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The Good Old Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition
| Author: | Gardner Dozois |
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St. Martin's Griffin, 1998 |
| Series: | Good Stuff: Book 1 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Nineteen-ninety-nine looms near and yet the stars are still far away... but this anthology brings them closer with more than a dozen of the best SF adventure stories ever written. Among the gems collected here are "The New Prime," by Jack Vance, " Fritz Leiber's "Moon Duel," and "The Sky People," by Poul Anderson, along with masterpieces by less-familiar names such as Murray Leinster and James H. Schmitz.
With more than a dozen stories (written between 1940 and 1970) from greats such as Brian W. Aldiss, Leigh Brackett, L. Sprague de Camp, and A. E. van Vogt, this anthology ranges throughout our galaxy and into the stars. Whether you're revisiting past adventures or discovering these stories for the first time, you're sure to thrill to these wonderful adventures across the vast expanse of space.
Table of Contents:
- Preface - essay by Gardner Dozois
- The Rull - (1948) - novelette by A. E. van Vogt
- The Second Night of Summer - (1950) - novelette by James H. Schmitz
- The Galton Whistle - (1951) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
- The New Prime - (1951) - novelette by Jack Vance
- That Share of Glory - (1952) - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
- The Last Days of Shandakor - (1952) - novelette by Leigh Brackett
- Exploration Team - (1956) - novelette by Murray Leinster
- The Sky People - (1959) - novelette by Poul Anderson
- The Man in the Mailbag - (1959) - novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
- Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons - (1961) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
- A Kind of Artistry - (1962) - novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
- Gunpowder God - (1964) - novella by H. Beam Piper
- Semley's Necklace - (1964) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Moon Duel - (1965) - short story by Fritz Leiber
- The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth - (1965) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
- Mother in the Sky With Diamonds - (1971) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
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