Good science fiction anthologies.
23vl
there any good anthologies out there.The stories need not be
thematically similar-I am not searching for a collection of military
science fiction for example.
David Goldfarb
You might see if you can find copies of Patrick Nielsen Hayden's
"Starlight" series. It ran to three volumes.
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Anthony Nance
For older/classic stuff, I highly recommend the Healy & McComas-edited
_Adventures in Time and Space_ and the Dozois-edited _The Good Old Stuff_ .
For newer (released in 1999), I highly recommend the Dozois-edited
_The Good New Stuff_ . SFBC out with an edition called _The Good Stuff_
which combined both Dozois volumes.
Tony
htn963
Good (and safe) ones to start with are Healy's _Adventures in Time and
Space_, the SFWA anthologies of the best novella and short stories of
all time, edited by Silverberg, and the Hugo Winners compilations
edited by Asimov.
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lal_truckee
Repeating other's recommendation _Adventures In Time and Space_ (1946)
edited by Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas is the place to start.
This is the collection with which all others must be compared and
invariably fall short.
Two observations -
There are numerous editions, only some of which have the full contents
of the original 1946 edition. Find one with all the stories (check the
ISFdB.)
Someone calling themself Mary Taylor apparently stole the title for the
Star Trek universe compendium in 1999. That's definitely not the one you
want.
Mike Schilling
Damon Kinight's _A Science Fiction Argosy_ includes not onl;y a few
dozen great stories, but also two brilliant novels. You'll have to
find it used.
Ted Nolan <tednolan>
_Adventures in Time and Space_ is the clasic golden age anthology.
Follow that with the _Science Fiction Hall of Fame_ anthologies,
the Hugo winners' anthologies and then get into the ones that Groff
Conklin edited.
Ted
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Greg Goss
I'm just getting back into reading after a long internet-driven
hiatus. In the old days, I was a fan of the magazines, especially
Analog. Have you tried a few mags?
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Mike Schilling
Oh, and Boucher's _Treasury of Great Science Fiction_ too. Between
them you get both classic Bester novels.
Michael Stemper
>Can somebody recommend a few.Right now I want some variety,so are
>there any good anthologies out there.
It's hard to go wrong with Anthony Boucher's _A Treasury of Great
Science Fiction_, which can usually be found second-hand, due to
the number of copies that the SFBC shipped. It's described in the
following articles:
<a940ht$gle$1...@daymark.empros.com> (introduction)
<a940lq$ghi$1...@daymark.empros.com> (Volume 1)
<a940ph$ghm$1...@daymark.empros.com> (Volume 2)
Another classic anthology is _Tomorrow's Children, edited by Isaac
Asimov. For capsules of its contents:
<a7a42p$g3o$1...@daymark.empros.com>
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>
> It's hard to go wrong with Anthony Boucher's _A Treasury of Great
> Science Fiction_,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWKdokcvM7A
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If you like space opera, The New Space Opera edited by Dozois and
Strahan is pretty good.
Brian
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Mike Schilling
> In article <7ThPl.19061$8_3...@flpi147.ffdc.sbc.com>, "Mike
> Schilling" <mscotts...@hotmail.com> writes:
>> Michael Stemper wrote:
>
>>> It's hard to go wrong with Anthony Boucher's _A Treasury of Great
>>> Science Fiction_,
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWKdokcvM7A
>
> Unfortunately, my employer blocks access to youtube, so I'll miss
> what I'm certain would have been an incredibly witty and sublte
> reference.
I wouldn't go that far. Anyway, it's the Monty Python sketch about
Deja Vu.
Evelyn Leeper
> In article <e96def56-eb40-41fe...@r34g2000vba.googlegroups.com>,
> 23vl <238...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Can somebody recommend a few.Right now I want some variety,so are
>> there any good anthologies out there.The stories need not be
>> thematically similar-I am not searching for a collection of military
>> science fiction for example.
>
> _Adventures in Time and Space_ is the clasic golden age anthology.
>
> Follow that with the _Science Fiction Hall of Fame_ anthologies,
> the Hugo winners' anthologies and then get into the ones that Groff
> Conklin edited.
What he said. Exactly.
After that, the Asimov "Great SF Stories: [year]" and Wollheim "World's
Best SF: [year]" are good, though you'll probably start seeing a lot of
overlap with the others. Horace Gold had a big "Galaxy" anthology,
and there are also the Judith Merril anthologies.
David Hartwell has done some good anthologies recently.
If you're looking for older, more mainstream material, Philip van Doren
Stern had a few anthologies.
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There are the yearly "Year's Best Science Fiction" collections edited by
Gardner Dozois.
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Daryld Watson
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Greenberg? It just came back in print,
Daryld
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> "23vl" <2389...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:e96def56-eb40-41fe...@r34g2000vba.googlegroups.com...> Can somebody recommend a few.Right now I want some variety,so are
> > thematically similar-I am not searching for a collection of military
>
> Has anyone read Beyond Armageddon edited by Walter Miller Jr. and Marton
> Greenberg? It just came back in print,
> Daryld
Yeah. It is good, but John Joseph Adams' Wastelands is much better
http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2008/05/beyond-armageddon-martin-h-greenberg.html
Here's a bit list I did a while back, that needs some updating for
very recent stuff :-
Major Science Fiction Anthologies : A Brief History:-
http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2008/02/major-science-fiction-anthologies-brief.html
Michael Grosberg
A very good anthology I recently read was _Masterpieces: The Best
Science Fiction of the Century_, edited by Orson Scott Card. It
includes both classic and more recent works, such as _"Repent,
Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman_, _The Tunnel Under the World_,
_Sandkings_ , _Bears Discover Fire_, and _The Road Not Taken_.
Bill Patterson
wrote:
There are two anthology series I got a lot of bang out of -- well,
some time ago. They will take you through fifties and early 60's sf,
which was a pretty good period: Judith Merril's Year's Best SF goes
from about 1955 I think to about 1966 and the Amis and Conquest
Spectrum series. Those plus the F&SF Annual series and the Galaxy
series as they came out made a good overview of the genre, plus some
darned good reading. Haven't read many contemporary anthologies: I
got Elwooded out in the 1970's.
Joyce Haslam
> Can somebody recommend a few. Right now I want some variety,so
> are there any good anthologies out there.The stories need not be
> thematically similar-I am not searching for a collection of
> military science fiction for example.
I have Robert Silverbergs's _Far Horizons_. The blurb says
"eleven masters of science fiction return to their legendary
worlds". Writers fill in gaps in their stories (universes?)
or add codas. It sent me looking for the originals.
Oops "Orbit Science Fiction; not for sale in the USA and Canada"
Joyce.
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Anthony Nance
> 23vl wrote:
>> Can somebody recommend a few. Right now I want some variety,so
>> are there any good anthologies out there.The stories need not be
>> thematically similar-I am not searching for a collection of
>> military science fiction for example.
>
> I have Robert Silverbergs's _Far Horizons_. The blurb says
> "eleven masters of science fiction return to their legendary
> worlds". Writers fill in gaps in their stories (universes?)
> or add codas. It sent me looking for the originals.
>
> Oops "Orbit Science Fiction; not for sale in the USA and Canada"
I think that's because someone else had the publishing rights in
the USA and Canada. ( _Far Horizons_ was available in the USA,
for example, though I don't know the publisher.)
Tony
Ted Nolan <tednolan>
Joyce Haslam <pen...@ukgateway.invalid> wrote:
>
>
>23vl wrote:
>> Can somebody recommend a few. Right now I want some variety,so
>> are there any good anthologies out there.The stories need not be
>> thematically similar-I am not searching for a collection of
>> military science fiction for example.
>
>I have Robert Silverbergs's _Far Horizons_. The blurb says
>"eleven masters of science fiction return to their legendary
>worlds". Writers fill in gaps in their stories (universes?)
>or add codas. It sent me looking for the originals.
>
>Oops "Orbit Science Fiction; not for sale in the USA and Canada"
>
>Joyce.
Damon Knight's "Orbit" anthologies? They certainly *were* for sale in the US
at one time. If the rights have lapsed, I have no doubt you could find
used copies on Amazon.
They're pretty new-waveish, but there were some R. A. Lafferty gems, and
"Mother to the World".
Andrew Plotkin
> In article <505dd813...@ukgateway.invalid>,
> Joyce Haslam <pen...@ukgateway.invalid> wrote:
> >
> >
> >23vl wrote:
> >> Can somebody recommend a few. Right now I want some variety,so
> >> are there any good anthologies out there.The stories need not be
> >> thematically similar-I am not searching for a collection of
> >> military science fiction for example.
> >
> >I have Robert Silverbergs's _Far Horizons_. The blurb says
> >"eleven masters of science fiction return to their legendary
> >worlds". Writers fill in gaps in their stories (universes?)
> >or add codas. It sent me looking for the originals.
> >
> >Oops "Orbit Science Fiction; not for sale in the USA and Canada"
>
> at one time.
No, that looks like Orbit the SF publisher. They were UK-only for a
long time, but I started seeing them in US bookstores a couple of
years ago.
If you want to buy a copy of _Far Horizons_ in the US, I'm sure the
Internet will provide.
--Z
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Yes (though I don't know the publisher either.) It's the SF cognate of his
Legends fantasy anthologies.
William December Starr
Joyce Haslam <pen...@ukgateway.invalid> said:
> I have Robert Silverbergs's _Far Horizons_. The blurb says "eleven
> masters of science fiction return to their legendary
> worlds". Writers fill in gaps in their stories (universes?) or
> add codas. It sent me looking for the originals.
>
> Oops "Orbit Science Fiction; not for sale in the USA and Canada"
Maybe that was relevant when the book was published in 1999.
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Mike Schilling
> In article <505dd813...@ukgateway.invalid>,
> Joyce Haslam <pen...@ukgateway.invalid> said:
>
>> I have Robert Silverbergs's _Far Horizons_. The blurb says "eleven
>> masters of science fiction return to their legendary
>> worlds". Writers fill in gaps in their stories (universes?) or
>> add codas. It sent me looking for the originals.
>>
>> Oops "Orbit Science Fiction; not for sale in the USA and Canada"
>
> Maybe that was relevant when the book was published in 1999.
If that editon is still in print, it probably still isn't for sale in
the US. That's all that verbiage ever meant.