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First published in 1986 by editors Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg. This Genre Anthology contains seventeen Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1953, 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. |
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Secret Test: Theodore R Cogswell's "The Wall Around The World": The people inside The Wall are learning how to cast magic, honing their minds for generations. However, there's occasionally someone who is willing to ignore magic and builds a machine instead to help them over the wall. If they do that, the Black Man takes them away to learn about the Outside, with the high-tech machines humans have made. |
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Hyperspace Is a Scary Place |
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Hyperspace Is a Scary Place: James Blish's "Common Time": A person travelling in "over-drive" first experiences his mind (and therefore his perception of time) operating thousands of times faster than his body, and later experiences his body operating vastly faster than his mind - both potentially fatal conditions. (Several earlier expeditions failed to return). It then gets weirder, and the whole thing is possibly kinky. |
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Tomato in the Mirror |
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Tomato in the Mirror: Philip K. Dick's "Impostor": There's a war between Earth and aliens from Alpha Centauri. One man is accused of being a robot, planted by the enemy, with a bomb inside, set to explode when a trigger is activated. The man escapes and tries to find the robot, to attempt to prove he is actually human. He isn't. And the bomb inside him explodes right after discovering the truth, laying waste to good part of the Earth. |
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Sword of Damocles: In "Imposter", by Philip K. Dick, the mythological sword is mentioned by name when describing the Outspacer's ability to attack. Earth has developed protec-bubbles that can endure any attacks, but unless they develop a way to harm the Outspacer ships, Earth will eventually lose. |
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The Wall Around the World |
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The Wall Around the World: Theodore R Cogswell's "The Wall Around The World": This Novelette is the Trope Namer. The wall separates a smaller magic-dominated world from the larger science-dominated one. |
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Why Am I Ticking? |
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Why Am I Ticking?: Philip K. Dick's "Imposter": An awesome Short Story featuring a man trying to prove that he is not a Ridiculously Human Robots with a hidden bomb. At the end, he realizes that he IS a robot, and it's the realization that causes him to explode. |
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Vichy Earth: William Tenn's "The Liberation Of Earth": The narrator describes how an alien race "liberated" Earth, and took over as a central government. Then another alien race liberates Earth from the first aliens, and become the new overlords. Then the first alien race re-liberates Earth, and so on. In the end the whole thing was just a minor skirmish in an on-going galactic war, the aliens take their battle elsewhere and Earth has been reduced to a lop-sided irradiated wasteland. |
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You Wake Up in a Room |
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You Wake Up in a Room: Fredric Brown's "Hall Of Mirrors": A 25-year-old man suddenly finds himself fifty years in the future, in a locked room, with a letter addressed to him on the desk. Reading it, he learns that he is actually 75 years old, but has just de-aged himself, which erased his memory of the last fifty years. The letter is from his older self, and it includes the horrifying explanation of why he has done this. And may have to do it again, fifty years from now. |
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From Bad to Worse |
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From Bad to Worse: William Tenn's "The Liberation Of Earth": Two warring groups of aliens keep trading control of the eponymous planet back and forth, causing more and more damage in the process. When the two species' battle finally shifts to another solar system, they leave behind a handful of ragged human survivors scrabbling on a pear-shaped, atmosphere-depleted, burnt-out husk. |
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Mocking Sing-Song: Theodore R Cogswell's "The Wall Around The World": Porgie mocks his cousin and his friends while flying around in his gliding machine by calling out an annoying sound; "Nyah, nyah, nyah". |
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Gay Aesop: Theodore Sturgeon's "The World Well Lost": This controversial 1953 short story is about a pair of fugitive alien lovers ("loverbirds") from the planet Dirbanu. The main characters later learn that both of the aliens are male, and that this was the exact reason for their exile. In a second, more poignant twist, it's heavily implied, if not outright stated, that the narrator has similar feelings for his partner. |
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Apocalypse How |
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Apocalypse How: In "The Nine Billion Names Of God", the lamas believe that when they have finished recording all of the names of God, their purpose will be done. The computer engineer figures they mean the end of the earth, but they really mean the end of everything. |
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Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism |
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Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism: Theodore Sturgeon's "The World Well Lost": This story centers on a pair of fugitive "loverbirds" from the planet Dirbanu, which has shunned contact with Earth. The loverbirds are initially assumed to be a male and female, but they manage to explain, via some illustrations, that male and female Dirbanu are vastly different in appearance. In fact, the main reason why the Dirbanu dislike humans is due to homophobia, because they perceive all human relationships as being homosexual. |
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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 seventeen best stories of the year along with a paragraph from Isaac Asimov's perspective. |
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Secret Weapon: In "Imposter", by Philip K. Dick, main character Spence Olham is a scientist working on a secret project that will be able to harm the Outspacer ships. Until a robot imposter kills him and takes his place, so that it can blow up his project. |
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War from Another World |
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War from Another World: In "The Liberation Of Earth", Earth is caught up in an galactic war between two advanced alien species, and nearly destroyed in the process. |
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Shout-Out: In the introduction, multiple works are mentioned as being first published or becoming hits in 1953: Abbot And Costello Go To Mars The Adventures Of Augie March Battle Cry, by Leon Uris The Beast From 20000 Fathoms Beyond Fantasy Fiction launched as a sister publication of Galaxy. Bring the Jubilee, by Ward Moore Melvin Kaminsky is singled out for having changed his name to Mel Brooks. Casino Royale, by Ian Fleming Cat Women of the Moon Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke Children Of The Atom, by Wilmar H Shiras The Crucible, by Arthur Miller The Demolished Man, by Alfred Bester Donovans Brain "Ebb Tide" "Eiffel Tower", painted by Marc Chagall Famous Fantastic Mysteries collapsed this year. Fantastic Universe Science Fiction was launched under the editing leadership of Leo Margulies and Sam Merwin. Four Sided Triangle From Here to Eternity "How Much Is That Doggie In The Window" The Hugo Award started distributing prizes this year, including #1 Fan Personality. "I Believe" "I Love Paris" Invaders From Mars It Came from Outer Space Julius Caesar "King And Queen", sculpted by Henry Moore Kismet was a Broadway musical hit in 1953. The Living Desert The Maze Mesa Of Lost Women More Than Human, by Theodore Sturgeon The New World Of The Man, by JB Rhine Orbit Science Fiction Ring Around The Sun, by Clifford Simak The Robe Rocket Stories was launched and folded in the same year. Roman Holiday The Second Sex Science Fiction Magazine split from Future Combined With Science Fiction Stories Science Fiction Plue stopped publications this year. Space Stories died this year, with only five issues. "Stranger In Paradise" The Sword Of Rihannon, by Leigh Brackett The Twonky The War of the Worlds Wonderful Town, by Leonard Bernstein |
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Speculative Fiction LGBT: Theodore Sturgeon's "The World Well Lost": Alien refugees from Dirbanu who gain brief popularity and sympathy on Earth, but who are then promptly deported when Dirbanu identifies them as fugitive criminals. The copilot of the ship deporting them learns that the refugees are a same-sex couple, which is illegal on their home world; helps them escape extradition; realizes that the Dirbanu's distaste for humans comes from Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism that makes all human couples look same-sex to them; and is revealed to the reader as a deeply closeted Straight Gay man himself. |
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The Shangri-La |
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The Shangri-La: In "The Nine Billion Names Of God", the Tibetan lamasery is accessible by air, and in a subversion of typical expectations, has been embracing the way technology can be used to assist in their worship. They've even hired a couple of computer engineers to program a printer to output every name of God. |
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Ridiculously Human Robots |
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Ridiculously Human Robots: In "Imposter", by Philip K. Dick, the Outspacers have designed robots that look so human, they can be programmed to kill the human they were based on and then forget they were ever a robot. The main character, Spence Olham, must prove he is human or his old friends will kill him. |
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20 Minutes into the Future |
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20 Minutes into the Future: In Philip K. Dick's "Imposter", there are protec-bubbles to defend against attacks, Outspacers (who might be aliens or enemy humans), newsmachines, and Ridiculously Human Robots. |
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