Great Short Novels of Science Fiction by Robert Silverberg, A. Bertram Chandler, C.M. Kornbluth, Jack Vance, Charles V. DeVet, Wyman Guin, Roger Zelazny
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Overview: From the introduction: Since one of the tasks of a science-fiction writer is to create richly detailed worlds of the imagination, the short novel form is unusually well suited to the science fiction medium. A short story, if it is to be cohere within its brief compass, can give no more than a single vivid glimpse of the invented world; a full-length novel often becomes so engrossed in the necessities of plot and counterplot that the background becomes obscured. But in the intermediate length, the novella of twenty to thirty thousand words, there is ample space for development of ideas and themes, without the special technical problems imposed by the novel form.
From the point of view of commercial publishing practices, the novella is an awkward item. It is usually too short to stand alone as an independent book (without the fraudulences wide margins and heavily leaded type) and yet so long that it does not fit readily into the anthologies of short fiction that are so common in the science-fiction field. Thus, some of the finest works of science fiction have languished unreprinted since their original magazine appearances years ago, and others have been reprinted only in the bulky anthologies of the 1950s, when printing costs were not what they are today. Of the six stories in this collection, two are new to book form, one has been unavailable for nearly twenty years, and the other three have come and gone in various ephemeral editions. I hope by bringing them together here to demonstrate the versatility and range of the science-fiction novella, and to restore to print some remarkably challenging and exciting stories.
Genre: Science Fiction
Contents:
Giant Killer (1945) by A. Bertram Chandler
Two Dooms (1958) by C. M. Kornbluth
Telek (1952) by Jack Vance
Second Game (1958) by Katherine MacLean and Charles V. De Vet
Beyond Bedlam (1951) by Wyman Guin
The Graveyard Heart (1964) by Roger Zelazny
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