Time and Stars
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Not to be confused with Of Time and Stars.
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 Dust-jacket from the first edition |
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| Author(s) | Poul Anderson |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction short stories |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
| Publication date | 1964 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 249 pp |
| ISBN | NA ASIN B0000CM9GM |
Time and Stars (no ISBN for original hardcover version) is a collection of science fiction short stories by Poul Anderson, published in 1964.
"Dangerous universe: Faced with machines that think by and for themselves, super-intelligent space beings bent on a suicidal course and a galaxy teeming with dangerous alien life, man had to invent new weapons, new defenses - or perish from the universe."[1]
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[edit] 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
- Original Appearance: If, November 1962
- "Escape from Orbit": Astronauts stranded in orbit around the moon
- Original Appearance: Amazing Stories, October 1962
- "Eye 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
[edit] Literary significance & criticism
The collection was reviewed by Algis Budrys in the February 1965 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.
[edit] References
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- Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 1.
[edit] External links
- Time and Stars review at SF Reviews
- Time and Stars at Google Books
