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The Infinity Box

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Language
  
English

Pages
  
318

Originally published
  
1975

Page count
  
318

Publisher
  
Harper

Publication date
  
1975

OCLC
  
1411741

Author
  
Kate Wilhelm

Genre
  
Science Fiction

Country
  
United States of America

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Cover artist
  
Applebaum & Curtis (design)

Media type
  
Print (Hardback & Paperback)

Similar
  
Kate Wilhelm books, Science Fiction books

The Infinity Box is a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by Kate Wilhelm, published in hardcover by Harper & Row in 1975. It was reprinted in paperback by Pocket Books in 1976; a British edition was published by Arrow Books in 1979, and a French translation, Le Village, appeared in 1987. It placed ninth in the annual Locus Poll for best story collection. Four of the nine stories were nominated for the Nebula Award.

Contents

Contents

  • "Introduction"
  • "The Infinity Box" [N] (Orbit 9 1971)
  • "The Time Piece" (original)
  • "The Red Canary" (Orbit 12 1973)
  • "Man of Letters" (original)
  • "April Fool’s Day Forever" [N] (Orbit 7 1970)
  • "Where Have You Been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?" (Quark/3 1971)
  • "The Fusion Bomb"· (Orbit 10 1972)
  • "The Village" [N] (Bad Moon Rising 1973)
  • "The Funeral" [N] (Again, Dangerous Visions 1972)

    • [N] designates Nebula-nominate stories.

    Reception

    Spider Robinson declared that Wilhelm "is one of the best practitioners of the short story in or out of sf" and rated all but one of the stories as "thoroughly satisfying, some of them superb." The New York Times described the book as a "collection of innovative short stories."

    References

    The Infinity Box Wikipedia
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