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Summary: 50 short science fiction tales
Review: does anyone know if this collection contains "liar"? Please email me at jecedy@yahoo.com if you do.
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Summary: I just have a question to anyone who has read this?
Review: Does the collection contain a story called "The Veldt"? Pleae email me at noolib@hotmail.com
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Summary: I just have a question to anyone who has read this?
Review: Does the collection contain a story called "The Veldt"? Pleae email me at noolib@hotmail.com
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Summary: I just have a question to anyone who has read this?
Review: Does the collection contain a story called "The Veldt"? Pleae email me at noolib@hotmail.com
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Summary: Great bite-size Science Fiction for fans and newcomers
Review: I have read this book 5 years ago. The stories are great and the writing techniques superb. Some stories are only a page long and yet they will stay in your head for a long long time. I loaned my first copy to a friend and he lost it! Bought the second copy from Amazon and promised myself not to lend it out again! Read it and get hooked to Science Fiction if you are not already a fan.
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Summary: very enjoyable
Review: I normally stay away from edited (multi-authored) short story collections, but after reading several of the stories while standing in the bookstore (yes, some are just ONE page), I had to purchase it. The stories are from the "old school" of sci-fi (rockets and pulp-style settings), but these stories rely more on message than science, so it's not really noticed. Do yourself a favor and grab it. I do have to disagree with Asimov's introduction, however...
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Summary: Some treats from the past.
Review: If you like really short SF stories then you should read this book. It contains a lot of them and they are good. They are also short. The book packs fifty stories plus introductions etc into less than 300 pages. The collection was first issued in the early sixties and the stories themselves come from the forties and fifties. SF is a rapidly changing medium and, with an average age of half a century, many of these stories now show their age. But that does not really detract from their quality. After all, this collection features the greatest SF talents of the era. If forced to pick a favourite from the collection, I'd choose "The Available Data on the Worp Reaction" by Lion Miller but there are so many good tales in here that naming one alone is an injustice to the others.
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Summary: Thank you, used book stores!
Review: Since I am a "bathroom reader", short stories always interested me. The short stories in this book are *very* short (about 5 or 6 pages each). It must take some talent to complete a whole story in such a space, and to do so so well. The editors did a great job of selecting stories that I consider classic science fiction. Pity they don't publish it anymore.
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Summary: Thank you, used book stores!
Review: Since I am a "bathroom reader", short stories always interested me. The short stories in this book are *very* short (about 5 or 6 pages each). It must take some talent to complete a whole story in such a space, and to do so so well. The editors did a great job of selecting stories that I consider classic science fiction. Pity they don't publish it anymore.
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Summary: Great bite-size Science Fiction for fans and newcomers
Review: The only complaint about this book is that the stories are sometimes so short that the characters cannot be developed. But the themes are excellent. Like poetry, just the skeletal outline of the plot will please you. Three of my favorites (relying on memory, I read this book years ago) were A.C. Clarke's story of the haunted space suit, "Columbus is a dope" by ? (both ironically comical) and the provocative "hunted aliens". I think the excellent "Time Machine and Dinosaur Hunter" story is in here too, but I'm not sure. Also read Jorge Luis Borges "Labyrinths" (one anthology) for a better treatment of the same theme (short stories with a sci-fi element).
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