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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. An OK selection of stories from one year's issues of Analog magazine - in this case 1967, and put together here in July 1970. Campbell as an editor certainly wasn't going new wave. This was not much better a collection than Analog 6 which covered the year 1966, and a handful of stories save this from the trash heap. This was a large anthology for the time that included the following: Aim for the Heel • (1967) • novelette by John T. Phillifent Fiesta Brava • United Planets • (1967) • novella by Mack Reynolds Free Vacation • (1967) • short story by Wallace Macfarlane The Featherbedders • (1967) • novelette by Frank Herbert Weyr Search • (1967) • novella by Anne McCaffrey Lost Calling • (1967) • short story by Verge Foray The Last Command • (1967) • short story by Keith Laumer Dead End • (1967) • short story by Mike Hodous There Is a Crooked Man • (1967) • novella by Jack Wodhams Elementary Mistake • (1967) • short story by Poul Anderson Burden of Proof • (1967) • short story by Bob Shaw The blurb on the cover says "Eleven excellent science fiction stories ranging from the ends of the galaxy to the mafia of the future." Hmmm. My comments on some of the stories: Included in here among the good stories is 'Weyr Search', the first story by Anne McCaffrey in what would become her famous and long running Dragonriders of Pern series. It won the 1968 Hugo award for best novella. I hadn't read it in a very long time and was glad to do so. For a 50 year old tale it held up better than I thought it might. It was the highlight of this collection for me. A bit darker than I remembered but still, this is one of the stories that got my hooked on the genre long ago. Makes me want to try and reread some of the books in the series. The first story here, "Aim for the Heel" immediately makes me think of Achilles, and the appropriateness of the title didn't dawn on me until the end of this rather old-fashioned but good piece of storytelling. On the downside I thought two of the longest stories were also among the weakest. "Fiesta Brava" annoyed me, increasingly, until I gave up on it. I can't believe people read and enjoyed stuff like that one! Then, “There is a Crooked Man” by Jack Wodhams was just a bit too creepy as well as uninteresting so I didn't finish this one either. Some people must think it worthwhile however because the story is included in a large anthology of 50 years of the best Australian Science Fiction Writing published in 2005. Frank Herbert's The Featherbedders" and Verge Foray's "Lost Calling" were both entertaining with a bit of humor to them. Laumer's Bolo tale about a buried tank coming to life to fight its last battle was also pretty good and also a bit touching. The last story, "Burden of Proof" was Bob Shaw's follow-up to the superb "Light of Other Days." I thought it good, but I am biased in favor of the slow glass stories and Bob Shaw's storytelling. Overall too much space was wasted on poor stories but there were some good ones. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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