Time Untamed

by Ivan Howard (Editor), Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon

Tomorrow & tomorrow. Can man really change the future by tampering with the past?
"I'm unborn to you, & therefore unbelievable. You're dead & buried five centuries ago, yet the whole future of the world revolves around we two impossibilities..."
Or can he look thru the window of the past & keep his sanity?
"Cool. The eye of the meteor was cool in my hand. It throbbed because it was alive. Alive & staring at me. It stared hungrily. That was it. The eye was hungry with a terrible blood lust."
I'm Looking for Jeff '52 Fritz Leiber story
Sally '53 Isaac Asimov story
The Dark Room '53 novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
The Eternal Eve '50 novelette by John Wyndham
The Eye of Tandyla/Pusadian '51 novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
The Hungry Eye '59 novelette by Robert Bloch
Tomorrow & Tomorrow '47 Ray Bradbury story
You'll Never Go Home Again=Beachhead '51 Clifford D. Simak story

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction, Anthologies, Short Stories

175 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1967

Reviews

[Adrian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hmm, will think on its rating and the review. Back tomorrow

So its already tomorrow, wow how did that happen :)

So I still haven't worked out what rating to give this book yet, so thought the best way was to mark each story, so.....

Sally - Isaac Asimov, a great story utilising his positronic brain. 5 stars
You'll Never Go Home Again - Clifford Simak, another good story about terraforming 4 stars
The Eye of Tandyla - L Sprague de Camp, an interesting Fantasy mini bite 3.5 stars
Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Ray Bradbury, a gripping time travel short 4 stars
The Hungry Eye - Robert Bloch, hmm, ok 3.5 stars
The Dark Room - Theodore Sturgeon, again ok, emotional parasitic alien 3.5 stars
The Eternal Eve - John Wyndham, now I like John Wyndham and this starts off with his usual wonderful storytelling, but I felt the ending was little weak, so only 3.5 stars
I'm Looking for "Jeff" - Fritz Leiber, an interesting fantasy/horror short about a haunting in a bar 4.5 stars

So there we have it, and its looking like it is 4 stars, which is I suppose about right, just. A few good stories and some ok ones. Worth a read though.

[Lavjot · Rating 4 out of 5]

Obviously great to read sci-fi from the 70s to see what ideas are still relevant but there's genuinely great stories in this collection. The first and last short stories were a bit weak but the rest were all solid. Each were interesting in their insight into thoughts and attitudes in the 60s & 70s - goes to show how social values seep through the work even when it's not the intention.

[faith · Rating 4 out of 5]

Last story- ‘I’m looking for “Jeff”’
**sort of gory but not really.

Overall, I rate the entire book 4.5 stars

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

Classic pulpy sci-fi/horror collection from a seriously eye-popping lineup: Isaac Asimov,Ray Bradbury,Robert Bloch,Clifford Simak,John Wyndham,Theodore Sturgeon,L. Sprague DeCampand Fritz Leiber.

[Emma · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really thought these were going to be time travel stories, but they totally were not - silly me made an assumption.