A review by survivalisinsufficient
The World Turned Upside Down by Fritz Leiber, Robert Sheckley, L. Sprague de Camp, Gordon R. Dickson, Chester S. Geier, Isaac Asimov, John W. Campbell Jr., Theodore Sturgeon, C.M. Kornbluth, H. Beam Piper, Jim Baen, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Ernest Gilbert, A.E. van Vogt, Wyman Guin, Ross Rocklynne, Tom Godwin, Michael Sharra, Murray Leinster, Rick Raphael, David Drake, Robert A. Heinlein, P. Schuyler Miller, Jack Vance, Fredric Brown, Eric Flint, Poul Anderson, C.L. Moore, Keith Laumer, Lee Gregor, Christopher Anvil, James H. Schmitz

3.0

I did love some of the stories in this collection (plus I'd never read the Heinlein before and I liked it). I rarely mind misogyny in sci-fi books (seriously! See aforementioned comment re: Heinlein), but the general vibe of this was a bit much for me. Basically, my problem with the book was this: the stories were ones that had some impact on the three editors when they were teenage boys (almost every intro included the line "I first read this when I was 13..."), and I don't have much in common with teenage boys in the 1960s. These stories would have worked much better for me mixed in with other stuff or as whole books where I knew what to expect.