Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 11th Series

by Robert P. Mills (Editor)

This anthology The Sources of the Nile by Avram Davidson; Somebody to Play With by Jay Williams; Softly While You're Sleeping by Evelyn E. Smith; The Machine That Won the War by Isaac Asimov; Go For Baroque by Jody Scott; Time Lag by Poul Anderson; George by John Anthony West; Shotgun Cure by Clifford D. Simak; The One Who Returns by John Berry; The Captivity by Charles G. Finney; Alpha Ralpha Boulevard by Cordwainer Smith; Efficty; E=MC2 by Rosser Reeves; Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.; and The Haunted Village by Gordon R. Dickson.

Genres: Science Fiction, Short Stories, Fantasy, Anthologies

258 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1962

Reviews

[Tbfrank · Rating 2 out of 5]

This anthology contains 13 short stories and two poems from 1960-61. The most notable entries in this collection is Cordwainer Smith's "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard," "Softly While You're Sleeping" by Evelyn E. Smith, "Shotgun Cure" by Clifford Simak, and "The Machine that Won The War" by Isaac Asimov, probably in that order.

[Leslie Holm · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stories from the best authors during the golden age of Science Fiction - Anderson, Asimov, Vonnegut, Simak . . . You can't go wrong here.

[Lawrence · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

These are a selection of stories that have seen print in the long running Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction still running today. This collection was published in the early sixties. The content of the stories is quite broad ranging from traditional sci-fi to weird horror. Highlights for me were Avram Davidson's The Source of the Nile, eco-satire Somebody to Play With by Jay Williams proving that sci-fi was burning the ecological warning beacons half a century ago and The Machine That Won the War by Isaac Asimov - simple but genius.

[boocia]

a very good amount of spec fic that belnded fantasy and science fiction, as opposed to individually, SF short stories and fantasy short stories. Robert P. Mills definitely seemed to lean into the horror-surreal in building this collection.