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Alternating Currents (short story collection)

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Originally published
  
1956

Genre
  
Speculative fiction

3.4/5
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Author
  
Frederik Pohl

Similar
  
Frederik Pohl books, Speculative fiction books

Alternating Currents is a collection of science fiction stories by Frederik Pohl first published by Ballantine Books in 1956 (ISBN #B000BH7ANM)

Contents

Contents

  • "Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus" - Alternating Currents '56
  • "The Ghost Maker" - Beyond Fantasy Fiction Jan. '54
  • "Let the Ants Try" - Planet Stories '49
  • "Pythias" - Galaxy Science Fiction Feb. '55
  • "The Mapmakers" - Galaxy Science Fiction July '55
  • "Rafferty’s Reasons" - Fantastic Universe Oct. '55
  • "Target One" - Galaxy Science Fiction April '55
  • "Grandy Devil" - Galaxy Science Fiction June '55
  • "The Tunnel under the World" - Galaxy Science Fiction Jan. '55
  • "What to Do Until the Analyst Comes (Everybody’s Happy But Me!)" - Imagination Feb. '56 as "What to Do Till the Analyst Comes"

    • "The Children of Night" - Galaxy Science Fiction Oct. '64 - replaces "Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus" in UK editions. Penguin Books, (ISBN 0-14-002452-2)

    Reception

    Anthony Boucher found the stories to be "largely slight and hasty in view of Pohl's best work . . . [but] still reveal much wit and imagination."

    References

    Alternating Currents (short story collection) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA