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First published in 1974 by editor Creator/CharlesWSullivanIII, this GenreAnthology contains thirty ScienceFiction stories.
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!!Works in this anthology:
[[index]]
* "{{Literature/Backtracked}}", by Creator/BurtFiler (1968)
* "Literature/AllYouZombies", by Creator/RobertAHeinlein (1959)
* "Literature/TheMenWhoMurderedMohammed", by Creator/AlfredBester (1958)
* "Literature/RandomQuest", by Creator/JohnWyndham (1961)
* "Literature/ThusWeFrustrateCharlemagne", by Creator/RALafferty (1967)
* "Literature/TheMonsterFromNowhere", by Creator/NelsonSBond (1939) * "Literature/TheNewReality", by Creator/CharlesLHarness (1950)
* "Literature/NoSidedProfessor", by Creator/MartinGardner (1947)
* "Literature/AndHeBuiltACrookedHouse", by Creator/RobertAHeinlein
(1941)
* "Literature/TheFunTheyHad", by Creator/IsaacAsimov (1951)
* "Literature/PrimaryEducationOfTheCamiroi", by Creator/RALafferty (1966)
* "{{Literature/HEMEAC}}", by Creator/EGVonWald (1968)
* "Literature/ABoyAndHisDog", by Creator/HarlanEllison (1969)
* "{{Literature/Personal}}", by Creator/TuliKupferberg (1966)
* "{{Literature/Runaround}}", by Creator/IsaacAsimov (1942)
* "Literature/CallingDrClockwork", by Creator/RonGoulart (1965)
* "{{Literature/Masks}}", by Creator/DamonKnight (1968)
* "{{Literature/Specialist}}", by Creator/RobertSheckley (1953)
* "Literature/TheSentinel", by Creator/ArthurCClarke (1951)
* "Literature/TheGameOfRatAndDragon", by Creator/CordwainerSmith (1955)
* "Literature/TheDecisionMakers", by Creator/JosephGreen (1965)
* "Literature/ADeathInTheHouse", by Creator/CliffordDSimak (1959)
* "Literature/BuildUp", by Creator/JGBallard (1957)
* "{{Literature/Plenitude}}", by Creator/WillWorthington (1959)
* "Literature/TheWizardsOfPungsCorners", by Creator/FrederikPohl (1958)
* "Literature/RepentHarlequinSaidTheTicktockman", by Creator/HarlanEllison (1965)
* "Literature/NineLives", by Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin (1969)
* "Literature/GoldenAcres", by Creator/KitReed (1967)
* "Literature/PopulationImplosion", by Creator/AndrewJOffutt (1967)
* "Literature/TheTunnelAhead", by Creator/AliceGlaser (1961)
[[/index]]
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!!Tropes appearing in this work:
* AllFirstPersonNarratorsWriteLikeNovelists: In "Literature/TheWizardsOfPungsCorners", by Creator/FrederikPohl, the narration is given in first person to you, the audience, creating a FramingDevice where the narration switches between describing the events of the past and clarifying information for you, the audience. This allows for the omniscience of third-person as well as addressing the reader on a personal level.
* FramingDevice: In "Literature/TheWizardsOfPungsCorners", a {{Novelette}} by Creator/FrederikPohl, there is a [[AllFirstPersonNarratorsWriteLikeNovelists First-Person narrator telling the audience a story]] about Jack Tighe and the events of Pung. This allows for the omniscience of third-person as well as addressing the reader on a personal level.
* GivingRadioToTheRomans: In "Literature/ThusWeFrustrateCharlemagne", a ShortStory by Creator/RALafferty, the scientists kill one messenger in order to open up scientific exchange between Charlemagne's kingdom and the more advanced Muslim Spain, thus ending the [[DarkAgeEurope Dark Ages]] centuries earlier. They succeed, but don't realize they did. [[spoiler:They attempt something similar and end up sending civilization back to the [[OneMillionBC Stone Age]].]]
* HereThereBeDragons: In "Literature/TheGameOfRatAndDragon", by Creator/CordwainerSmith, terrible beasts can be found in the open hollow part of space, out between the galaxies, at the edges of the stars.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In "Literature/TheMenWhoMurderedMohammed", by Creator/AlfredBester, Professor Henry Hassell's obsession with [[MurderTheHypotenuse killing his wife's lover]] with TimeTravel sends him on a killing spree which ends up eliminating his own ancestry, [[TemporalParadox erasing himself instead]].
* MadScientist: In "Literature/TheMenWhoMurderedMohammed", a ShortStory by Creator/AlfredBester, the protagonist, Professor Henry Hassell, responds to finding his wife in the arms of another man by creating a time machine so he can go and [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill the other man's grandfather]]. The story also cites Ampere and Boltzman as examples of RealLife "mad professors".
* MurderTheHypotenuse: In "Literature/TheMenWhoMurderedMohammed", by Creator/AlfredBester, Professor Henry Hassell discovers his wife has been having an affair. Rather than killing the man directly, Professor Hassel [[MadScientist builds a time machine instead]], and uses it to kill the man's father, which doesn't work.
* TheNamesake: The title of "Literature/TheGameOfRatAndDragon", by Creator/CordwainerSmith, refers to a battle that humanity is fighting against an unknown enemy. Humans see this enemy as dragons, fierce and dangerous, capable of tearing apart a telepathic mind. Partners (telepathic descendants of cats) see this enemy as rats, nasty monsters that they can beat and kill.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: "Literature/TheGameOfRatAndDragon", a ShortStory by Creator/CordwainerSmith, has an unknown enemy that humans have named "dragons", in reference to HereThereBeDragons on the edges of a map. This enemy is fierce and dangerous, capable of tearing apart a telepathic mind. Partners (telepathic descendants of cats) instead see this enemy as a rat, their natural prey.
* TemporalParadox: In "Literature/TheMenWhoMurderedMohammed", by Creator/AlfredBester, Professor Henry Hassell is enraged over his wife's affair, and decides to [[MurderTheHypotenuse eliminate the other man]]. He does this by first killing the man's father before he was born, to no effect. So he tries to kill the grandfather, and again, nothing. Soon, he's gone on a killing spree against many key figures in history, all in the hopes that one of them would end the existence of his wife's lover. He discovers that no matter how much he changes history, it all continues to make no change in the present. All he succeeds in doing is [[HoistByHisOwnPetard erasing himself from history]].
* SubliminalAdvertising: In "Literature/TheWizardsOfPungsCorners", a {{Novelette}} by Creator/FrederikPohl, Jack Tighe discovers that old man Coglan is sneaking frames of naked men/women holding a box of Prune-Bran Whippets in a Creator/CharlieChan movie.
* SuperSpeedReading: In "Literature/PrimaryEducationOfTheCamiroi", a ShortStory by Creator/RALafferty, an alien race [[InvertedTrope inverts this trope]] by regarding those who read rapidly as intellectually inferior on the grounds that they don't take the time to absorb and memorise every detail.
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!!Works in this anthology:
[[index]]
* "{{Literature/Backtracked}}", by Creator/BurtFiler (1968)
* "Literature/AllYouZombies", by Creator/RobertAHeinlein (1959)
* "Literature/TheMenWhoMurderedMohammed", by Creator/AlfredBester (1958)
* "Literature/RandomQuest", by Creator/JohnWyndham (1961)
* "Literature/ThusWeFrustrateCharlemagne", by Creator/RALafferty (1967)
* "Literature/TheMonsterFromNowhere", by Creator/NelsonSBond (1939) * "Literature/TheNewReality", by Creator/CharlesLHarness (1950)
* "Literature/NoSidedProfessor", by Creator/MartinGardner (1947)
* "Literature/AndHeBuiltACrookedHouse", by Creator/RobertAHeinlein
(1941)
* "Literature/TheFunTheyHad", by Creator/IsaacAsimov (1951)
* "Literature/PrimaryEducationOfTheCamiroi", by Creator/RALafferty (1966)
* "{{Literature/HEMEAC}}", by Creator/EGVonWald (1968)
* "Literature/ABoyAndHisDog", by Creator/HarlanEllison (1969)
* "{{Literature/Personal}}", by Creator/TuliKupferberg (1966)
* "{{Literature/Runaround}}", by Creator/IsaacAsimov (1942)
* "Literature/CallingDrClockwork", by Creator/RonGoulart (1965)
* "{{Literature/Masks}}", by Creator/DamonKnight (1968)
* "{{Literature/Specialist}}", by Creator/RobertSheckley (1953)
* "Literature/TheSentinel", by Creator/ArthurCClarke (1951)
* "Literature/TheGameOfRatAndDragon", by Creator/CordwainerSmith (1955)
* "Literature/TheDecisionMakers", by Creator/JosephGreen (1965)
* "Literature/ADeathInTheHouse", by Creator/CliffordDSimak (1959)
* "Literature/BuildUp", by Creator/JGBallard (1957)
* "{{Literature/Plenitude}}", by Creator/WillWorthington (1959)
* "Literature/TheWizardsOfPungsCorners", by Creator/FrederikPohl (1958)
* "Literature/RepentHarlequinSaidTheTicktockman", by Creator/HarlanEllison (1965)
* "Literature/NineLives", by Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin (1969)
* "Literature/GoldenAcres", by Creator/KitReed (1967)
* "Literature/PopulationImplosion", by Creator/AndrewJOffutt (1967)
* "Literature/TheTunnelAhead", by Creator/AliceGlaser (1961)
[[/index]]
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!!Tropes appearing in this work:
* AllFirstPersonNarratorsWriteLikeNovelists: In "Literature/TheWizardsOfPungsCorners", by Creator/FrederikPohl, the narration is given in first person to you, the audience, creating a FramingDevice where the narration switches between describing the events of the past and clarifying information for you, the audience. This allows for the omniscience of third-person as well as addressing the reader on a personal level.
* FramingDevice: In "Literature/TheWizardsOfPungsCorners", a {{Novelette}} by Creator/FrederikPohl, there is a [[AllFirstPersonNarratorsWriteLikeNovelists First-Person narrator telling the audience a story]] about Jack Tighe and the events of Pung. This allows for the omniscience of third-person as well as addressing the reader on a personal level.
* GivingRadioToTheRomans: In "Literature/ThusWeFrustrateCharlemagne", a ShortStory by Creator/RALafferty, the scientists kill one messenger in order to open up scientific exchange between Charlemagne's kingdom and the more advanced Muslim Spain, thus ending the [[DarkAgeEurope Dark Ages]] centuries earlier. They succeed, but don't realize they did. [[spoiler:They attempt something similar and end up sending civilization back to the [[OneMillionBC Stone Age]].]]
* HereThereBeDragons: In "Literature/TheGameOfRatAndDragon", by Creator/CordwainerSmith, terrible beasts can be found in the open hollow part of space, out between the galaxies, at the edges of the stars.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In "Literature/TheMenWhoMurderedMohammed", by Creator/AlfredBester, Professor Henry Hassell's obsession with [[MurderTheHypotenuse killing his wife's lover]] with TimeTravel sends him on a killing spree which ends up eliminating his own ancestry, [[TemporalParadox erasing himself instead]].
* MadScientist: In "Literature/TheMenWhoMurderedMohammed", a ShortStory by Creator/AlfredBester, the protagonist, Professor Henry Hassell, responds to finding his wife in the arms of another man by creating a time machine so he can go and [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill the other man's grandfather]]. The story also cites Ampere and Boltzman as examples of RealLife "mad professors".
* MurderTheHypotenuse: In "Literature/TheMenWhoMurderedMohammed", by Creator/AlfredBester, Professor Henry Hassell discovers his wife has been having an affair. Rather than killing the man directly, Professor Hassel [[MadScientist builds a time machine instead]], and uses it to kill the man's father, which doesn't work.
* TheNamesake: The title of "Literature/TheGameOfRatAndDragon", by Creator/CordwainerSmith, refers to a battle that humanity is fighting against an unknown enemy. Humans see this enemy as dragons, fierce and dangerous, capable of tearing apart a telepathic mind. Partners (telepathic descendants of cats) see this enemy as rats, nasty monsters that they can beat and kill.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: "Literature/TheGameOfRatAndDragon", a ShortStory by Creator/CordwainerSmith, has an unknown enemy that humans have named "dragons", in reference to HereThereBeDragons on the edges of a map. This enemy is fierce and dangerous, capable of tearing apart a telepathic mind. Partners (telepathic descendants of cats) instead see this enemy as a rat, their natural prey.
* TemporalParadox: In "Literature/TheMenWhoMurderedMohammed", by Creator/AlfredBester, Professor Henry Hassell is enraged over his wife's affair, and decides to [[MurderTheHypotenuse eliminate the other man]]. He does this by first killing the man's father before he was born, to no effect. So he tries to kill the grandfather, and again, nothing. Soon, he's gone on a killing spree against many key figures in history, all in the hopes that one of them would end the existence of his wife's lover. He discovers that no matter how much he changes history, it all continues to make no change in the present. All he succeeds in doing is [[HoistByHisOwnPetard erasing himself from history]].
* SubliminalAdvertising: In "Literature/TheWizardsOfPungsCorners", a {{Novelette}} by Creator/FrederikPohl, Jack Tighe discovers that old man Coglan is sneaking frames of naked men/women holding a box of Prune-Bran Whippets in a Creator/CharlieChan movie.
* SuperSpeedReading: In "Literature/PrimaryEducationOfTheCamiroi", a ShortStory by Creator/RALafferty, an alien race [[InvertedTrope inverts this trope]] by regarding those who read rapidly as intellectually inferior on the grounds that they don't take the time to absorb and memorise every detail.
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