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ABOUT
THE AUTHORS
BRIAN W. ALDISS was born in East Dereham, Norfolk, in 1925. He is the author of two non-SF novels that were best sellers in England—The Hand-Reared Boy and A Soldier Erect—as well as a number of SF novels, among them Starship, The Long Afternoon of Earth, Cryptozoic!, Frankenstein Unbound, and Barefoot in the Head. He won the Hugo Award for his “Hothouse” series (later incorporated into The Long Afternoon of Earth), and the Nebula Award for his novella, “The Saliva Tree.” He was formerly literary editor of the Oxford Mail and is the author of a critical history of science fiction, Billion Year Spree. He presently lives in Oxford with his wife, Margaret, and their children.
DAMON KNIGHT was born in Baker, Oregon, in 1922. He is the author of many SF novels and short story collections, among them Hell
’s Pavement, Beyond the Barrier, Mind Switch, Three Novels, A for Anything, The Best of Damon Knight, and In Deep. His anthologies include A Century of Science Fiction, The Dark Side, Dimension X, Cities of Wonder, First Flight, and the Orbit series. He won the Hugo Award for In Search of Wonder, a book of critical essays. He also founded the Science Fiction Writers of America and became its first president. He lives in Eugene, Oregon, with his wife, writer Kate Wilhelm.
R. A. LAFFERTY is a retired electrical engineer who resides in Oklahoma, where he has spent most of his life, except for a number of years in Australia, the Dutch East Indies, and New Guinea as a staff sergeant during World War II. His novels include Past Master, The Reefs of Earth, Fourth Mansions, The Devil is Dead, Arrive at Easterwine, and Okla Hannali. He has three short story collections: Nine Hundred Grandmothers, Strange Doings, and Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add? He won the Hugo Award for his short story “Eurema’s Dam.”
URSULA K. LE GUIN received her B.A. from Radcliffe College and her M.A. in French and Italian Renaissance Literature from Columbia University. Her novels include The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, Planets of Exile, The Lathe of Heaven, City of Illusions, The Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, and The Farthest Shore. She has two short story collections, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters and Orsinian Tales. The Left Hand of Darkness won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards, as did The Dispossessed. She also won the Hugo Award for her novella, “The Word for World Is Forest,” and for her short story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” and the Nebula Award for her short story, “The Day After the Revolution.” The Farthest Shore received the National Book Award for Children’s Literature. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, historian Charles A. Le Guin.
FRITZ LEIBER was born in Chicago in 1910 and is a graduate of the University of Chicago (Philosophy, Phi Beta Kappa). He has worked as an actor both in films and on the stage, toured with a Shakespeare Company, and for a number of years was editor of Science Digest. His books include The Big Time; The Wanderer; Conjure Wife; The Green Millennium; A Spectre Is Haunting Texas; Gather, Darkness; Night of the Wolf; and The Best of Fritz Leiber. He won the Hugo Award for his novels, The Big Time and The Wanderer, for his novella, Ship of Shadows, and for his novelette, Gonna Roll the Bones. He won the Nebula Award for Gonna Roll the Bones, for his novelette, Ill Met in Lankhmar, and for his short story, “Catch That Zeppelin!” He lives in San Francisco, California.
KEITH ROBERTS was born in Kettering, Northamptonshire. Artist as well as author, he has worked in the British film industry as a cartoon animator and as an illustrator and cover artist for a number of SF magazines. He was associate editor of the British SF magazine Science Fantasy for a number of years and editor of Impulse in 1966. His books include Pavane, The Chalk Giants, The Furies, The Inner Wheel, and a historical novel, The Boat of Fate. He lives in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
JOANNA RUSS was born in The Bronx, New York, in 1937. She attended Cornell University, where she received a B.A. in English Literature, and Yale University, where she studied playwriting and received her M.A. Her books include Picnic on Paradise, And Chaos Died, and The Female Man. She won the Nebula Award for her short story, “When It Changed.” She lives in Boulder, Colorado, where she teaches at the University of Colorado.
ROBERT SILVERBERG was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1935, and is a graduate of Columbia University. One of the most prolific authors alive, he is the author of more than 450 fiction and nonfiction books and 3,000 magazine pieces. His novels and short story collections include Dying Inside, The Book of Skulls, Downward to the Earth, Tower of Glass, The World Inside, The Stochastic Man, Shadrach in the Furnace, Born with the Dead, Unfamiliar Territory, and The Best of Robert Silverberg. His anthologies include Dark Stars, The Mirror of Infinity, The Science Fiction Bestiary, Worlds of Maybe, Beyond Control, the New Dimensions series, and the Alpha series. He won the Nebula Award for his novel, A Time of Changes, and for his short stories, “Good News from the Vatican” and “Passengers.” He won the Hugo Award for his novella, Nightwings, and another Hugo in 1956 as Most Promising New Writer of the Year. He lives in Oakland, California, with his wife, Barbara.
CORDWAINER SMITH was the pseudonym of the late Dr. Paul M. A. Linebarger, Professor of Asiatic Politics at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1913, Linebarger entered George Washington University in Washington at the age of fourteen, later attended Oxford University and North China University in Peking, and received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University when he was twenty-two. A civilian advisor to the military in three wars, he was the author of Psychological Warfare, which remains a classic text on that subject, and a number of books on Far Eastern and Southeast Asian politics. His SF books include Nostrilla, Space Lords, Quest of the Three Worlds, You Will Never Be the Same, Stardreamer, and The Best of Cordwainer Smith. He died in 1966.
JAMES TIPTREE, JR., is the author of numerous science fiction stories that have appeared in most of the leading magazines and anthologies. He won the Nebula Award for his short story, “Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death,” and the Hugo Award for his novella, The Girl Who Was Plugged In. He has two short story collections, Ten Thousand Light Years from Home and Warm Worlds and Otherwise. He is currently working on a novel, tentatively entitled Up the Walls of the World. Nothing definite is known about his private life, but he operates out of a post office box address in McLean, Virginia.
GENE WOLFE was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1931. His stories have appeared in most of the leading SF magazines and anthologies, and his books include The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Peace, and The Devil in a Forest. He won the Nebula Award for his novella, The Death of Doctor Island. He lives in Barrington, Illinois, with his wife, Rosemary, and their children. He edits the trade publication, Plant Engineering.
ABOUT
THE EDITOR
GARDNER DOZOIS was born and raised in Salem, Massachusetts. He sold his first science fiction story in 1966 and entered the Army almost immediately thereafter, spending the next three years overseas as a military journalist. He has been a full-time writer since his discharge from the service in 1969. His short fiction has appeared in Orbit, New Dimensions, Analog, Quark, Generation, Amazing, Worlds of If, Chains of the Sea, and other magazines and anthologies. He has been a Nebula Award finalist five times, a Hugo Award finalist four times, and a Jupiter Award finalist twice. He is the editor of a number of anthologies, among them A Day in the Life, Future Power (with Jack Dann), and Beyond the Golden Age. He is also the editor of Dutton’s Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year series, and associate editor of Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. He is coauthor, with George Alec Effinger, of the novel Nightmare Blue, and is currently at work on another novel. A collection of his short fiction, The Visible
Table of Contents
Introduction
THE OLDEST SOLDIER
AFTER THE MYTHS WENT HOME
THE STARS BELOW
STRAW
ON THE GEM PLANET
BEAM US HOME
THE BARBARIAN
AMONG THE HAIRY EARTHMEN
MAN IN THE JAR
OLD HUNDREDTH
THE SIGNALLER
READER’S GUIDE TO SF
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
ABOUT THE EDITOR
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