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The last line of Peter Falk to his grandson in The Princess Bride was not “As you like it” but “As you wish.” Poor Peter. He was already forgetting things…

Unfortunately it looks like some text is missing. The quotation at the bottom of p 49 stops mid sentence, then p 50 is a full page photo, and p 51 starts a new paragraph with nothing to do with p 49. Bad editing, Penguin…

Just started this. My wife is annoyed bc I’m already quoting passages at random. “And just one more thing…”

Some stories are good, some are OK, and some are crap. The one by Lupoff is completely unreadable. Pure garbage.

Eminently readable…

“Moth Race” was pretty good. A bit predictable, but well written.

The short story Soundless Evening by Lee Hoffman is by far the shortest, and the most horrifying, of the book so far…

“Sf writers don’t seem to be notably up in arms about the U.S.-stagemanaged bestialities in Vietnam. They don’t seem to get into politics much at all.”

Written in 1972. How much has changed?

This book is simply gigantic…

The short story “The Funeral,” by Kate Wilhelm, seems to anticipate The Handmaiden’s Tale about a decade later…

A faithful retelling of the age-old tale…

I had forgotten how well this was written…

Great story by Ursula Le Guin