And finally, my true favorite 1976 novelette, which I think really should have won an award, was Christopher Priest’s astonishing “An Infinite Summer.” It was apparently first slated for The Last Dangerous Visions, then withdrawn by Priest and placed in Peter Weston’s UK original anthology Andromeda 1. (This history became controversial when Priest published The Last Deadloss Visions, criticizing Ellison’s failure to publish TLDV. I have to say, that if Ellison is keeping stories as good as “An Infinite Summer” from publication, I resent that—no comment on author’s rights is intended, just a
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