About this book
THE MOST EXCITING FICTION OF OUR TIME! -- -- The most dynamic fiction of out time, science fiction is also the fastest-expanding, both in readership and in the range of authors who employ it. The established masters - mostly Americans, a few Englishmen -- continue to show the way. The established outlets -- American s-f magazines mostly, some original anthologies -- continue to provide most of its nurture. But faithful reading of a handful of American publications is no longer sufficient to keep up with the most exciting work being done.
Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss have established this series as definitive in the field by looking much further afield. This year's selection is built around the established sources, but includes also a brilliant take by the Brazillian Andre Carneiro; and astonishing and delightful story by a young Ghanaian, Victor Sabah; and other unexpected pleasures.
Contents:
Introduction, essay by Harry Harrison
In the Matter of the Assassin Merefirs, shortstory by Ken W. Purdy
As for Our Fatal Continuity . . ., shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
The Old Folks, shortstory by James E. Gunn
From Sea to Shining Sea, shortstory by Jonathan Ela
Weihnachtabend, novelette by Keith Roberts
The Years, shortstory by Robert F. Young
Darkness, shortstory by Andre Carneiro
Cymbal Player, poem by Lawrence Sail
Report from the Planet Proteus, poem by Lawrence Sail
Columbus on St. Domenica, poem by John Cotton
After Death, poem by Patricia Beer
Faex Delenda Est, poem by Theodore R. Cogswell
Words of Warning, shortstory by Alex Hamilton
Out, Wit!, shortstory by Howard L. Myers
An Imaginary Journey to the Moon, shortstory by Victor Sabah
The Head and the Hand, shortstory by Christopher Priest
Hero, novella by Joe Haldeman
Afterword: The Year of the Big Spring Clean, essay by Brian W. Aldiss
About Harry Harrison
Harry Max Harrison was born Henry Maxwell Dempsey in Stamford, Connecticut. He moved with his family to New York early in his childhood. On his 18th birthday, having graduated from high school, he was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Corps, and serves as an armourer, gunnery instructor, truck driver, and military police officer. When the war ended, he became an art student at both the Hunter College in New York City and the Cartoonists and Illustrators School. Upon graduation, he became a freelance graphic artist, providing illustrations for book covers, magazines, and comic books such as Weird Fantasy and Weird Science. He also began contributing articles to these magazines. In 1952, he moved into editing pulp magazines such as Amazing Stories and Fantastic. In 1954 he married, and their first child was born in 1955. In 1956 he became a full-time writer, and began working on his first book in addition to writing for other publications such as The Saint syndicated comic strips. Over the next decade he and his family moved to several places, including Mexico, England, Italy, back to New York for the birth of their second child in 1959, to Denmark for seven years, back to England in 1965, San Diego in 1967, and finally Ireland in 1975 where they settled. Harrison produced over 60 books, occasionally in collaboration with other well-known writers such as Gordon R. Dickson.
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