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Science Fiction Hall Of Fame Volume II: Edited by Robert Silverberg
Science Fiction Hall Of Fame Volume II: Edited by Robert Silverberg
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The cream of sci-fi published before 1965. In this fabulous collection: That Only a Mother, Judith Merril: Radiation causes mutations in a large percentage of children - and how does a mother perceive her mutated child? Scanners Live In Vain, Cordwainer Smith: Scanners - once human, now more machine than man, creatures with the ability to travel between the stars. But then, the scanners are threatened by a new technology they believe will make them obsolete...Mars Is Heaven! Ray Bradbury: Astronauts finally land on an unexpected Mars - one that seems like their idyllic youth and what's more, their deceased relatives are waiting to welcome them. The Little Black Bag: C.M. Kornbluth: A doctor's bag from the future is sent backwards in time - and is found by a derelict alcoholic, a former doctor, who is inspired to begin healing again. ComingAttraction, Fritz Leiber: In a possible future, a woman's face is considered the ultimate in sexual attractiveness, and so - women must go around veiled. The Quest For Saint Aquin, Anthony Boucher : Can Science and God ever be reconciled? In a future where religion is considered irrational and is persecuted, a priest must find a relic to prove the existence of God. Surface Tension, James Blish: If mankind was in danger of dying out, how might we repopulate? Will we go back to the sea, and re-emerge...? The Nine Billion Names of God, Arthur C. Clarke: The monks are content to know that God has nine billion names, but there's always someone who wants to know everything - and there are some things we are not ready to know...It's A GOOD Life - Jerome Bixby: Anthony looks like any other little boy - but he has the ability to read the thoughts of everyone and create anything he likes out of his imagination - and the small town is terrified of him...This story was made into a Twilight Zone episode in 1961 starring Billy Mumy; The Cold Equations, Tom Godwin: A starship pilot is inexplicably too low on fuel to reach his destination - and the cause turns out to be a pretty stowaway. Fondly Farenheit, Alfred Bester: A psychotic android and its paranoid schizophrenic owner? Sounds like too much of a good thing...The Country of the Kind, Damon Knight: The story of a sociopath and a kind society's reactions to and treatment of him - is it ethical to medically interfere in behavioural aberrations? What about free will? Should anti-social behaviour of an individual be acceptable? Flowers For Algernon, Daniel Keyes: Charlie has a low I.Q. and longs to be intelligent, yet he studies and tries to learn and gets nowhere. When he is given the chance for a surgical procedure that will make him intelligent it looks like his dreams will come true. The surgery is a success, yet he finds that those he believed to be his friends are not and moreover, he knows more than the doctors do...
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Paperback; SCARCE EDITION; no spine creases; slight bend in back cover; light foxing on half-title page; tightly bound and clean within; plastic cover, Sci-Fi/UFOShare
