Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Isaac Asimov, Greenberg, Waugh, eds. Starships (1983)
Isaac Asimov, Greenberg, Waugh, eds. Starships (1983) The editors have chosen a variety of stories, grouped in the table of contents under headings such as The Complement (ie, the crew, etc). The stories are uniformly very good, well written, focussing as much on character as on technology, yet providing that staple of good SF, the technical, or sociological puzzle, or that staple of fantasy, the what if the future were not that much different from the present? ** to *** (2005)
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Anthology,
Book review,
Science Fiction,
Short Stories
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