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Publisher Jim Baen joins two of his top authors to collect the stories which made them SF readers in their youth and fitted them to make major impacts on the SF field today. The quality of the stories in this huge volume compares favorably with that of any collection in the past fifty years--there's been nothing of equal size and quality since Groff Conklin's Omnibus of Science Fiction in 1952. Nevertheless the selection wasn't through some would-be objective standard but rather by a deliberately subjective process: these are the stories which, when the editors read them, turned their worlds around. Each story was picked because of the emotional charge it gave one or more of the editors on first reading. The story sources range from Analog to Weird Tales, the first appearances from the early '30s to the mid '60s. Many were written by the greatest names in the SF field. These are stories that made the editors think and feel. They will do the same for you.
- Sales Rank: #2636279 in Books
- Published on: 2006-06-01
- Released on: 2006-06-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.25" h x 1.30" w x 6.12" l, 1.75 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 752 pages
From Booklist
Emulating You've Got to Read This (1994), this sizable collection consists of stories that influenced famous writers during their upbringings. The difference is that this is a genre anthology and the influenced authors in question are the editors; these are their personal favorites. Given those limitations, the chosen tales are varied and entertaining, and the work of relative unknowns as well as late, great genre veterans. The enduring classics include Arthur C. Clarke's "Rescue Party," featuring aliens who scour Earth for survivors before the sun goes nova; John W. Campbell's "Who Goes There?" which inspired the Hollywood monster flick The Thing; and Isaac Asimov's "The Last Question," which speculatively traces the evolution of computer intelligence into the far future. One surprising entry is an early sf tale on interstellar exploration by Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novelist Michael Shaara. With the emphasis on pulp sf from the 1940s and '50s, fans get to discover some lost gems among the forgotten (and remembered) classics. Carl Hays
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About the Author
David Drake was attending Duke University Law School when he was drafted. He served the next two years in the Army, spending 1970 as an enlisted interrogator with the 11th armored Cavalry in Viet Nam and Cambodia. Upon return he completed his law degree at Duke and was for eight years Assistant Town Attorney for Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He has been a full-time freelance writer since 1981. Besides the bestselling Hammer's Slammers series, his books for Baen include With the Lightnings and its sequel Lt. Leary, Commanding, Ranks of Bronze, Starliner, All the Way to the Gallows, Redliners, and many more. His most recent novels are Paying the Piper, a new Hammer's Slammers novel, and The Far Side of the Stars, the latest in the popular Lt. Leary series.
Jim Baen has been the editor of Galaxy magazine, of Ace Books, of Tor Books, and has for two decades helmed Baen Books, a powerhouse in science fiction publishing and the world's leading publisher of military science fiction.
Eric Flint's impressive first novel, Mother of Demons (Baen), was selected by SF Chronicle as one of the best novels of 1997. His next solo novel, 1632, sold out its first hardcover printing and went back to press almost immediately, and received enthusiastic critical praise. With David Drake he has written five popular novels in the Belisarius series. Flint has also begun a highly-praised fantasy adventure series, so far comprising The Philosophical Strangler and Forward the Mage. Flint received his masters degree in history from UCLA and was for many years a labor union activist. He lives in East Chicago, IN, with his wife.
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17 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
A big pile of great stuff you've probably read already
By HaloJonesFan
I'm conflicted about how to review this, because--on the one hand--I'd read a good three-quarters of the stuff in it before (in some cases, quite a long time before.) On the other hand, there was some new stuff, and the "liner notes" for each story were often interesting. You could probably put together a very good literature class around the stories in this volume.
On the gripping hand...riffing on classic sci-fi is a bit pretentious.
Anyway...as with most compilations of early sci-fi, this is a good selection of famous short stories. If you're looking for a book to get someone started on science fiction (or trying to give some culture to someone who buys John Ringo for the covers) then you couldn't go far wrong with "World Turned Upside-Down". Be warned, though, that the content in some of the stories is a rather PG-13 (and some of them involve themes that younger kids simply won't get.)
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Not Free SF Reader
By average
The three editors in this case have put together a selection of stories that influenced them as kids, some are obscure, some most definitely not. Certainly an interesting bunch, and definitely no junk here.
Rescue Party - Arthur C. Clarke
The Menace from Earth - Robert A. Heinlein
Code Three [Clay Ferguson] - Rick Raphael
Hunting Problem - Robert Sheckley
Black Destroyer [Beagle] - A. E. van Vogt
A Pail of Air - Fritz Leiber
Thy Rocks and Rills - Robert Ernest Gilbert
A Gun for Dinosaur [Reginald Rivers]
Goblin Night [Telzey Amberdon] - James H. Schmitz
The Only Thing We Learn - C. M. Kornbluth
Trigger Tide - Wyman Guin
The Aliens - Murray Leinster
All the Way Back - Michael Shaara
The Last Command [Bolo] - Keith Laumer
Who Goes There? [as by Don A. Stuart] - John W. Campbell, Jr.
Quietus - Ross Rocklynne
Answer - Fredric Brown
The Last Question - Isaac Asimov
The Cold Equations - Tom Godwin
Shambleau [Northwest Smith] - C. L. Moore
Turning Point - Poul Anderson
Heavy Planet [with Frederik Pohl] - Lee Gregor
Omnilingual - H. Beam Piper
The Gentle Earth - Christopher Anvil
Environment - Chester S. Geier
Liane the Wayfarer [Dying Earth] - Jack Vance
Spawn - P. Schulyer Miller
St. Dragon and the George [Jim Eckert] - Gordon R. Dickson
Thunder and Roses - Theodore Sturgeon
An alien survey ship is surprised to find that the Earth system sun is going nova well ahead of schedule, and gets in trouble itself when it goes to look for people to save and can't find signs of life, until much later.
3.5 out of 5
The cozy friendship between two teenage would be spaceship designers on the moon is interrupted when a well built actress from Earth arrives from a holiday, utilising both their services as guides.
4 out of 5
Future traffic policing is a 24 hour a day live in your vehicle job for these officers. Their banter is very entertaining.
3.5 out of 5
Alien scouts go for gruesome merit badge.
3 out of 5
A ship's crew lands on a planet and meets an alien with extraordinarily dangerous abilities.
3.5 out of 5
A dark star interloper rips the earth out of its orbit, and everything freezes. One family finds a way to construct a shelter to survive the freezing.
3.5 out of 5
A man and his mutant bull rebel against their society's liking for violence.
3.5 out of 5
History full of blowing stuff up and big fat fibs.
3.5 out of 5
Secret agent man gadget sabotage predictions.
3.5 out of 5
For friendly encounters, get rid of the xenophobic psychos.
4 out of 5
Aggressive sleepers may be waiting.
3.5 out of 5
A Bolo is a cybernetic supertank, basically. In this story, an old inactive one comes to life.
3 out of 5
A discovery of a lifeform buried in the Antarctic ice causes serious problems for an isolated research team.
5 out of 5
Crow not as smart as it looks.
3.5 out of 5
Computer god.
3 out of 5
Immortal humans breed too fast for the universe.
4 out of 5
Kid is a waste of oxygen.
5 out of 5
Shoot vampire gorgon women, don't ask them in for dinner.
4.5 out of 5
Assimilating smart people is key.
4 out of 5
Tough conditions for deadly conflict.
3.5 out of 5
Archaelogists working on the extinct Martian civilisation discover a different sort of Rosetta stone.
4.5 out of 5
Alien invasion couldn't stand the weather.
4 out of 5
The city can change people, and also learn 'em.
3 out of 5
Stuff is not very likely, especially spores from space making a mangod facsimile.
3.5 out of 5
Human, dragon and knight team-up vs the bad guys.
3.5 out of 5
With everything nuked, limitation, hope and waiting is all that can be done.
4.5 out of 5
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Mixed Bag of Old SciFi
By Donald J. Bingle
Far from a collection of the best scifi of the last seventy-five years, this is, instead, a gathering of scifi stories that the editors thought were noteworthy when they encountered them long ago (or in some cases, other stories by authors they thought were noteworthy for their novel length efforts). Some are genuinely great or noteworthy because of their impact on the field (e.g., Thunder and Roses), but far too many are ponderously long, like those Twilight Zone episodes of yesteryear that had reasonably cool ideas, but just were twice as long as they needed to be (e.g., Code Three, The Gentle Earth). Others have admittedly illogical plots (e.g., The Cold Equations) or are admittedly filled with purple prose (e.g., Spawn). Too many of the editorial comments before and after the stories touch on what wasn't included because it was too long or too often anthologized elsewhere. I would have preferred more editorial comments on the chronological context of the stories and on what they influenced or were influenced by in the field of science fiction writing. The simple mechanics of indicating the year of the story at its beginning (you can check the copyright info at the front if you want to flip back and forth) would have been helpful and interesting. I also agree with other reviewers that the title and the cover of the anthology are misleading, suggesting alternate history stories (the actual theme is revealed in the text on the inside jacket--but you shouldn't have to read that to get the feel of an anthology's theme). Overall, not as good or as instructive as I had hoped it would be.
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