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Posts: 5567 (03/13/06 23:58:56) Simulacrum Cretin |
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eldritch00 |
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Posts: 162 (03/14/06 03:55:32) Starsip Commander |
I have no idea when that will be, but I'll be sure to post any news about it over here. While I haven't read Hartwell and Cramer's SF anthologies, I quite enjoy their horror anthologies, so this is something I feel will be quite an interesting little volume in terms of story selection and the like.
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eldritch00 |
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Posts: 162 (03/21/06 03:43:18) Starsip Commander |
While I love anthologies (and single-author collections), most of my stuff is predominantly horror fiction. The irony, given this board, is that I have none of the Hartwell-Cramer anthologies for SF, just several for horror!
(And no, I don't even have either of the Dangerous Visions anthologies edited by Harlan Ellison.) As for others, I don't have even the annual anthologies (Dozois, Strahan, etc.), at least not yet. I'm hoping to pick up the latest Dozois, primarily for the Caitlin R. Kiernan story but also as a chance to sample contemporary short SF. Now lest this post be turned into what anthologies I don't have...  Anthologies: the now-seminal Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology, edited by Bruce Sterling In Dreams, edited by Paul J. McAuley and Kim Newman, described as "a celebration of the 7-inch single in all-original SF and horror fiction" the rather unusual yet fascinating Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader, edited by Robin Scott Wilson, which does not just include a dozen short stories but essays on a certain aspect of the writing craft from the authors themselves As for single-author collections, one of my favorites of all time in any genre is William Gibson's Burning Chrome. Funnily enough, I have two books I also consider as collections even if I always read them straight through, because they're stronger that way: Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and Jeff Noon's absolutely inventive Pixel Juice. And then there's Richard Matheson's The Incredible Shrinking Man, although there seems to be slightly more horror content than SF there. |
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criminalenglish |
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Posts: 1494 (03/21/06 04:13:19) Galactic Administrator |
Hey, someone else who'se read Noon! Why not slap up an author thread about him?
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eldritch00 |
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Starsip Commander
Posts: 162 (03/21/06 06:31:52) Starsip Commander |
I'd love to...but Pixel Juice is the only one I've read so far. I'll gather a few links and see what I can do. My sister is just gaga over his work.
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Custer1 |
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Posts: 5603 (03/22/06 06:28:04) Man of Tomorrow |
Just taking a random anthology off my shelf, here's a 1963 UK paperback edition, from Consul Books, of "Time To Come", edited by August Derleth ("editor of 'The Outer Reaches'); it cost 3 shillings and 6 pence originally for 192 pages (though going by the price marked on the inside front cover, I got it second-hand for half that), and, reading the introduction, I see that the stories were specially written for the book, which appeared in the US in 1954:
BUTCH by Poul Anderson THE PAUSE by Isaac Asimov KEEPER OF THE DREAM by Charles Beaumont NO MORNING AFTER by Arthur C. Clarke THE BLIGHT by Arthur J. Cox HOLE IN THE SKY by Irving Cox Jr. JON'S WORLD by Philip K. Dick "We are living today in the tomorrow foreseen by the science-fiction writers of a previous generation. How close we may be to the tomorrow foreseen by contemporary writers of science fiction we do not know. Read these provocative stories - and wait to find out."      |
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ljim2000 |
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Posts: 5567 (04/29/06 07:28:41) Simulacrum Cretin |
This comes originally from our newest Board member samfield. I'm not familiar with the anthology he writes about, but it sure sounds great! Hopefully a few of our local SF experts have more to contribute:
Good morning! Does anyone else remember this little whitman anthology (edited by ross olney) from 1969? It featured Robert Silverberg's "Birds of a Feather", Frederic Brown's "Puppet Show", William Campbell Gault's "Fog", Sir Arthur Clarke's "All the Time in the World", Jack Finney's "Of Missing Persons", and clever short sytories by Poul Anderson, Larry Sternig, and Keith Laumer. I've met several people who have strong memories of this book. Some say it was aimed at teens, some say it has something of a cult status. I did read it as a teen, and it certainly affected my thinking about fiction in general (especially William Campbell Gault's heavy "Fog"), and I wondered if anyone else had thoughts about it's status, and what it may have meant to them? 
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samfield |
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hi, thanks! p.s. the anthology was called "Tales of Time and Space". Hope some of you know it!
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temperflash |
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Posts: 337 (04/29/06 14:04:44) Space Station Bureaucrat |
I don't remember ever seeing that book or reading any of the stories you mentioned but you have peaked my interest.
I'll certainly be looking for that one. It sounds like just the sort of stories I really get into. |
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criminalenglish |
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Posts: 1494 (05/01/06 20:14:50) Galactic Administrator |
Yes, it sounds like something I'd really enjoy, too.
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eldritch00 |
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Starsip Commander
Posts: 162 (05/04/06 02:49:13) Starsip Commander |
Question: What's stranger than travel book publishers Lonely Planet releasing an anthology of fiction?
Answer: The fact that this is only one of three such books they've released (the other two, as far as I know, are not speculative fiction).  After an introduction by Broderick (I'm still looking out for a copy of his The God-Players) come several stories which are, as can be expected from the publishers, all about travel. It seems that based on reviews, however, that they're not all set in other planets, as the title would indicate: Quote: A couple of reviews: one from Steven H. Silver for SFSite and another from a blogger who apparently is a fan of Iain M. Banks. 
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ljim2000 |
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Posts: 5567 (05/04/06 06:23:42) Simulacrum Cretin |
That's a great list of old and new masters they've culled too! Thanks for posting the beautiful cover.
Off topic but, still related in a broader sense, I once again urge everybody to participate in this fun Fan Survey our affiliates posted over in the Internet forum! |
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criminalenglish |
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Posts: 1494 (05/04/06 20:33:35) Galactic Administrator |
That's a great collection of authors! Anything with WOlfe, Varley, Russ, Aldiss and Silveberg on it must be worth a look. It'sfascinating and cool that Lonely Planet would take on such a project. Do you own this book, eldritch?
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eldritch00 |
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Posts: 162 (05/04/06 20:35:55) Starsip Commander |
I don't really own it. It's the "collective property" of the Deparment I teach in. We have no idea whose it was originally, but anyone's allowed to bring home any of the titles on the shelves, so this one's with me now!
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Custer1 |
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Posts: 5603 (05/09/06 03:22:03) Man of Tomorrow |
What a nice idea. I wonder if Damien Broderick works with the Lonely Planet people, for them to come together like that? The only books by him I've got are an Australian short story collection from Horwitz Publications, "A Man Returned" (1965), and a Signet 1970 reprint of "Sorcerer's World", which also came from Horwitz in the first place. "The fate of two worlds hung on the strength of his sword"!
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Posts: 133 (05/09/06 11:50:41) Starship Commander |
The first SF anthology I bought was Robert Silverberg's Science Fiction 101 (previously published as Worlds of Wonder), and it remains the only one I've read which lives up to its blurb. There are so many classics here, from Philip K. Dick's 'Colony' to Bob Shaw's 'Light of Other Days (AKA the one with the slow glass). Silverberg also provides analysis of each story, very useful for those interested in the craft of writing.
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!" |
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temperflash |
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Posts: 337 (05/09/06 19:01:47) Space Station Bureaucrat |
I recently recovered one of my old sci fi books which was not destroyed by the windstorms here some years back. 200 mile an hour winds in some places one whole town destroyed and my storage build left propped against the house at a 45 degree angle with books scatted every where and hundreds waterlogged.
Anyway I dug this one out of a box i salvaged at the time and forgot. Its "the Big book of Science Fiction" though not very big at that. I'll tell you more about it when I remember where I put it this time. While looking for it I just found another I'd nearly forgotten. Robert A Heinlein's "the Green Hills of Earth". A Signet Book first printing 1952, slight water marking along the topp of the pages but still sound though showing its age and many readings. Delilah and the Space Rigger Space jockey The Long Watch Gentlemen be Seated The Black Pits of Luna It's Great to be Back "-We Also Walk Dogs" Ordeal in Space The Green Hills of Earth Logic of Empire The cover art is striking and strange. four spacesuited figures, two of whom are man handling long rayguns of some sort in an odd manner each with one hand on one guns grip and the other on the other guns fore end, an image I still find interestingly posed. Theres also a very tall black man whose face plate is open though the others have theirs closed and the terrain looks airless like the Moon. |
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eldritch00 |
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Posts: 162 (05/09/06 22:11:02) Starsip Commander |
I can't say for certain, but I would imagine that Broderick was "commissioned" by the Lonely Planet publishers to come up with the anthology, perhaps as some sort of one-off deal. It's a wonderful idea, and its "obviousness" doesn't detract from the excellent selection in it.
As for reading Broderick, I haven't done so yet. I'm still on the lookout for his more recent novels. |
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eldritch00 |
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Starsip Commander
Posts: 162 (05/09/06 22:16:33) Starsip Commander |
Vefantur, that sounds fascinating, and if you're interested in another anthology in which much can be learned given that the editor has a more-or-less explicit purpose of teaching the craft, you might also be interested in the anthology I mentioned above: Robin Scott Wilson (ed.)'s Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader.
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eldritch00 |
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Starsip Commander
Posts: 162 (05/09/06 22:19:00) Starsip Commander |
While I've never read Heinlein, temperflash's description of the cover art gracing his edition of that collection caught my eye. And so does the image of the cover itself:
 Thank you, Google Image Search! |
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