Stardust

by Chad Oliver

Collins floated through the jet blackness with every sense alert. He heard the low hum of voices welling up out of the emptiness ahead of him and the oxygen in the still air tasted sweet to him as he drank it into his lungs. The cold smell of metal was all around him, hemming him in, and he shivered involuntarily in the darkness.

44 pages, Paperback

First published April 25, 2013

About the author

Symmes Chadwick Oliver (30 March 1928–9 August 1993) was an award winning science fiction and Western writer and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. He was also one of the founders of the Turkey City Writer's Workshop.

Reviews

[Иван Иванов · Rating 5 out of 5]

Страхотна фантастика, тъкмо от онзи вид, който обичам! Може да е малко старомодна, на моменти дори леко наивна, но я изгълтах на един дъх и искам още!
Кораб, движещ се през хиперпространството, засича древен съд, който се носи привидно мъртъв и неуправляем в нормалното пространство. Оказва се, че това е първият междузвезден кораб на човечеството, изчезнал преди 200 години, и на него все още има живи потомци на някогашните космонавти, които със сетни сили се опитват да опазят пламъка на познанието от настъпващия безпросветен мрак на скотското съществувание.
Чад Оливър ми беше познат главно от чудесната книжка "Ветровете на времето", публикувана в библиотека "Галактика". Пробвал съм още няколко от разказите/новелите му, които не са лоши, но тази е най-добрата, на която съм попадал. Препоръчвам с две ръце!

[Joachim Boaz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Full review: https://sciencefictionruminations.com...

3.5/5

"In the 1974 paper “Two Horizons of Man” for the American Anthropological Association, Chad Oliver identified the “larger theoretical and social contexts” in which his two professions (SF and anthropology) were subsumed: “The problems of cultural contact and culture conflict, the discussions of cultural relativism, the idea of cultural evolution, the whole emphasis on looking at things from different perspectives, the questions about what it meant to be [...]"

[Cheryl]

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Not sure if this is even avl as an ebook. Amazon only lists an expensive paperback. "Wilder Publications" seems to be not legitimate: https://www.patricesarath.com/observa.... It was originally published in 1952 in 'Astounding.' It's included in Far from This Earth and The Edge of Forever: Classic Anthropological Science Fiction according to isfdb: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cg....