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* EmphasizeEverything: In "Literature/ColdWar", by Creator/KrisNeville, the first half of a [[JoinTheArmyTheySaid [[RecruitersAlwaysLie recruitment advertisement]] for the space military is given in occasional AllCaps and multiple exclamation marks, even within sentences.
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* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: In "Literature/ColdWar", a ShortStory by Creator/KrisNeville, the story opens with the text of a recruitment advertisement for joining the military. [[EmphasizeEverything Ebullient phrasing]] is juxtaposed with banal instructions on how to sign up for military service aboard space stations.
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* RecruitersAlwaysLie: In "Literature/ColdWar", a ShortStory by Creator/KrisNeville, the story opens with the text of a recruitment advertisement for joining the military. [[EmphasizeEverything Ebullient phrasing]] is juxtaposed with banal instructions on how to sign up for military service aboard space stations.
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First published in 1969 by editor Creator/RobertHoskins, this ScienceFiction GenreAnthology contains thirteen stories and an extra introduction by Creator/PoulAnderson. The following stories are divided into sections according to [[StandardSciFiHistory a rough timeline]].
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!!Works in this anthology:
[[index]]
* "Literature/ColdWar", by Creator/KrisNeville (1949)
* "Literature/ThirdStage", by Creator/PoulAnderson (1962)
* "Literature/GentlemenBeSeated", by Creator/RobertAHeinlein (1948)
* "{{Literature/Jaywalker}}", by Creator/RossRocklynne (1950)
* "Literature/TheHated", by Creator/FrederikPohl (1958)
* "Literature/SunriseOnMercury", by Creator/RobertSilverberg (1957)
* "Literature/HopFriend", by Creator/TerryCarr (1962)
* "Literature/TheManWhoLostTheSea", by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon (1959)
* "Literature/FirstContact", by Creator/MurrayLeinster (1945)
* "[[Literature/GreenPatches Misbegotten Missionary]]", by Creator/IsaacAsimov (1950)
* "Literature/TheMarketInAliens", by Creator/KMODonnell (1968)
* "Literature/TheRulesOfTheRoad", by Creator/NormanSpinrad (1964)
* "{{Literature/Jetsam}}", by Creator/ABertramChandler (1953)
[[/index]]
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!!Tropes appearing in this work:
* DrivenToSuicide: "Literature/SunriseOnMercury", a ShortStory by Creator/RobertSilverberg, starts with Second Astrogator Lon Curtis preparing to kill himself. Flight Commander Harry Ross and the rest of ''Leverrier'''s crew are familiar with this nameless malaise, and must prevent him from succeeding while they carry out their normal mission.
* EmphasizeEverything: In "Literature/ColdWar", by Creator/KrisNeville, the first half of a [[JoinTheArmyTheySaid recruitment advertisement]] for the space military is given in occasional AllCaps and multiple exclamation marks, even within sentences.
* GovernmentConspiracy: In "Literature/ColdWar", by Creator/KrisNeville, the government has been suppressing leaks of information about their military space station program, to the point of carrying out assassinations.
* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: In "Literature/ColdWar", a ShortStory by Creator/KrisNeville, the story opens with the text of a recruitment advertisement for joining the military. [[EmphasizeEverything Ebullient phrasing]] is juxtaposed with banal instructions on how to sign up for military service aboard space stations.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In "Literature/SunriseOnMercury", a ShortStory by Creator/RobertSilverberg, the crew of ''Leverrier'' don't realize how their captain or special excursion suit disappeared. [[spoiler:It is implied that the [[TelepathicSpacemen telepathic aliens]] on {{UsefulNotes/Mercury}} manipulated their memories so that Flight Commander Ross could establish FirstContact.]]
* PenName: "Literature/TheMarketInAliens" is credited to [[Creator/KMODonnell K. M. O'Donnell]], a false name used by Creator/BarryNMalzberg.
* RockPaperScissors: In "Literature/ThirdStage", by Creator/PoulAnderson, Swanberg and Holt decide which of them will die to bring the spaceship home using a variation of [=Rock-Paper-Scissors=] called "odds or evens", where the number of fingers determines the winner (an odd total means Holt wins, and an even total means Swanberg wins).
* SplitScreenPhoneCall: In "Literature/ThirdStage", a ShortStory by Creator/PoulAnderson, television reporter Tom Zellman describes how the broadcast will display himself in the Cape Canaveral base and displaying Jane and her children on the other side. He also facilitates connecting her husband, the astronaut, for public broadcast.
* StandardSciFiHistory: Although none of these stories are taking place [[TheVerse in the same overall setting]], this {{Anthology}} groups certain stories together, based on "when" they would take place in a typical SF timeline. The first stories are about characters trying to send rockets into space, then to other planets within the solar system, then to the distant stars, and the last grouping is called "Epilog", as in, "what happens after".
* SwordOfDamocles: In "Literature/ColdWar", by Creator/KrisNeville, this weapon is called a "negative defense" and "rule by threat". America has space stations set up as atomic weapons platforms, and the lowest level of response they have to another nation's militarization is to unleash a nuclear bomb on their territory. While explaining this to a senator, the President implies that it is as if the sword hangs over America's head instead of their enemies.
* {{Tagline}}: "Blast off into the unknown with the greatest SF writers of today" -- original cover
* TelepathicSpacemen: In "Literature/SunriseOnMercury", a ShortStory by Creator/RobertSilverberg, the crew of ''Leverrier'' discover alien life on the sunside of {{UsefulNotes/Mercury}}. Somehow life relating to pools of molten zinc are able to communicate with humans in orbit around the planet. This alien life facilitated Second Astrogator Lon Curtis's attempt [[DrivenToSuicide to kill himself]], as well as the crew's escape afterward.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: In "Literature/ColdWar", by Creator/KrisNeville, the military personnell who are sent to work on the space stations become so obsessed over their role as arbiters of life and death, that five of them so far have gone insane when they return home for a vacation. One of them took a butcher's knife to kill their wife and kid, and no longer remember doing so.
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!!Works in this anthology:
[[index]]
* "Literature/ColdWar", by Creator/KrisNeville (1949)
* "Literature/ThirdStage", by Creator/PoulAnderson (1962)
* "Literature/GentlemenBeSeated", by Creator/RobertAHeinlein (1948)
* "{{Literature/Jaywalker}}", by Creator/RossRocklynne (1950)
* "Literature/TheHated", by Creator/FrederikPohl (1958)
* "Literature/SunriseOnMercury", by Creator/RobertSilverberg (1957)
* "Literature/HopFriend", by Creator/TerryCarr (1962)
* "Literature/TheManWhoLostTheSea", by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon (1959)
* "Literature/FirstContact", by Creator/MurrayLeinster (1945)
* "[[Literature/GreenPatches Misbegotten Missionary]]", by Creator/IsaacAsimov (1950)
* "Literature/TheMarketInAliens", by Creator/KMODonnell (1968)
* "Literature/TheRulesOfTheRoad", by Creator/NormanSpinrad (1964)
* "{{Literature/Jetsam}}", by Creator/ABertramChandler (1953)
[[/index]]
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!!Tropes appearing in this work:
* DrivenToSuicide: "Literature/SunriseOnMercury", a ShortStory by Creator/RobertSilverberg, starts with Second Astrogator Lon Curtis preparing to kill himself. Flight Commander Harry Ross and the rest of ''Leverrier'''s crew are familiar with this nameless malaise, and must prevent him from succeeding while they carry out their normal mission.
* EmphasizeEverything: In "Literature/ColdWar", by Creator/KrisNeville, the first half of a [[JoinTheArmyTheySaid recruitment advertisement]] for the space military is given in occasional AllCaps and multiple exclamation marks, even within sentences.
* GovernmentConspiracy: In "Literature/ColdWar", by Creator/KrisNeville, the government has been suppressing leaks of information about their military space station program, to the point of carrying out assassinations.
* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: In "Literature/ColdWar", a ShortStory by Creator/KrisNeville, the story opens with the text of a recruitment advertisement for joining the military. [[EmphasizeEverything Ebullient phrasing]] is juxtaposed with banal instructions on how to sign up for military service aboard space stations.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In "Literature/SunriseOnMercury", a ShortStory by Creator/RobertSilverberg, the crew of ''Leverrier'' don't realize how their captain or special excursion suit disappeared. [[spoiler:It is implied that the [[TelepathicSpacemen telepathic aliens]] on {{UsefulNotes/Mercury}} manipulated their memories so that Flight Commander Ross could establish FirstContact.]]
* PenName: "Literature/TheMarketInAliens" is credited to [[Creator/KMODonnell K. M. O'Donnell]], a false name used by Creator/BarryNMalzberg.
* RockPaperScissors: In "Literature/ThirdStage", by Creator/PoulAnderson, Swanberg and Holt decide which of them will die to bring the spaceship home using a variation of [=Rock-Paper-Scissors=] called "odds or evens", where the number of fingers determines the winner (an odd total means Holt wins, and an even total means Swanberg wins).
* SplitScreenPhoneCall: In "Literature/ThirdStage", a ShortStory by Creator/PoulAnderson, television reporter Tom Zellman describes how the broadcast will display himself in the Cape Canaveral base and displaying Jane and her children on the other side. He also facilitates connecting her husband, the astronaut, for public broadcast.
* StandardSciFiHistory: Although none of these stories are taking place [[TheVerse in the same overall setting]], this {{Anthology}} groups certain stories together, based on "when" they would take place in a typical SF timeline. The first stories are about characters trying to send rockets into space, then to other planets within the solar system, then to the distant stars, and the last grouping is called "Epilog", as in, "what happens after".
* SwordOfDamocles: In "Literature/ColdWar", by Creator/KrisNeville, this weapon is called a "negative defense" and "rule by threat". America has space stations set up as atomic weapons platforms, and the lowest level of response they have to another nation's militarization is to unleash a nuclear bomb on their territory. While explaining this to a senator, the President implies that it is as if the sword hangs over America's head instead of their enemies.
* {{Tagline}}: "Blast off into the unknown with the greatest SF writers of today" -- original cover
* TelepathicSpacemen: In "Literature/SunriseOnMercury", a ShortStory by Creator/RobertSilverberg, the crew of ''Leverrier'' discover alien life on the sunside of {{UsefulNotes/Mercury}}. Somehow life relating to pools of molten zinc are able to communicate with humans in orbit around the planet. This alien life facilitated Second Astrogator Lon Curtis's attempt [[DrivenToSuicide to kill himself]], as well as the crew's escape afterward.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: In "Literature/ColdWar", by Creator/KrisNeville, the military personnell who are sent to work on the space stations become so obsessed over their role as arbiters of life and death, that five of them so far have gone insane when they return home for a vacation. One of them took a butcher's knife to kill their wife and kid, and no longer remember doing so.
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