Modern Classics of Science Fiction
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And as long as good new writers like them – and the as yet faceless ranks behind even the newest of them – keep coming along, science fiction will survive, and even prosper.
MODERN CLASSICS OF SCIENCE FICTION. Copyright © 1991 by Gardner Dozois. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Modern classics of science fiction / edited by Gardner Dozois.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-312-08847-7
1. Science fiction, American. I. Dozois, Gardner R.
PS648.S3M59 1993
813'.0876208—dc20
92-42586
CIP
eISBN 9781466859517
First eBook edition: October 2013
*Kiv: five banks of resilient metal strips, fourteen to the bank, played by touching, twisting, twanging.
*Stimic: three flutelike tubes equipped with plungers. Thumb and forefinger squeeze a bag to force air across the mouthpieces; the second, third and fourth little fingers manipulate the slide. The stimic is an instrument well adapted to the sentiments of cool withdrawal, or even disapproval.
*Krodatch: a small square sound-box strung with resined gut. The musician scratches the strings with his fingernail, or strokes them with his fingertips, to produce a variety of quietly formal sounds. The krodatch is also used as an instrument of insult.
*Skaranyi: a miniature bagpipe, the sac squeezed between thumb and palm, the four fingers controlling the stops along four tubes.
*Gomapard: one of the few electric instruments used on Sirene. An oscillator produces an oboelike tone which is modulated, choked, vibrated, raised, and lowered in pitch by four keys.
*Double-kamanthil: an instrument similar to the ganga, except the tones are produced by twisting and inclining a disk of resined leather against one or more of the forty-six strings.