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(3.95) | None | The anthology of great authors including Robert Silverberg, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke. |
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25 short stories; no editor or anthologist attributed; authors include: Kurt Vonnegut, Roger Zelazny, John W. Campbell, Fritz Leiber, H.G. Wells, J.G. Ballard, Frederik Pohl, Alan E. Nourse, Arthur C. Clarke, John Wyndham, Robert A. Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Ursula le Guin, Michael Scott Rohan, Robert Sheckley, Thomas M. Disch, Theodore Sturgeon, A.E. van Vogt, R.A. Lafferty, Poul Anderson, Rachel Pollack, Carter Scholz, Philip K. Dick, Frederic Brown, Robert Silverberg | |
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I recently found this anthology in a second-hand bookstore and I remembered just how much it had gripped me when I was a child.
It kicks off with Harrison Bergeron, which is probably the most familiar of Vonnegut's shorts, and
Rachel Pollack's "Is Your Child Using Drugs?" was frankly terrifying when I was younger and hasn't lost much of its power now that I'm old enough to understand what it's all about. The same goes for "Descending", and "The Engine at Heartspring's Center".
There's not a story here that I would hesitate to recommend on its own merits. ( )