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Doubleday (1960), Edition: Book Club
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LibraryThing member wirkman
A classic anthology of science fictcion, featuring writing by John Wyndham, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Philip K. Dick, A. E. Van Vogt and others. Many of these stories are novellas, such as Van Vogt's "The Weapon Shops of Isher."
LibraryThing member majackson
This was one of the free books I acquired when I first joined the SFBC back in 1960 (or so). And, after all these years, it's still one of the best compilations I've ever read. While only one of the stories is mediocre the rest are well in the range of exceptional sociological studies on the human
For all of the woe in the world today—and especially taking into account Ray Bradbury’s elegy to the loss of all our fears : ‘Pillar of fire’—this is one “feel-good” collection.
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condition. ‘Re-Birth’ by John Wyndham has been published in other collects since then, but is still a concise answer to how/why mankind can hope to survive Armageddon. ‘The Shape of Things That Came’—by Richard Derming--shames us in our failure to appreciate what humanity has accomplished in just a few years. And only ‘The Weapon Shops of Isher’ by van Vogt could end the book by providing a reasonable solution to the Creation Story.For all of the woe in the world today—and especially taking into account Ray Bradbury’s elegy to the loss of all our fears : ‘Pillar of fire’—this is one “feel-good” collection.
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Original language
English
Original publication date
1959 (collection)