Science Fiction of the Forties
Stepson of Space - short story by Raymond Z. Gallun Reason - short story by Isaac Asimov Magic City - novelette by Nelson S. Bond Kazam Collects - short story by C. M. Kornbluth My Name Is Legion - novelette by Lester del Rey The Wabbler - short story by Murray Leinster The Halfling - novelette by Leigh Brackett Doorway Into Time - short story by C. L. Moore Deadline - novelette by Cleve Cartmill City - novelette by Clifford D. Simak Pi in the Sky - novelette by Fredric Brown The Million-Year Picnic - short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Million Year Picnic 1946) Technical Error - short story by Arthur C. Clarke Memorial - short story by Theodore Sturgeon Letter to Ellen - short story by Chan Davis "It's Great to Be Back!" - short story by Robert A. Heinlein Tiger Ride - short story by James Blish and Damon Knight Don't Look Now - short story by Henry Kuttner That Only a Mother - short story by Judith Merril Venus and the Seven Sexes - novella by William Tenn "Dear Pen Pal" - short story by A. E. van Vogt (variant of Dear Pen Pal 1949)
Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction, Nonfiction, Science Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.
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Fiction · Nonfiction · Science Fiction
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Balanced tone · Steady pace
A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.
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- ISBN-13
- 978-0-3804-0097-3
- Language
- English
- Edition record
- OL4743739M
A more thoughtful way into this book
This guide uses the edition details and category signals above to help you choose deliberately. It does not replace the author's work or a full review.
A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.
Begin with its place in Fiction, then notice where the book resists that label.
Read for connection, not completion.
Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.
Three questions to carry with you
- What does the central character want, and what do they misunderstand about that desire?
- Which detail or relationship changes how you interpret the story?
- What feeling or question does the book leave with you after the plot moves on?
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