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Tales from the Planet Earth

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Cover artist
  
Manny Paul

Publication date
  
1986

ISBN
  
0-312-78420-1

Author
  
Frederik Pohl

Publisher
  
St. Martin's Press

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Language
  
English

Pages
  
xviii + 268

Originally published
  
1986

Page count
  
268

Country
  
United States of America

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Media type
  
Print (Hardback)(Paperback)

Genres
  
Short story, Science Fiction

Similar
  
Works by Frederik Pohl, Science Fiction books

Tales from the Planet Earth is a 1986 anthology of science fiction stories edited by Frederik Pohl and Elizabeth Anne Hull It presents 18 stories, sharing a common background developed by Pohl and Hull, by 18 authors from 18 different countries; each author's story is set in his native country.

Contents

The collection was dedicated for the memory of A. Bertram Chandler and Janusz A. Zajdel.

Contents

  • Sitting Around the Pool, Soaking Up the Rays · Frederik Pohl, originally in IASFM Aug ’84
  • The Thursday Events · Ye Yonglie
  • User Friendly · Spider Robinson
  • Life as an Ant · André Carneiro
  • Fiddling for Waterbuffaloes · Somtow Sucharitkul, originally in Analog Apr ’86
  • S Is for Snake · Lino Aldani, originally in “S come serpente”, Urania #1021, Apr 27, ’86.
  • The Divided Carla · Josef Nesvadba, originally Rozštěpená Karla, in Literární Měsíčník Jun ’85
  • The View from the Top of the Tower · Harry Harrison, originally in F&SF May ’86
  • Don’t Knock the Rock · A. Bertram Chandler
  • The Owl of Bear Island · Jon Bing
  • Contacts of a Fourth Kind · Ljuben Dilov
  • Infestation · Brian W. Aldiss
  • In the Blink of an Eye · Carlos Maria Federici
  • Particularly Difficult Territory · Janusz A. Zajdel
  • Time Everlasting · Sam J. Lundwall
  • The Middle Kingdom · Tong Enzheng & Elizabeth Anne Hull, adapt.
  • On the Inside Track · Karl-Michael Armer, originally in Entropie, 1986
  • The Legend of the Paper Spaceship · Tetsu Yano; trans. by Gene Van Troyer & Tomoko Oshiro, originally 1978
  • We Servants of the Stars · Frederik Pohl

    • Reception

    Orson Scott Card described the anthology as "a world tour of science fiction" and reported "it will make you more appreciative of the best of America sf -- and more impatient with sameness, the repetitiveness, the insularity that so often afflicts us."

    References

    Tales from the Planet Earth Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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