5 Books by Damon Knight
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Overview: Damon Francis Knight was an American science fiction author, editor, and critic.
Knight’s first professional sale was a cartoon drawing to a science-fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. His first story, "Resilience", was published in 1941. He is best known as the author of "To Serve Man", which was adapted for The Twilight Zone. He was a recipient of the Hugo Award, founder of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), cofounder of the National Fantasy Fan Federation, cofounder of the Milford Writer’s Workshop, and cofounder of the Clarion Writers Workshop. Knight lived in Eugene, Oregon, with his wife Kate Wilhelm.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
13 French Science Fiction Stories
Table of contents:
. Introduction (1965) by Damon Knight
. Juliette (1959) by Claude F. Cheinisse
. The Blind Pilot (1959) by Charles Henneberg
. Olivia (1960) by Henri Damonti
. The Notary and the Conspiracy (1962) by Henri Damonti
. The Vana (1959) by Alain Doremieux
. The Devil’s Goddaughter (1960) by Suzanne Malaval
. Moon-Fishers (1959) by Charles Henneberg
. The Non-Humans (1958) by Charles Henneberg
. After Three Hundred Years (1922) by Pierre Mille
. The Monster (1958) by Gerard Klein
. A Little More Caviar? (1963) by Claude Veillot
. The Chain of Love (1955) by Catherine Cliff
. The Dead Fish (1955) by Boris Vian
. About the Authors (1965) by Damon Knight
A for Anything aka The People Makers
In a near future USA an obscure inventor creates the Gizmo – a device which can duplicate anything, including itself. The social and economic implications of this machine are explored in a brilliant and terrifying extrapolation, first published in 1959. Damon Knight is an SFFWA Grandmaster.
Analogue Men
The Millennium is here. No more wars, no more gang killings, no more drunken accidents. Because you have to be good, when there’s an Analogue in your brain! You’re a sheep, in a world of sheep…yes, the world is perfect, until a wolf comes along – the man without an Analogue, the enemy, the man outside the law. then what are you going to do, sheep – run, or turn wolf?
The Rithian Terror
The story takes place in the year 2521. The Earth is the dominant power in a Galactic empire, with a policy of ruthlessly conquering or undermining other alien races which it encounters. The latest are the Rithians, and after some years of clandestine harassment by Earth, the Rithians have managed to place a group of spies disguised as humans on the Earth. By the time the infiltration is discovered, only one of the Rithians remains. Thorne Spangler, a security officer, is given the task of locating the remaining Rithian. He enlists the help of a native of an "uncivilized" human planet on the fringes of the empire, which has good dealings with Rithians. A primary source of tension is the conflict between these two: the Earthman who rigidly follows protocols, and the outsider who is loyal to Earth but contemptuous of what he sees as an ossified and decadent civilization.
The Sun Saboteurs
In the future, Earth has been devastated by war and disease and supports only a primitive agrarian society. Most Earthmen live elsewhere, as émigrés on planets that are populated by alien species. The author suggests that the human species is the only one plagued by "original sin", i.e. by an innate tendency to lie, cheat, kill; aliens have come to accept these traits without understanding them. The story takes place among a group of humans in the "Earth Quarter", a ghetto on the planet Palu that is populated by an insect-like alien race called the Niori. The story opens with a visit by a representative of a political group, the "Minority People’s League", which endorses the return of humans to their ancestral planet and accommodation with the aliens. The envoy is attacked and murdered by a group of thugs who see all aliens as inferior to humans and who seek retribution for humans’ second-class status. Their leader, Rack, commandeers a space ship and convinces a group from the Quarter to follow him as he establishes a new colony on an uninhabited planet. Instead, Rack puts them to work building "total-conversion bombs" and begins a campaign of using the bombs to destroy the suns of alien solar systems (hence the "sun saboteurs" of the title). Eventually Rack is stopped by a fleet of galactic (alien) ships, but he barely escapes and returns to Palu. The humans murder him, but are nevertheless forced by the Niori to leave. At the story’s close, the humans are preparing to board a ship for Earth.
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