Others: Mixed Michael Moorcock's New Worlds may be the most dynamic SF magazine in the world today. Here is a vigorous, trail-blazing magazine whose writers carry you on voyages into the unknown--voyages which are original, disturbing & above all different. Introduction (68) essay by Michael Moorcock In Passage of the Sun (66) novelette by George Collyn Multi-value Motorway/Colin Charteris (67) story by Brian W. Aldiss The Great Clock (66) story by Langdon Jones The Post-mortem People (66) story by Peter Tate The Disaster Story (66) story by Charles Platt The Heat Death of the Universe (67) story by Pamela Zoline Coranda (67) novelette by Keith Roberts The Soft World Sequence (67) poem by George MacBeth Kazoo (67) story by James Sallis Integrity (64) story by Barrington J. Bayley=P.F. Woods The Mountain (65) story by Michael Moorcock=James Colvin
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Poul Anderson
1981 · 207 pages · 1 review
Others: NeutralSomeday. Tomorrow. When Earth fails man and man leaves Earth behind, the awesomeness is waiting Out There. Empty beyond all imagining, vast beyond all reckoning, as deep as Time and twice as cold, The Dark between the stars. Here, collected for the first time, are the most incredible and terrifying voyages of the acclaimed master of SF adventure. Voyages to the center of a universe dark with terror. And Beyond.
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A. E. van Vogt
1950 · 192 pages · 2 reviews
Others: MixedOne of the great original classics of modern SF returns! An all-time classic space saga, The Voyage of the Space Beagle is one of the pinnacles of Golden Age SF, an influence on generations of stories. An episodic novel filled with surprises and provocative ideas, this is the story of a great exploration ship sent out into the unknown reaches of space on a long mission of discovery. They encounter several terrifying alien species, including the Ix, who lay their eggs in human bodies, which then devour the humans from within when they hatch. This is one of the most entertaining and gripping stories in all of classic SF.
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James Blish
1957 · 185 pages · 2 reviews
Others: MixedThe Seedling Stars is a collection of science fiction short stories by James Blish. It was first published by Gnome Press in 1957 in an edition of 5000 copies. The stories all concern adapting humans to alien environments. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine Fantasy & Science Fiction, If, Super Science Stories & Galaxy Science Fiction. Contents: "Seeding Program" "The Thing in the Attic" "Surface Tension" "Watershed"
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Isaac Asimov
1962 · 194 pages · 1 review
Others: MixedContents: The Heart of the Serpent - novelette by Ivan Yefremov Siema - novelette by Anatoly Dnieprov The Trial of Tantalus - novelette by Victor Saparin Stone from the Stars - short story by Valentina Zhuravlyova Six Matches - short story by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Professor Ivan Yefremov (born 1907) is well known both as a tireless fossil hunter and a talented science-fiction writer. His fantasy ranges between the mysteries of times long bygone and the distant future. His novels include The Land of Foam, where the scene is set in ancient Egypt and Greece, and the world-renowned Andromeda, in which his fantasy roams two thousand years ahead. The Heart of the Serpent, given in this volume, was written in 1959. Its subject is related to that of Andromeda. Anatoly Dnieprov (born 1919), the author of Siema, which he wrote in 1958, is a distinguished physicist who works at an institute of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. His first book appeared in 1946. His favorite subject is cybernetics - its amazing achievements to date and its breathtaking potentialities. Scientific authenticity is a salient feature of his writings. Victor Separin (born 1905), a journalist by profession, is editor of the Soviet popular geographic magazine Around the World. His fiction, which treats of present-day scientific and technical problems, is amazingly realistic. In this volume he is represented by The Trial of Tantalus, a story dealing with prospects of microbiology. Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, authors of The Six Matches, are frequent contributors to Soviet popular science periodicals. Few readers know, however, that the two brothers are not professional writers. Boris Strugatsky (born 1933) is an astronomer and works at the computer laboratory of Pulknovo Observatory. Arkady (born 1925) is a linguist and translator specializing in Japanese. Valentina Zhuravleva (born 1933) is a comparatively recent graduate of the Azerbaijan Medical Institute. She was probably prompted to try her hand at scientific fiction by the almost fantastic possibilities offering in the field of medicine. The bold flights of fancy in her scientific thinking make her stories particularly noteworthy. Bio-automation is the theme of her Stone from the Stars, written in 1959, and included in this volume.
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Frederik Pohl
1952 · 171 pages · 2 reviews
Others: MixedThe Space Merchants is a 1952 science fiction novel by American writers Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth. Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine as a serial entitled Gravy Planet, the novel was first published as a single volume in 1953, and has sold heavily since. It deals satirically with a hyper-developed consumerism, seen through the eyes of an advertising executive. In 1984, Pohl published a sequel, The Merchants' War. In 2012, it was included in the Library of America omnibus American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1953–1956. Pohl revised the original novel in 2011 with added material and more contemporary references. It was rated the 24th "all-time best novel" in a 1975 Locus poll, jointly with The Martian Chronicles and The War of the Worlds. The novel was also included in David Pringle's list of 100 best science fiction novels.
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Lee Harding
1977 · 222 pages · 2 reviews
Others: PositiveContents: 7 • Foreword: The Bad News and the Good • (1976) • essay by Isaac Asimov 11 • Idiot Stick • (1958) • shortstory by Damon Knight 24 • Nine Lives • (1969) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin 47 • The Commuter • (1953) • shortstory by Philip K. Dick 59 • The Oath • (1960) • novelette by James Blish 77 • Takeover Bid • (1965) • novelette by John Baxter 94 • Comes Now the Power • (1966) • shortstory by Roger Zelazny 100 • Litterbug • (1969) • novelette by Tony Morphett 117 • Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith 138 • A Song Before Sunset • (1976) • shortstory by David Grigg 149 • Sundance • (1969) • shortstory by Robert Silverberg 163 • The Oh in Jose • (1966) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss (variant of The O in José) [as by Brian Aldiss ] 172 • The Man Who Came Early • (1956) • novelette by Poul Anderson 194 • Call Him Lord • (1966) • novelette by Gordon R. Dickson 213 • The Garden of Time • (1962) • shortstory by J. G. Ballard
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Mixedhate to say it, I didn't really enjoy this very much. There's a bunch of stuff in here that I would categorize as annoying hippie Kazoo... My two favorites are the disaster story by Charles Platt... I also like Integrity by PF Woods. ... the rest of it I found, I don't know, a little bit academic, a little bit formal, a little bit self-consciously experimental.
