A wonderful collection of short stories and novella from around the world. For each story, the editor gives us a well written introduction on the author and also his comparisons to other authors. Some of the stories go back to the 30's and 40's where science fiction began to take off, then on into the 50's and 60's where it really established itself; a few are taken out of the 70's and 80's.
We think of science fiction as flying around in outer-space searching for other life forms. We do have countless books written on this theme; science fiction is much more complicated than that, it is not always what we think it to be, or where we think we might find it. And these 49 short stories in a thick book represent a diverse combination. The ones that stood out for me are from:
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. J. G. Ballard Theodore Stergeon Rene Rebetez-Cortes Gene Wolfe Alfred Bester C. M. Kornbluth Larry Niven Frederik Pohl Boris Vian Walter M. Miller, Jr. Tor Age Bringsvaerd Philip K. Dick Stanislaw Lem Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore