Time and Stars
1964 collection of short stories by Poul Anderson
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Author | Poul Anderson |
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Cover artist | Thomas Chibbaro[1] |
Language | English |
Genre | Science fiction |
Published | 1964 |
Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | 249 |
ASIN B0000CM9GM |
Time and Stars is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Poul Anderson, published in 1964.
Contents
Source[2]
- "No Truce with Kings": A war story set on a future, semi-primitive Earth with aliens
- Original Appearance: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1963
- "The Critique of Impure Reason": A robot will not work because it is infatuated with modern literature and literary criticism. (Not to be confused with the Critique of Impure Reason, a book in philosophy by Steven James Bartlett.)
- Original Appearance: If, November 1962
- "Escape from Orbit": Astronauts stranded in orbit around the Moon
- Original Appearance: Amazing Stories, October 1962
- "Eve Times Four": Space traveler Lothario is stranded on a planet with three beautiful women
- Original Appearance: Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, April 1960
- "Turning Point": A first contact story that gives a haunting portrait of the price of giftedness and the loss of innocence
- Original Appearance: If, May 1963
- "Epilogue": A crew of humans return to Earth after a long absence, finding it has been taken over by a kind of transistor-based ecology of machines; a lack of understanding between the robots and the humans leads to tragedy
- Original Appearance: Analog, March 1962
Reception
Algis Budrys in the February 1965 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction said that "what Anderson needed in Time and Stars was an editor". He disliked "Eve Times Four" and "No Truce With Kings" but liked the others, calling "Escape From Orbit" "a beautifully done piece of work like nothing I have seen in the field before".[3] In February 1966 Budrys named the book the best collection of his first year as reviewer for the magazine, and "Escape from Orbit" the best short story.[4]
References
- Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 1.
External links
- Time and Stars title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Time and Stars at Open Library
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Works by Poul Anderson
- Earthman's Burden
- Star Prince Charlie
- Hoka!
- Star Ways
- The Snows of Ganymede
- Virgin Planet
- The Psychotechnic League
- Cold Victory
- Starship
Polesotechnic League period of Nicholas van Rijn |
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Terran Empire period of Dominic Flandry |
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- Orbit Unlimited
- New America
- Maurai and Kith
- Orion Shall Rise
- Flight to Forever
- Vault of the Ages
- Brain Wave
- Question and Answer
- No World of Their Own
- The Long Way Home
- Perish by the Sword
- War of Two Worlds
- The Enemy Stars
- The High Crusade
- Murder in Black Letter
- Twilight World
- After Doomsday
- The Makeshift Rocket
- Murder Bound
- Shield
- Three Worlds to Conquer
- The Corridors of Time
- The Star Fox
- The Fox, the Dog and the Griffin: A Folk Tale Adapted from the Danish of C. Molbeck
- World Without Stars
- Tau Zero
- The Byworlder
- The Dancer from Atlantis
- There Will Be Time
- Fire Time
- Inheritors of Earth
- The Winter of the World
- The Avatar
- The Demnon of Scattery
- The Devil's Game
- The Boat of a Million Years
- The Saturn Game
- The Longest Voyage
- War of the Gods
- Starfarers
- Genesis
- Mother of Kings
- For Love and Glory
- Strangers from Earth
- Un-Man and Other Novellas
- Time and Stars
- The Horn of Time
- Beyond the Beyond
- Seven Conquest
- Tales of the Flying Mountains
- The Queen of Air and Darkness and Other Stories
- The Worlds of Poul Anderson
- The Many Worlds of Poul Anderson
- Homeward and Beyond
- The Best of Poul Anderson
- Homebrew
- Winners
- The Night Face & Other Stories
- The Dark Between the Stars
- Explorations
- Fantasy
- Winners
- Cold Victory
- The Gods Laughed
- Starship
- The Winter of the World / The Queen of Air and Darkness
- Conflict
- The Long Night
- Past Times
- The Unicorn Trade
- Dialogue With Darkness
- Space Folk
- Alight in the Void
- The Armies of Elfland
- Inconstant Star
- Kinship With the Stars
- All One Universe
- Going for Infinity
- Swordsmen from the Stars
- Operation Chaos
- Operation Luna
- Three Hearts and Three Lions
- The Broken Sword
- Hrolf Kraki's Saga
- A Midsummer Tempest
- The Merman's Children
- Conan the Rebel
- War of the Gods
- The Golden Slave
- Rogue Sword
- Mother of Kings
- "Brake"
- "Call Me Joe"
- "Delenda Est"
- "Entity"
- "Eutopia"
- "Goat Song"
- "The Light"
- "The Longest Voyage"
- "The Man Who Came Early"
- "Marius"
- "Memory"
- "Night Piece"
- "No Truce with Kings"
- "The Pirate"
- "The Queen of Air and Darkness"
- "Quest"
- "Sam Hall"
- "The Saturn Game"
- "The Sensitive Man"
- "The Sharing of Flesh"
- "Un-Man"