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The Human Angle

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Language
  
English

Pages
  
152 pp

Author
  
William Tenn

Cover artist
  
Richard M. Powers

Publication date
  
1956

Originally published
  
1956

Publisher
  
Ballantine Books

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Media type
  
Print (hardcover, paperback)

Genres
  
Science Fiction, Speculative fiction

Similar
  
William Tenn books, Science Fiction books

The Human Angle is the second collection of science fiction stories by American writer William Tenn, published simultaneously in hardcover and paperback by Ballantine Books in 1956. Ballantine reprinted the collection in 1964 and 1968.

Contents

Contents

The Human Angle contains the following stories.

  • "Project Hush" (Galaxy 1954)
  • "The Discovery of Morniel Mathaway" (Galaxy 1955)
  • "Wednesday’s Child" (Fantastic Universe 1956)
  • "The Servant Problem" (Galaxy 1955)
  • "Party of the Two Parts" (Galaxy 1954)
  • "The Flat-Eyed Monster" (Galaxy 1955)
  • "The Human Angle" (Famous Fantastic Mysteries 1948)
  • "A Man of Family" (original)
  • Reception

    New York Times reviewer Villiers Gerson praised the stories as "Mordant and suave, cruel and clever, saturnine and sentimental," noting that "if [Tenn] has a fault, it is that his writing is sometimes too clever, exhibiting too many fireworks."

    References

    The Human Angle Wikipedia