From Mind to Mind: Tales of Communication From Analog

Schmidt Analog Anthologies #9

by Stanley Schmidt (Editor), Anthony Boucher (Contributor), Francis Carter (Contributor)

Sixteen stories taken from the pages of Astounding/Analog Magazine, the leading magazine of "Hard" science fiction, between the years of 1942 and 1983. This collection is a series of speculations on the nature and future of communication.

This collection includes the following stories;

Barrier by Anthony Boucher
The Signals by Francis Carter
The Gift of Gab by Jack Vance
Top Secret by Eric Frank Russell
Meihem in ce Klasrum by Dolton Edwards
Omnilingual by H. Beam Piper
Minds Meet by Paul Ash
Two-Way Communication by Christopher Anvil
Duplex by Verge Foray
Sailing Through Program Management by Al Charmatz
Beam Pirate by George O. Smith
From Time to Time by Bruce Stanley Burdick
Shapes to Come by Edward Wellen
The Piper's Son by Lewis Padgett
Babel II by Christopher Anvil
Collaboration by Mark C. Jarvis

288 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1984

About the author

Stanley Schmidt is an American science fiction author. Between 1978 and 2012 he served as editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine.

Reviews

[Rogue Reader · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hard not to find something to appreciate in this masterful compilation. Particularly liked Piper's Omnilingual, the discovery of a new rosetta stone; Ash's Minds Meet- a meeting of minds despite cultural and language differences and a very strange piece I can't find now about three alien groups trying to communicate with each other through their known language expectations, none reaching the other and determining that the universe is empty except for themselves.