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Works by Stefan Rudnicki
The Actor's Book of Classical Monologues: More Than 150 Selections From the Golden Age of Greek Drama, The Age of… (1988) — Editor — 67 copies
Imaginings: An Anthology of Visionary Literature, Volume 1: After the Myths Went Home (2004) 25 copies
Fantastic Imaginings: A Journey Through 3500 Years of Imaginative Writing, Comprising Fantasy, Horror, and Science… (2012) 4 copies
An American Family Shakespeare Entertainment, Vol. 2: Based on Charles & Mary Lambs Tales from Shakespeare, with… (2009) — Editor — 3 copies
Men Like Gods 1 copy
Associated Works
Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories — Narrator, some editions — 1,938 copies
First Into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War (2006) — Narrator, some editions — 247 copies
Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response (2005) — Narrator, some editions — 201 copies
Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers (2015) — Narrator, some editions — 201 copies
Before the Wind: The Memoir of an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833 (1833) — Narrator, some editions — 155 copies
Ender's World: Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender's Game (2013) — Narrator, some editions — 136 copies
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume XXIII (2007) — Narrator, some editions — 85 copies
V Wars: Blood and Fire: New Stories of the Vampire Wars (2014) — Narrator, some editions — 29 copies
Big Country, Volume 1: Stories of Louis L'Amour (Ride, You Tonto Raiders; and War Party) (2007) — Narrator, some editions — 24 copies
The Last Charles Manson Tapes: Evil Lives Beyond the Grave (Front Page Detectives) (2019) — Narrator, some editions — 10 copies
Gordon B. White is Creating Haunting Weird Horror {short story} (2021) — Narrator, some editions — 4 copies
The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, July-August 2003 — Narrator — 2 copies
The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, January-February 2003 (Unabridged) — Narrator — 1 copy
The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, May-June 2003 (Unabridged) — Narrator — 1 copy
StarShipSofa, #414: A Lonesome Speck of Home / Makeisha in Time (2013) — Narrator, some editions — 1 copy
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- RUDNICKI, Stefan
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- 1945
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- Krakow, Poland
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- Columbia University
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So, we wind up with a collection of historical and recent stories hanging together on the concept (I think) what happens after the powers of myths and gods have declined. This means well known science fiction authors such as Robert Silverberg ( “After the Myths Went Home”) and R.A Lafferty (one of my favorite Lafferty stories, “Continued on Next Rock”) are cheek by jowl with Ambrose Pierce, Guy de Maupassant, and Euripides. And, just for mood, poems by Stephen Crane and Walt Whitman are included.
The stories are fine. They all match the “theme” and have a fantastical element about them. But, other than a few already known exceptions (Lafferty springs to mind), none of them blaze themselves on the reader’s memory. And, inclusion of older material hurts the collection. It is not that these items are bad, they are just dated. And there are enough of them for that datedness to hurt the overall impact of the collection.
The redeeming thing about the collection is that I would be surprised if most readers had read even 25% previously. By digging into these older works – works that, in spite of my previous comments, are good enough –most readers will meet material that is different; something they haven’t seen before. So, the collection is nice from that regard. But nothing else makes this stand out as a must have anthology.… (more)