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First published in 1981, by editors Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg. This Genre Anthology contains thirteen Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1944, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette. The introduction describes "the world outside reality" first, marking significant historical events, sports trivia, and literary publications. The "real world" is the science fiction and fantasy pop culture, the birth of what many in the 1970s were calling the Golden Age of Science Fiction. |
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The Slow Path: In "Far Centaurus", a Short Story by A.E. van Vogt, the protagonists are travelling to the Centarus system to prove a Sleeper Starship is capable of travelling the vast distances of interstellar space. However, they neglected the progress of science on Earth, and discover that there's already people who have been there for generations. |
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Actually Not a Vampire: Leigh Brackett's "The Veil Of Astellar": Goat admits Galley's assumption that he isn't human is correct, but he's not the sort of "vampire" that can be frightened by the touch of a crucifix. |
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Energy Beings: Theodore Sturgeon's "Killdozer": A pre-human race on earth exists only as a cloud-like grouping of tangible electrons. |
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Pen Name: "When The Bough Breaks" is credited to Lewis Padgett, a penname used by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore. |
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Lightspeed Leapfrog: A.E. van Vogt's "Far Centaurus": A group of four are trying to be the first to reach Alpha Centauri, but along the way somebody up and goes and discovers Faster-Than-Light Travel, making their effort entirely pointless. |
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Homicide Machines: Theodore Sturgeon's "Killdozer": The titular machine does more than just move earth; |
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Future Slang: A.E. van Vogt's "Far Centaurus": The four space explorers learn that the common tongue they had spoken has gradually changed and shifted, altering over time. The one example given (since their translator studied middle period American for years to be ready to help them), "Yes" is more commonly pronounced "Yeih". |
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Set Right What Once Went Wrong: In "When The Bough Breaks", a team of super-evolved men from the future travel back in time to meet the first of their kind and teach him how to use his powers to their full extent. In the original timeline, the first superhuman had to figure out his powers on his own, which slowed down his development. |
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Evolutionary Levels: The protagonists of "When The Bough Breaks" find out that their son is the first of a "more evolved" human subspecies with Super Intelligence and Psychic Powers. |
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Biography: Each story is prefaced by a short description of why this story (from this author) was chosen to represent one of the thirteen best stories of the year along with a paragraph from Isaac Asimov's perspective. |
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Pyrrhic Victory: Fredric Brown's "Arena": It's predicted that if the conflict escalates to all-out war, the losing side will be wiped out and the "winners" will be reduced to pre-technological barbarism. |
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Shout-Out: In the introduction, multiple works are mentioned as being first published or becoming hits in 1944: Agostino, by Alberto Moravia Mel Brooks is singled out as still using the name Melvin Kaminsky. Captain Future is singled out for no longer getting published. Christ On The Cross, painted by Graham Sutherland The Condition Of Man, by Lewis Mumford Four Quartets, by T. S. Eliot The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams Henry V, the 1944 adaptation starring Lawrence Olivier. Herodias, by Paul Hindemith The Lady And The Monster, a film adaptation of Curt Siodmak's Donovans Brain. Psychology And Religion, by Carl Jung Lifeboat Renaissance, by creator/Raymond F Jones The Riddle Of The Tower, by JD Beresford and Esme Wynne Tyson Sirius, by Olaf Stapledon "This Means War", by A. Bertram Chandler The Time For Decision, by Sumner Welles The White Cliffs Of Dover Worlds Beginning, by Robert Ardrey Zola PJ Plauger, James Sallis, Bruce Pennington, Stanley Schmidt, Georege Lucas, Katherine Kurtz, Verner Vinge, J Ack Chalker, David Gerrold, Peter Weston, and Vance Aandahl were born this year. |
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Used Future: Clifford Simak's "City": Modern-day equipment has deteriorated due to lack of use, such as cars and roads. People don't use gasoline or anything because they've upgraded to atomic power. Urban homes are now overgrown and used by criminals to hide from the law. |
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One-Word Title: "Arena", by Fredric Brown "City", by Clifford Simak "Deadline", by Cleve Cartmill "Invariant", by John R Pierce "Desertion", by Clifford Simak "Killdozer", by Theodore Sturgeon "Kindness", by Lester del Rey "Sanity", by Fritz Leiber |
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Character Narrator: Leigh Brackett's "The Veil Of Astellar": J(udas) Goat provides most of the narration, disguising his true nature from the audience. |
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Xenofiction: Cleve Cartmill's "Deadline": The people of planet Cathor are engaged in a war while developing nuclear weapons. An Aesop about the dangers of Nuclear Weapons before the construction of an atomic bomb was public knowledge. |
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Combat by Champion: In "Arena", by Fredric Brown, a super-advanced race picks a random individual from humanity and a race they are fighting to the death. The super-intelligence says that in an all-out war one will win, but both will be destroyed, so it will be decided by single combat. |
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