A review by leons1701
The World Turned Upside Down by Jack Vance, David Drake, Michael Sharra, C.M. Kornbluth, Murray Leinster, Poul Anderson, Christopher Anvil, Rick Raphael, Keith Laumer, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Ernest Gilbert, Robert Sheckley, Fredric Brown, L. Sprague de Camp, H. Beam Piper, Fritz Leiber, Isaac Asimov, Gordon R. Dickson, Jim Baen, Wyman Guin, P. Schuyler Miller, C.L. Moore, Chester S. Geier, John W. Campbell Jr., A.E. van Vogt, Arthur C. Clarke, Lee Gregor, Tom Godwin, James H. Schmitz, Robert A. Heinlein, Eric Flint, Ross Rocklynne
5.0
For the longest time I thought this was an alternate history collection. Neither the title nor the cover did anything to disabuse me of this notion. Not sure why it took me so long to get around to reading it, given that 1) I love AH and 2) I think the short story is the perfect form for AH
most of the time. Considering it was edited by Baen, Drake, and Flint, I had no concern about the quality. So I have no clue what kept me away from it. But as of last week, I fixed that, picking up the local library copy/
Surprise, surprise, it's not AH, it's something far stronger, a collection of SF shorts that blew the editors away when they were young, stuff that changed their world. It's a great idea and unsurprisingly contains a lot of great tales from the Golden Age of SF. There's a few obvious contenders left out because they've been found in a lot of other anthologies over the year. Though that didn't stop them from including Who Goes There which has been anthologized twenty some times at least and even made into a movie (twice).
Anyhow, this collection reminded me of two things, 1)I love Golden Age shorts and 2) I certainly haven't read enough of them.
most of the time. Considering it was edited by Baen, Drake, and Flint, I had no concern about the quality. So I have no clue what kept me away from it. But as of last week, I fixed that, picking up the local library copy/
Surprise, surprise, it's not AH, it's something far stronger, a collection of SF shorts that blew the editors away when they were young, stuff that changed their world. It's a great idea and unsurprisingly contains a lot of great tales from the Golden Age of SF. There's a few obvious contenders left out because they've been found in a lot of other anthologies over the year. Though that didn't stop them from including Who Goes There which has been anthologized twenty some times at least and even made into a movie (twice).
Anyhow, this collection reminded me of two things, 1)I love Golden Age shorts and 2) I certainly haven't read enough of them.