2 Anthologies by Roger Elwood (Editor)
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Overview: Roger Elwood was an American science fiction writer and editor, perhaps best known for having edited a large number of anthologies and collections for a variety of publishers in the early 1970s. Elwood was also the founding editor of Laser Books and, in more recent years, worked in the evangelical Christian market.
Genre: Science Fiction | Anthologies
And Walk Now Gently Through the Fire & Other Science Fiction Stories
Man will forever seek his destiny, no matter what his vehicle. In the past, science fiction has served as one such vehicle, combining phantasmagorical illusions with sensationalism. But science fiction has been realistically grounded and forced to evolve with the problems of today. Choosing this course, it has shifted its emphasis toward a bizarre mix of biochemistry and religion, reaching a maturity which few literary genres have yet displayed. This new science fiction represents a subtle union of these two, precision and sharp technicalities meeting with the mystical reverence of the occult. This anthology confirms this union. Roger Elwood’s collection of never-before-published stories are fascinatingly entwined around this central theme of biochemistry, subtly laced with the hidden mysteries of the occult. The entry of this anthology into the depths of biochemistry and its mingling with religion and the occult signal a new age for science fiction, a new vehicle through which man may continue his speculation of destiny.
R. A. Lafferty’s "And Walk Now Gently Through the Fire" is an absorbing encounter between the ancient Queer Fish (the Ichthyans) and their evolutionary counterparts, the Odd Fish. A chilling dip into the occult.
"Caught in the Organ Drift," a splendid contribution from Robert Silverberg, explores the possibilities of a society where man’s vital organs are draftable for transplant from the nation’s young to its senior citizens, the leaders of the society.
In "A Sense of Difference," Pamela Sargent examines the loneliness of a "family" of clones, a group derived from a single individual through a type of asexual reproduction. The conflict centers around the struggle of one of these clones to overcome his alienation both from his fellow clones and from his colleagues at the university he attends.
Also included are contributions from such well-known science fiction masters as Ted White, Barry N. Malzberg, Joan C. Holly, Robert Bloch, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Philip José Farmer and K. M. O’Donnell.
Future City
A vision of Man’s urban future in all new stories by 22 leading writers of science fiction.
Hindsight: 480 Seconds story by Harlan Ellison
The Undercity story Dean R. Koontz
Death of a City story Frank Herbert
The World as Will & Wallpaper story R.A. Lafferty
Getting Across novelette Robert Silverberg
Assassins of Air story George Zebrowski
5,000,000 AD story Miriam Allen deFord
The Most Primitive story Ray Russell
Chicago story Thomas F. Monteleone
Revolution story Barry N. Malzberg=Robin Schaeffer
In Dark Places story Joe L. Hensley
The Weariest River novelette Thomas N. Scortia
Apartment Hunting story Audrey L. Bilker & Harvey L. Bilker
City Lights, City Nights story Barry N. Malzberg=K.M. O’Donnell
Violation story William F. Nolan
Culture Lock story Barry N. Malzberg
Thine Alabaster Cities Gleam story Laurence M. Janifer
Meanwhile, We Eliminate story Andrew J. Offutt
The Sightseers story Ben Bova
Abendlandes poem Virginia Kidd
As a Drop poem D.M. Price
In Praise of New York poem Thomas M. Disch
Afterword essay Frederik Pohl
Foreword essay Clifford D. Simak
Preface essay Roger Elwood
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