Cities of Wonder (1966) Anthology by Damon Knight (ed. Jim3692)
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Overview: Damon Francis Knight (1922 – 2002) was an American science fiction author, editor and critic. He is the author of "To Serve Man", a 1950 short story adapted for The Twilight Zone. He was married to fellow writer Kate Wilhelm. He entered science-fiction fandom at the age of eleven and published two issues of a fanzine entitled Snide.
Knight’s first professional sale was a cartoon drawing to a science-fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. His first story, "The Itching Hour", appeared in the Summer 1940 number of Futuria Fantasia, edited and published by Ray Bradbury. "Resilience" followed in the February 1941 number of Stirring Science Stories, edited by Donald Wollheim. An editorial error made the latter story’s ending incomprehensible; it was reprinted in a 1978 magazine in four pages with a two-page introduction by Knight.
At the time of his first story sale, he was living in New York, and was a member of the Futurians. One of his short stories describes paranormal disruption of a science fiction fan group, and contains cameo appearances of various Futurians and others under thinly-disguised names: for instance, non-Futurian SF writer H. Beam Piper is identified as "H. Dreyne Fifer".
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Contents:
Single Combat – by Robert Abernathy
Dumb Waiter – by Walter J. Miller
Jesting Pilot – by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
“It’s Great To Be Back” – by Robert A. Heinlein
Billenium – J. G. Ballard
Okie – by James Blish
The Luckiest Man in Denv – by C. M. Kornbluth
The Machine Stops – by E. M. Forster
The Underprivileged – by Brian W. Aldiss
By the Waters of Babylon – By Stephen Vincent Benét
Forgetfulness – by Don A. Stuart
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