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Tales from the Planet Earth
| Author: | Frederik Pohl Elizabeth Anne Hull |
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St. Martin's Press, 1986 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
In this collaborative novel of international science fiction, Frederik Pohl and Elizabeth Anne Hull have compiled nineteen facets of a single dilemma, the fantastic situation oh human beings and aliens coexisting in one body. Each story's plot is organized around this single theme, but the voices that color each telling come from all corners of the world.
Table of Contents:
- Report From the Planet Earth - essay by Frederik Pohl
- The Last Word - essay by Elizabeth Anne Hull
- Sitting Around the Pool, Soaking Up the Rays - (1984) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl
- The Thursday Events - shortstory by Ye Yonglie
- User Friendly - shortstory by Spider Robinson
- Life as an Ant - shortstory by André Carneiro
- Fiddling for Waterbuffaloes - (1986) - novelette by S. P. Somtow
- S Is for Snake - shortstory by Lino Aldani (trans. of S come serpente)
- The Divided Carla - novelette by Josef Nesvadba (trans. of Rozštepená Karla 1985)
- The View from the Top of the Tower - (1986) - shortstory by Harry Harrison
- Don't Knock the Rock - shortstory by A. Bertram Chandler
- The Owl of Bear Island - shortstory by Jon Bing (trans. of Ugle på Bjørnøya)
- Contacts of a Fourth Kind - shortstory by Ljuben Dilov (translation form Russian original 1985)
- Infestation - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
- In the Blink of an Eye - shortstory by Carlos Maria Federici
- Particularly Difficult Territory - shortstory by Janusz A. Zajdel (trans. of Wyjatkowo trudny teren)
- Time Everlasting - shortstory by Sam J. Lundwall
- The Middle Kingdom - shortstory by Tong Enzheng and Elizabeth Anne Hull
- On the Inside Track - novelette by Karl Michael Armer (trans. of Umkreisungen)
- The Legend of the Paper Spaceship - (1983) - novelette by Tetsu Yano (translation for Japanese original 1978)
- We Servants of the Stars - shortstory by Frederik Pohl
- Notes on Contributors - essay by uncredited
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