Liberty is a recurring theme in science fiction. This volume explores this theme, combining landmark stories from science fiction's golden age with new stories:

Give Me Liberty - (2003) - Martin H. Greenberg and Mark Tier
Visions of Liberty - (2004) - Martin H. Greenberg and Mark Tier
...And Then There Were None - (1951) - Eric Frank Russell
Committee of the Whole - (1965) - Frank Herbert
Gadget vs. Trend - (1962) - Christopher Anvil
Historical Note - (1951) - Murray Leinster
Monument - (1961) - Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
Second Game - (1958) - Katherine MacLean and Charles V. De Vet
The Ungoverned - (1985) - Vernor Vinge
The Weapon Shop - (1942) - A. E. van Vogt

Genres: Short Stories, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fiction

528 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2006

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

[Bill Borre]

"The Right's Tough" by Robert J. Sawyer - Astronauts return to Earth only to find all governments have been dissolved due to the loss of privacy the evolution of information technology brought about. Every person has a trustworthy rating based upon all of their interactions with others since childhood. Since the astronauts lack trustworthy ratings they leave Earth to seek out a new planet.

[Sean Randall]

Some of these were interesting, though the lack of government as a concept in fiction is one I've rarely thought about. I enjoyed Monument, Historical Note and the weapon shop, Second Game and Pakeha.