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Chargement... Where Do We Go from Here? (1971)par Isaac Asimov (Directeur de publication)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. As seems standard for me with any book of short stories, I loved some of the stories, liked some of the stories, and was indifferent toward one or two of them. The 4-star rating is for the collection as a whole. It's certainly a must-read for any fan of classic science fiction. My favorite stories in this collection are: "And He Built a Crooked House" by Robert A. Heinlein "A Subway Named Mobius" by A.J. Deutsch "Surface Tension" by James Blish "The Big Bounce" by Walter S. Tevis This collection of science fiction stories written between 1934 and 1966 was published with the intention to "inspire curiosity" and "lead the student into lines of questioning of his own". To that end, Dr. Asimov followed each tale with a brief commentary and some questions related to the ideas used on the story. I originally bought this book for a high school course in science fiction. In that class, we never did use the questions, focusing instead on the literary aspects of the stories. Nor did I ever pursue Dr. Asimov's questions on my own. But, by golly, I certainly did enjoy the stories themselves, hanging onto the book for all these years. It's classic science fiction from the mid-20th Century. Man is often the master of his domain, either by conquering his environment or by inventing wonders that astound. Of course, that observation is what I picked up in my 2012 reading of the tales. What originally endeared me to the book is the variety of concepts and the well written stories that explored those ideas. Hopefully, Dr. Asimov wouldn't have been a too disappointed in my response, missing his goal as it does. --J. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieWhere Do We Go From Here? (Complete) Appartient à la série éditorialeScience Fiction Book Club (3410) ContientProof par Hal Clement Heavy Planet {short story} par Lee Gregor (indirect) Heavy Planet [short fiction] par Milton A. Rothman (indirect) The Big Bounce [short story] par Walter S. Tevis (indirect)
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My quibbles are predictable. The book gives a good survey of science fiction through the ages, starting in 1931, but as it was published in 1971 we don't get any up-to-date content. So we have an outdated focus on Mars as being a life-bearing planet and some strange incongruities: space-farers who use telephones with a "hook" and cameras with "film". Secondly, as mentioned, a complete lack of diversity. Aliens, it seems, were less improbable than female protagonists to the collection of male authors here.
I'd actually love to see the concept re-done for our modern era, incorporating a greater variety of authors and showing how our sci-fi concepts have evolved into the new millenium. ( )