by Chad Oliver
But this book wouldn’t have made it to the proof readers without the efforts of Tony Lewis (research and advice) or Rick Katze (scanning). George Flynn (Proofmeister) cleaned up the mistakes in remarkably little time, and Mark Olson kept the computers (and the editor) up and running.
And special thanks to George Zebrowski for persuading me to do it, and smoothing the way.
—Priscilla Olson
June 2003
First Appearances
“Stardust”, first printed in Astounding Science Fiction 49:5, July 1952 [reprinted as “First to the Stars”]
“Let Me Live in a House”, first printed in Universe Science Fiction no. 4, March 1951 [reprinted as “A Friend to Man”]
“Field Expedient”, first printed in Astounding Science Fiction 54:5, January 1955
“Transformer”, first printed in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 7:5, November 1954
“If Now You Grieve a Little” first printed in Fantastic 2:3, May-June 1953, as “Hardly Worth Mentioning”
“Anachronism”, first printed in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 4:4, April 1953
“North Wind”, first printed in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 10:3, March 1956
“Pilgrimage”, first printed in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 14:2, February 1958
“The Wind Blows Free”, first printed in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 13:1, July 1957
“Of Course”, first printed in Astounding Science Fiction 53:3, May 1954
“Rite of Passage”, first printed in Astounding Science Fiction 53:2, April 1954
“Didn’t He Ramble?”, first printed in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 12:4, April 1957
“Second Nature”, first printed in Future Quest, edited by Roger Elwood, New York: Avon, 1973
“Ghost Town”, first printed in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 103:10, Mid-September 1983
“The End of the Line”, first printed in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 28:1, January 1965
“Just Like a Man”, first printed in Fantastic Science Fiction - Fantasy 15:6, July 1966
“Far From This Earth”, first printed in The Year 2000, edited by Harry Harrison, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1970
“King of the Hill”, first printed in Again, Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1972
“Meanwhile, Back on the Reservation”, first printed in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 101:5, April 27, 1981
“A Lake of Summer”, first printed in The Bradbury Chronicles, edited by William F. Nolan and Martin H. Greenberg, New York: ROC, 0-451-45134-1, November 1991
Dedication
To
Hal Hall, Bill Nolan,
Howard Waldrop,
and George Zebrowski,
for caring.
Chad Oliver (1928–1993)
Chad Oliver was the working name that US anthropologist and writer Symmes Chadwick Oliver used for his SF titles. He was born in Ohio but spent most of his life in Texas, where he studied for his MA. He later took a PhD in anthropology at the University of California, which lead to his appointment as a professor of anthropology at the University of Texas, Austen. Oliver’s SF work reflected both his professional training and personal roots: much of it is set in the outdoors of the US Southwest and most of his characters are deeply involved in outdoor activities. Oliver was also always concerned with the depiction of Native American life. His first published story, “The Land of Lost Content”, appeared in Super Science Stories in November 1950.
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