One of the great formative influences in my youth was the Dangerous Visions anthology edited by Harlan Ellison. Shaw had his own unique way of doing practically everything.) plays for one of the prefaces he ought to have written."įar be it from me to take sides in the famous (one-sided) fight between Shaw and Shakespeare but I confess, I like prefaces and enjoy reading what writers have to say about their writing. "I would give half a dozen of Shakespear's (Shaw had his own unique way of spelling things. In his preface to Three Plays for Puritans, George Bernard Shaw extols the virtues of prefaces and berates Shakespeare for never writing one. To Algis Budrys and Kim Mohan, who both discovered me Some of the stories in this collection have won the Aurora Award and the grand prize in the prestigious Writers of the Future contest and been nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, while others are completely new and undiscovered. There are stories of wonder, imagination, humanity, and the unknown and tales that remind us of the importance of possibility. Now, in his first short-story collection, he brings together the numerous tales that have made his reputation, ranging from the everyday experience to the cosmic, from peanut butter sandwiches to space drives. Award-winning author James Alan Gardner evokes a sense of wonder that is synonymous with great speculative fiction.
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