![]() ![]() This is not a great start for anybody wanting to dig in into sci-fi. Not too exceptional, but the diversity on show made this very enjoyable (at least if you enjoy '50s SF). Damon Knight shows the dark side of an utopia in 'Country of the kind'. 'On missing persons' by Jack Finney was beautiful and sad. Tubb has someone in his last days looking back on his life. I liked the story by Asimov about a new entertainment industry based on dreams (and the toll on the creatives in that industry), Junior by Robert Abernathy was a fun story about an interesting alien society and the divide between generations, 'Bulkhead' by Theodore Sturgeon has an astronaut slowly going crazy by loneliness and contacting the other occupant of his space ship behind the bulkhead. Moore (with Henry Kuttner) with an fun, action packed story about a robot run amock. Zenna Henderson, with one of her beautifully written and elegiac 'People'-stories, Shirley Jackson (with a lighthearted tale with a twist at the end), Mildred Clingerman (with a story of the suburbs) and C.L. Interesting in this collection by a female editor (which shows that women were active in the genre also in the fifties, even as editors!) were several female authors. 7,5 A fairly typical '50s collection, with some more fantasy like tales, a couple of classics and the usual '50's sexism (it's not really diverse). ![]()
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