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Time and Stars

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Cover artist
  
Thomas Chibbaro

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Originally published
  
1964

Page count
  
249

Language
  
English

Pages
  
249

Author
  
Poul Anderson

Country
  
United States of America

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Genres
  
Science Fiction, Short story

Similar
  
Poul Anderson books, Science Fiction books

Time and Stars ([ISBN unspecified] for original hardcover version) is a collection of science fiction short stories by Poul Anderson, published in 1964.

Contents

"Dangerous universe: Faced with machines that think by and for themselves, super-intelligent space beings bent on a suicidal course and a galaxy teeming with dangerous alien life, man had to invent new weapons, new defenses - or perish from the universe."

Contents

Source

  • "No Truce with Kings": A war story set on a future, semi-primitive Earth with aliens
  • Original Appearance: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1963
  • "The Critique of Impure Reason": A robot will not work because it is infatuated with modern literature and literary criticism
  • Original Appearance: If, November 1962
  • "Escape from Orbit": Astronauts stranded in orbit around the moon
  • Original Appearance: Amazing Stories, October 1962
  • "Eve Times Four": Space traveler Lothario is stranded on a planet with three beautiful women
  • Original Appearance: Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, April 1960
  • "Turning Point": A first contact story that gives a haunting portrait of the price of giftedness and the loss of innocence
  • Original Appearance: If, May 1963
  • "Epilogue": A crew of humans return to Earth after a long absence, finding it has been taken over by a kind of transistor-based ecology of machines; a lack of understanding between the robots and the humans leads to tragedy
  • Original Appearance: Analog, March 1962

    • Literary significance & criticism

    The collection was reviewed by Algis Budrys in the February 1965 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.

    References

    Time and Stars Wikipedia
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