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The Other Nineteenth Century
A New Collection of Long Out-of-Print Stories From One of the Greatest Fantasists of the Twentieth Century
Avram Davidson, who died in 1993, was widely regarded as one of the most outstanding authors of short fantasy fiction in our time. This collection comprises his distinctive historical fantasies-tales of strange Mitteleuropas, of magic in Victorian England and on the American frontier. Here are "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire," "Traveller from an Antique Land," and "What Strange Stars and Skies"; here are dragons, cameras, and "The Singular Incident of the Dog on the Beach." Witty, whimsical, dark, and strange, these tales of times and places that almost were will leave even the most jaded readers amazed. No one has ever written like Avram Davidson, before or since.
Avram Davidson, who died in 1993, was widely regarded as one of the most outstanding authors of short fantasy fiction in our time. This collection comprises his distinctive historical fantasies-tales of strange Mitteleuropas, of magic in Victorian England and on the American frontier. Here are "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire," "Traveller from an Antique Land," and "What Strange Stars and Skies"; here are dragons, cameras, and "The Singular Incident of the Dog on the Beach." Witty, whimsical, dark, and strange, these tales of times and places that almost were will leave even the most jaded readers amazed. No one has ever written like Avram Davidson, before or since.
336 pages, Paperback
First published December 20, 2001
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Avram Davidson
430 books94 followersAvram Davidson was an American Jewish writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction, as well as the author of many stories that do not fit into a genre niche. He won a Hugo Award and three World Fantasy Awards in the science fiction and fantasy genre, a World Fantasy Life Achievement award, and a Queen's Award and an Edgar Award in the mystery genre. Davidson edited The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from 1962 to 1964. His last novel The Boss in the Wall: A Treatise on the House Devil was completed by Grania Davis and was a Nebula Award finalist in 1998. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction says "he is perhaps sf's most explicitly literary author".
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October 17, 2021Well that was certainly a unique experience--I've never read anything quite like this before, and that's an experience I value. Davidson was a hell of a writer and had a singular imagination. But I'm pretty uncomfortable with how he wrote about women and anyone from a non-European background. I might give his Jewish fantasy collection a chance since that is so incredibly Of Interest to me, but I don't feel a need to explore the rest of his work.
That said: "O Brave Old World!" is incredible and I love it.
That said: "O Brave Old World!" is incredible and I love it.
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May 11, 2020It feels redundant to describe a writer as building worlds with words – isn't that what they all do? Yet it's still my first instinct when it comes to Avram Davidson. I read his speculative essays before his fiction, but they both have the same sense of being cradled in an embrace of enormous warmth and wisdom and above all erudition. I understand he could be a fractious man, and as such that power did have its dark side; if The Phoenix And The Mirror felt as close as I've ever come to walking around one of those early modern paintings of an impossibly ordered and light courtly landscape, that book's ostensible sequel, Vergil In Averno, is a horrible, claustrophobic knot of a thing. Mercifully, these stories mostly find him in gentler mood: as the title suggests, and likewise that seductively sepia cover, the majority sit in variations on an idealised, somewhat alternate 19th century, a land of curious little shops, people with exotic interests, and eccentricities given greater rein by the increasing ease of travel and communication, but not yet smoothed out by them. The title isn't strictly accurate: the first story, O Brave Old World!, begins firmly in an alternate 18th century, while plenty of other pieces skirt into the 20th, even up to and beyond the Second World War for the likes of Dragon Skin Drum and El Vilvoy De Las Islas. The final, fragmentary story, stitched together by Michael Swanwick, even has fluorescent lighting! Equally, something like The Man Who Saw The Elephant, one of several yarns all the more delightful for its determinedly oblique refusal ever to quite state its punchline, could very easily have happened in our own past. Still, there's a mood they have in common, tall tales of times when the incomprehensible and strange was a thing of wonder rather than terror, a world all the more seductive for never having quite been that way.
February 28, 2017
I like to think of myself as fairly literate. I've read a wide variety of genres and have managed in my short time on this Earth to get through not only a good number of acknowledged classics of literature without having my high school English teacher standing over me reminding me that the comparative paper is due tomorrow but also more modern classics. Nineteenth century, twentieth century, our current crazy century, I've done them all and come to think of myself as someone who could tackle pretty much anything.
So it probably says more about me than it does about Avram Davidson that the vast majority of these stories left me utterly cold..
I can't explain it, to be honest. Davidson is one of those unnecessarily obscure authors that are widely beloved by people who have had the opportunity to discover him, and for good reason . . . he never restricted himself to one genre, often writing stories that were difficult to classify, he had an extremely erudite and playful style and a seemingly boundless imagination. He was a smart writer and a thoughtful one and someone that we should be delighted to see any collection of his works because if nothing else he deserves to be in circulation.
And yet, I had a very difficult time getting into any of these.
That said, this may not be the collection that newcomers to Davidson should be getting into first . . . sort of a companion to a larger collection of his more famous and award-winning stories, this one contains a series of stories that are basically historical fantasies, in most cases not quite alternative histories but slightly skewed ways of looking at events where a minor change either avoids or causes a bigger effect. Its packed with stories from all over his career, many of which are quite short, often numbering under twenty pages.
That may be part of the problem, frankly. Normally I'd see that kind of thing as a bonus since if the story wasn't very good I would only have to plow through the scant pages of the tale and then move happily onto the next one. But Davidson writes most of the stories in a fairly authentic old fashioned style, full of long sentences and witty allusions along with a pace that can be politely termed "leisurely". Even this kind of thing isn't usually a turn off for me, as I've read my share of Dickens and long Russian novels and other authors who have tried to write in that style. The difference to me is that in those cases the more verbose style of that kind of writing lends itself to longer works, its the gradual accretion of words and events that give those stories their eventual power, as the climax becomes the result of the accumulation of the weight of everything that's gone before. With Davidson's stories here, we don't really have that luxury as often by the time the story starts to gather something resembling momentum its over and it feels like you've read nine out of ten pages of rumination with the vague idea that there's a story hidden inside somewhere.
Its possible that with the alternative history angle, and this isn't a criticism at all, but he's being far too subtle for me here. Some of the power (or amusement) of the tales involve having some working knowledge of what obscure historical event he's inverting (as in the first story "O Brave Old World!", where the American Revolution takes a different turn . . . this one's more about the journey that the twist though as you'll probably see where its going fairly quickly) and since he has a tendency to change names or reference stuff that even an overly literate (or so I thought) former science major like myself is not entirely up on ("One Morning With Samuel . . ." is an alternative explanation for how the writing of epic poem "Kubla Khan" got interrupted and "Traveller From an Antique Land" is a suggestion for the deaths of Percy Shelly and Lord Byron, a portion of literary history that is definitely not in my comfort zone) which can give the impression of being lost as the story winds on, at least until the postscript where the editor helpfully explains what you just read, often causing a "Oh, THAT'S what's going on!" moment. I had a lot of those moments.
And its a shame, because he's clearly a thoughtful, clever writer with a definite idea of what he's doing. Even when his stories seem to be lazily rambling, often you get the sense that he's seeding the story with allusions or omissions that are going to become important later. But most of them are just too short to be really immersive, even given his great facility with language. He readily constructs a fantasy world based on obscurities of history but before I've gotten a chance to get my feet wet he's off to the next locale.
The stories that worked the best for me were the ones that had a clearer plot from the get-go and weren't operating on being pastiches or winking references to writers of the past (the Sherlock Holmes piece "The Singular Incident of the Dog on the Beach" is clever in how he writes around the great detective but again its too short to be anything more than "aha!" before its over, although "Twenty-Three" is a good example of how to write a Lovecraft story without actually writing like Lovecraft, proving its possible without developing an addiction to laudanum and an overly prejudicial attitude toward minorities). Even the ones with a sturdier plot, like "The Montavarde Camera" are atmospheric until the twist ending, which doesn't result in a sense of horror so much as a dry "oh, how very droll".
One of my favorites? The "old biddies with a hatred of new technology versus robbers" story "Summon the Watch!" which at least had an interesting and immediate conflict to hang onto, as well as reference to Davidson's nineteenth century concerns and a clever ending that doesn't require me to take a history course in poets of the late 1800s. I like the general feel of "El Vilvoy de las Islas", which felt like a fantasy version of Conrad's "Nostromo" without the overwhelming sensation of everything going wrong at once. Some of them, like "Dragon Skin Drum" take an interesting perspective on interfacing with the mysterious world of the East even if it feels like the plot is happening somewhere else.
And maybe that's who these stories are for, people who are attuned to that century, who are willing to let Davidson take them on a leisurely ride wherever his mind or typewriter might want to take him, who aren't concerned with plot so much as getting the general feel right. These aren't bad stories by any means, in fact these are clearly very good stories by a major writer who put an amazing amount of thought and effort into conveying a world that never existed in only a scant handful of pages. But wherever the door was to get into these, I couldn't find it. Whether its simply not my thing, or that I read them too fast (the shortness does work against them in that you think you can plow through a bunch of them in a short period of time but as anyone who has read Dickens knows, "plowing" is not the gear you want to operate in for maximum resonance) or I just wasn't in the mood for them . . . I can't say. Maybe these are stories that need to be reread, gone through once to get used to the style and acclimate yourself to the cleverness and once or twice more simply to look for everything that's going on under the surface. Maybe I was looking for something with a little more emotional weight. Maybe this isn't the best collection of obscure stories by a semi-obscure writer you can put together. There are as many possibilities as there are permutations of history that Davidson toyed with.
I will say this, though, if any of this sounds like it might be in your wheelhouse then he is definitely the writer you need to discover (or rediscover) immediately. His immense talent shines through on all of these stories and his name needs to be more well known again so people can fall in love or be perplexed or decide to take another crack at him. As well read as you like to think you are, there are going to be excellent authors that are just not going to click with you, that you can't appreciate it. That may be the case here (I've got the treasury collection with the heavy hitters coming up, so we'll see if maybe its the collection itself) and if it is, so be it, but if my review throws his name up in front of someone's eyeballs and makes them think "What the heck is this dude rambling about, I was made for this guy!" then I've done my job, as limited and inexpert and indirect as it may be.
So it probably says more about me than it does about Avram Davidson that the vast majority of these stories left me utterly cold..
I can't explain it, to be honest. Davidson is one of those unnecessarily obscure authors that are widely beloved by people who have had the opportunity to discover him, and for good reason . . . he never restricted himself to one genre, often writing stories that were difficult to classify, he had an extremely erudite and playful style and a seemingly boundless imagination. He was a smart writer and a thoughtful one and someone that we should be delighted to see any collection of his works because if nothing else he deserves to be in circulation.
And yet, I had a very difficult time getting into any of these.
That said, this may not be the collection that newcomers to Davidson should be getting into first . . . sort of a companion to a larger collection of his more famous and award-winning stories, this one contains a series of stories that are basically historical fantasies, in most cases not quite alternative histories but slightly skewed ways of looking at events where a minor change either avoids or causes a bigger effect. Its packed with stories from all over his career, many of which are quite short, often numbering under twenty pages.
That may be part of the problem, frankly. Normally I'd see that kind of thing as a bonus since if the story wasn't very good I would only have to plow through the scant pages of the tale and then move happily onto the next one. But Davidson writes most of the stories in a fairly authentic old fashioned style, full of long sentences and witty allusions along with a pace that can be politely termed "leisurely". Even this kind of thing isn't usually a turn off for me, as I've read my share of Dickens and long Russian novels and other authors who have tried to write in that style. The difference to me is that in those cases the more verbose style of that kind of writing lends itself to longer works, its the gradual accretion of words and events that give those stories their eventual power, as the climax becomes the result of the accumulation of the weight of everything that's gone before. With Davidson's stories here, we don't really have that luxury as often by the time the story starts to gather something resembling momentum its over and it feels like you've read nine out of ten pages of rumination with the vague idea that there's a story hidden inside somewhere.
Its possible that with the alternative history angle, and this isn't a criticism at all, but he's being far too subtle for me here. Some of the power (or amusement) of the tales involve having some working knowledge of what obscure historical event he's inverting (as in the first story "O Brave Old World!", where the American Revolution takes a different turn . . . this one's more about the journey that the twist though as you'll probably see where its going fairly quickly) and since he has a tendency to change names or reference stuff that even an overly literate (or so I thought) former science major like myself is not entirely up on ("One Morning With Samuel . . ." is an alternative explanation for how the writing of epic poem "Kubla Khan" got interrupted and "Traveller From an Antique Land" is a suggestion for the deaths of Percy Shelly and Lord Byron, a portion of literary history that is definitely not in my comfort zone) which can give the impression of being lost as the story winds on, at least until the postscript where the editor helpfully explains what you just read, often causing a "Oh, THAT'S what's going on!" moment. I had a lot of those moments.
And its a shame, because he's clearly a thoughtful, clever writer with a definite idea of what he's doing. Even when his stories seem to be lazily rambling, often you get the sense that he's seeding the story with allusions or omissions that are going to become important later. But most of them are just too short to be really immersive, even given his great facility with language. He readily constructs a fantasy world based on obscurities of history but before I've gotten a chance to get my feet wet he's off to the next locale.
The stories that worked the best for me were the ones that had a clearer plot from the get-go and weren't operating on being pastiches or winking references to writers of the past (the Sherlock Holmes piece "The Singular Incident of the Dog on the Beach" is clever in how he writes around the great detective but again its too short to be anything more than "aha!" before its over, although "Twenty-Three" is a good example of how to write a Lovecraft story without actually writing like Lovecraft, proving its possible without developing an addiction to laudanum and an overly prejudicial attitude toward minorities). Even the ones with a sturdier plot, like "The Montavarde Camera" are atmospheric until the twist ending, which doesn't result in a sense of horror so much as a dry "oh, how very droll".
One of my favorites? The "old biddies with a hatred of new technology versus robbers" story "Summon the Watch!" which at least had an interesting and immediate conflict to hang onto, as well as reference to Davidson's nineteenth century concerns and a clever ending that doesn't require me to take a history course in poets of the late 1800s. I like the general feel of "El Vilvoy de las Islas", which felt like a fantasy version of Conrad's "Nostromo" without the overwhelming sensation of everything going wrong at once. Some of them, like "Dragon Skin Drum" take an interesting perspective on interfacing with the mysterious world of the East even if it feels like the plot is happening somewhere else.
And maybe that's who these stories are for, people who are attuned to that century, who are willing to let Davidson take them on a leisurely ride wherever his mind or typewriter might want to take him, who aren't concerned with plot so much as getting the general feel right. These aren't bad stories by any means, in fact these are clearly very good stories by a major writer who put an amazing amount of thought and effort into conveying a world that never existed in only a scant handful of pages. But wherever the door was to get into these, I couldn't find it. Whether its simply not my thing, or that I read them too fast (the shortness does work against them in that you think you can plow through a bunch of them in a short period of time but as anyone who has read Dickens knows, "plowing" is not the gear you want to operate in for maximum resonance) or I just wasn't in the mood for them . . . I can't say. Maybe these are stories that need to be reread, gone through once to get used to the style and acclimate yourself to the cleverness and once or twice more simply to look for everything that's going on under the surface. Maybe I was looking for something with a little more emotional weight. Maybe this isn't the best collection of obscure stories by a semi-obscure writer you can put together. There are as many possibilities as there are permutations of history that Davidson toyed with.
I will say this, though, if any of this sounds like it might be in your wheelhouse then he is definitely the writer you need to discover (or rediscover) immediately. His immense talent shines through on all of these stories and his name needs to be more well known again so people can fall in love or be perplexed or decide to take another crack at him. As well read as you like to think you are, there are going to be excellent authors that are just not going to click with you, that you can't appreciate it. That may be the case here (I've got the treasury collection with the heavy hitters coming up, so we'll see if maybe its the collection itself) and if it is, so be it, but if my review throws his name up in front of someone's eyeballs and makes them think "What the heck is this dude rambling about, I was made for this guy!" then I've done my job, as limited and inexpert and indirect as it may be.
November 7, 2013
"A New Collection of Long-Out-of-Print Sotires from one of the GREATEST FANTASISTS of the TWENTIETH CENTURY" screams the byline on the cover.
Well, that's right up my alley, but somehow I'd missed this book on the shelf for years. I was tickled to pick up a book of short stories (my favorite) of speculative fiction (my other favorite).
I love speculative fiction because it asks "what if" about history, and the answer usually gets the creative juices flowing. Other favorites include Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus, and Boys from Brazil. 1492 The Year the World Began is an excellent non-fiction example of the genre.
One of the things that I love about speculative fiction is that frequently, it can make me feel dumb. That sounds weird, but if you read something that helps you realize you don't know much about a certain time period, or maybe didn't pay enough attention in history class, then a whole world is opened... if you take advantage of the opportunity to learn more about the subject of the book.
Davidson has a strong, clear voice that is somewhat pleasantly old-fashioned in tone. The stories in this collection, while enjoyable, certainly offered me plenty of opportunities to feel dumb, enough so that I began to feel a certain pride when I was able to make a connection on my own: "He's talking about Sherlock Holmes!"
Many times my questions were answered by the afterword for each story offered by the editors (including the late Davidson's wife, Grania Davis). I personally enjoyed the book more when I began reading the afterword first... although that may be considered "cheating," one can only take so much self-imposed dumbness. (I still don't understand how "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire" is about the start of World War One...)
The last offering in the book, "Mickelrede; or, The Slayer and the Staff: A Ghost Novel (with Michael Swannick) is created from fragments of Davidson's writing, with Swannick filling in the missing pieces. Mostly he does a good job, although there are a few places where the text shifts unsettlingly to a more modern tone. This story was one of my favorites, offering a Vonnegutesque appearance by the author, and a "The Man in High Castle" style ending.
Well, that's right up my alley, but somehow I'd missed this book on the shelf for years. I was tickled to pick up a book of short stories (my favorite) of speculative fiction (my other favorite).
I love speculative fiction because it asks "what if" about history, and the answer usually gets the creative juices flowing. Other favorites include Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus, and Boys from Brazil. 1492 The Year the World Began is an excellent non-fiction example of the genre.
One of the things that I love about speculative fiction is that frequently, it can make me feel dumb. That sounds weird, but if you read something that helps you realize you don't know much about a certain time period, or maybe didn't pay enough attention in history class, then a whole world is opened... if you take advantage of the opportunity to learn more about the subject of the book.
Davidson has a strong, clear voice that is somewhat pleasantly old-fashioned in tone. The stories in this collection, while enjoyable, certainly offered me plenty of opportunities to feel dumb, enough so that I began to feel a certain pride when I was able to make a connection on my own: "He's talking about Sherlock Holmes!"
Many times my questions were answered by the afterword for each story offered by the editors (including the late Davidson's wife, Grania Davis). I personally enjoyed the book more when I began reading the afterword first... although that may be considered "cheating," one can only take so much self-imposed dumbness. (I still don't understand how "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire" is about the start of World War One...)
The last offering in the book, "Mickelrede; or, The Slayer and the Staff: A Ghost Novel (with Michael Swannick) is created from fragments of Davidson's writing, with Swannick filling in the missing pieces. Mostly he does a good job, although there are a few places where the text shifts unsettlingly to a more modern tone. This story was one of my favorites, offering a Vonnegutesque appearance by the author, and a "The Man in High Castle" style ending.
October 2, 2015
As usual I have the receipt in this book to (initially) use as a bookmark. The date on said receipt is 02-21-03: so I began this work 12 years after purchase. I wish I started it sooner; actually wish I was able to read these stories when initially published.
Most anthologies of short stories, of one author's work or a collection of authors upon a theme, tend to have a wide range of hits, misses and nearly so. This one I found to be full of more hits than misses. Honestly for me I found no misses.
Many of the stories with a historical grounding - 'One Morning with Samuel, Dorothy, and William', for example - had that sting for me when I realized the historical persons or events involved, especially when told from a different angle or a change fact. As I progressed through the story I kept catching a phrase or sentence that made me say: 'There is something here I am missing' or 'This sounds familiar'. Some authors leave me feeling like an uneducated fool who doesn't get it; Davidson's style is subtle and sly and opens the minds eye with suddenness that is not a slap.
The final assessment: read this.
Most anthologies of short stories, of one author's work or a collection of authors upon a theme, tend to have a wide range of hits, misses and nearly so. This one I found to be full of more hits than misses. Honestly for me I found no misses.
Many of the stories with a historical grounding - 'One Morning with Samuel, Dorothy, and William', for example - had that sting for me when I realized the historical persons or events involved, especially when told from a different angle or a change fact. As I progressed through the story I kept catching a phrase or sentence that made me say: 'There is something here I am missing' or 'This sounds familiar'. Some authors leave me feeling like an uneducated fool who doesn't get it; Davidson's style is subtle and sly and opens the minds eye with suddenness that is not a slap.
The final assessment: read this.
March 7, 2008
Ugh. Didn't even finish. Reads like a really boring game of "spot the historical (or literary) character".
January 15, 2013
Book of short stories. Alternative history. Interesting ideas but opaque writing style. Often difficult to understand.
August 10, 2022
I expected to like this collection of short stories, but I just... didn't. The only I actually enjoyed to any extent was the last one in the bunch, which was actually an outline left by Davidson when he died, and filled in and completed by another author. The story of this last one was entertaining, and the format the completer choose to present it in was different, but fitting for the story. Even so, not enough to get this one to three stars. Which is one reason it took me a whole week to finish a not very long book.
September 11, 2019
Of all the Davidson books I've read over the past year, this is probably my favorite. He wrote it late in life and his writing had a more mature voice. More depth and written without the feeling of it being for a mass-market grind-it-out. I do rcommend it for fans of short-stories.
August 6, 2022
More of Davidson's seemingly inexhaustble supply of wonderful stories.
October 24, 2023
Great title and cool book cover, mannered and dull short stories. Never got the appeal of Davidson. He seems to be trying too hard to be quirky and obscure.
November 20, 2025
there are a few interesting stories, but by god am I bored
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February 15, 2017Excellent set of short stories. Very different and unique.
June 12, 2013
I've always found Avram Davidson to be amongst the subtlest of writers. Where other writers will use words like meat cleavers or blunt instruments, Davidson will use them as a prankster might a feather or a surgeon a scalpel. At his best, which is in the realm of the short story, he leaves the reader with haunting memories, a growing sense of awe or a shattering revelation; other times, it's a smile, a sigh and a shake of the head. But he always leaves the reader knowing that he had read something special, even if he's not exactly sure what...at the moment. The stories in this collection are not interconnected, but they are generally set in a Nineteenth Century of Davidson's imagination, where history is not always as we remember it. Many of the stories pivot about crucial, if sometimes obscure, points in history; at times the meaning of the story may be lost on the reader not intimately aware of the incidents in the lives of Byron or Shelly or Joseph Smith, but, fortunately or not, each story is followed by an afterword by the compiler of the collection where a blunt instrument or meat cleaver, as appropriate, may be applied. Sometimes science fiction, sometimes fantasy, sometimes unclassifiable unless we resort to the old labels of "fable" or "parable," the stories all have the touch of a master storyteller. and while they may not be for everyone, they will certainly be of interest to the reader looking for something more than just a good story.
July 30, 2020
Uneven. I'm not sure I see the appeal of Davidson. A few were good.
March 15, 2008
A collection of stories, most of which are set in the 19th century, that (mostly) all have a speculative element to them. Some of them reference events or fiction of the 19th century in interesting or humorous ways; one of my favorites concerns Montevarde's camera. Sometimes they are hard to follow, as Davidson also writes in the style of the 19th century, complete with intensely convoluted run-on sentences. I think I may have to seek out more of Davidson's fiction.
October 16, 2025
The title promises "A collection of long out-of-print stories." They should probably have stayed that way...
If you're already a fan of Davidson, you're better of re-reading one of his many other fine books; and if you're new to him, you'd have no idea from this collection what's good about him. I thought about critiquing individual stories, but it's just not worth it -- on the whole a very subpar collection.
If you're already a fan of Davidson, you're better of re-reading one of his many other fine books; and if you're new to him, you'd have no idea from this collection what's good about him. I thought about critiquing individual stories, but it's just not worth it -- on the whole a very subpar collection.
September 4, 2009
Eh. I can't stand short story collections. While a few of them are quite interesting (the first story about the British Declaration of Independence from America) I found myself slogging through this book.
August 1, 2010
An interesting group of short stories- some were really good and thought provoking and some I just didn't get. Maybe I don't know enough of actual history to appreciate?
September 12, 2014
I liked some of the stories more than others. My favorite is "The Odd Old Bird".
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August 30, 2017Incredible! Every time I read a new story, I was immediately transported back in time, on the scenes meticulously written by Avram Davidson. What an incredible masterpiece! My favorite so far is the "Monteverde Camera". I can't help but wonder...
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