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* CompoundInterestTimeTravelGambit: Creator/MackReynolds's "Literature/CompoundedInterest": A 1956 ShortStory where a time traveler places a small sum at 10% in a bank in medieval Venice and renews the contract every 100 years. By the 1960s, the sum exceeds the price of everything in the world several times over. Then he comes to the organization servicing [[CapitalLettersAreMagic The Contract]] and starts gradually withdrawing money. What for? [[StableTimeLoop To build a time machine to go to medieval Venice to place the money]]. You see, when The Contract employees concluded the scheme was started by a time traveler, they consulted with several famous physicists, including him, about the possibility of time travel. He told them time travel was impossible, but later figured that it was possible, [[RealityEnsues only R&D would be prohibitively expensive]].expensive. Thus he came with the plan and started withdrawing money [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble before]] he deposited anything.
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First published in 1988 by editors Creator/IsaacAsimov and Creator/MartinHGreenberg. This GenreAnthology contains fifteen ScienceFiction stories that were first published in 1956, ranging in length from ShortStory to {{Novelette}}. The introduction describes "the world outside reality" first, marking significant historical events, sports trivia, and literary publications. The "real world" is the world of science fiction and fantasy pop culture.
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!!Works in this anthology:
[[index]]
* "Literature/BrightsideCrossing", by Creator/AlanENourse
* "Literature/ClericalError", by Creator/MarkClifton
* "Literature/SilentBrother", by Creator/AlgisBudrys
* "Literature/TheCountryOfTheKind", by Creator/DamonKnight
* "Literature/ExplorationTeam", by Creator/MurrayLeinster
* "Literature/RiteOfPassage", by Creator/HenryKuttner and Creator/CLMoore
* "Literature/TheManWhoCameEarly", by Creator/PoulAnderson
* "Literature/AWorkOfArt", by Creator/JamesBlish
* "Literature/HorrerHowce", by Creator/MargaretStClair
* "Literature/CompoundedInterest", by Creator/MackReynolds
* "Literature/TheDoorstop", by Creator/ReginaldBretnor
* "Literature/TheLastQuestion", by Creator/IsaacAsimov
* "Literature/StrangerStation", by Creator/DamonKnight
* "[[Literature/TwoThousandSixtySixElectionDay 2066: Election Day]]", by Creator/MichaelShaara
* "Literature/AndNowTheNews …", by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon
[[/index]]
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!!''Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 18 (1956)'' provides examples of:
* {{Biography}}: Each story is prefaced by a short description of why this story (from this author) was chosen to represent one of the fifteen best stories of the year along with a paragraph from Creator/IsaacAsimov's perspective.
* CompoundInterestTimeTravelGambit: Creator/MackReynolds's "Literature/CompoundedInterest": A 1956 ShortStory where a time traveler places a small sum at 10% in a bank in medieval Venice and renews the contract every 100 years. By the 1960s, the sum exceeds the price of everything in the world several times over. Then he comes to the organization servicing [[CapitalLettersAreMagic The Contract]] and starts gradually withdrawing money. What for? [[StableTimeLoop To build a time machine to go to medieval Venice to place the money]]. You see, when The Contract employees concluded the scheme was started by a time traveler, they consulted with several famous physicists, including him, about the possibility of time travel. He told them time travel was impossible, but later figured that it was possible, [[RealityEnsues only R&D would be prohibitively expensive]]. Thus he came with the plan and started withdrawing money [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble before]] he deposited anything.
* FinaleTitleDrop: Creator/MarkClifton's "Literature/ClericalError": Although they're mentioned a few times during this story, the last line of the story comes from Miss Verity as she comes to rescue Dr Kingston, saying, "it seems that while I was on my vacation, you made a… ah… clerical error." It refers to Dr Kingston accidentally signing a paper that had him imprisoned as one of his own mental patients. [[spoiler:Actually, he did it on purpose, but in such a way that nobody would think it was deliberate.]]
* FramingDevice: Creator/AlanENourse's "Literature/BrightsideCrossing": The story starts in third-person, following events happening around James Baron as he visits an exclusive club called the Red Lion. When he meets Peter Claney, the only known survivor of an attempt to cross Mercury's [[TidallyLockedPlanet sunside]], the story [[SwitchingPOV switches]] to Peter Claney's FirstPersonPerspective to talk about his failure. The story returns to the Red Lion occasionally (going back to third person when it does so).
* NextSundayAD: Creator/MarkClifton's "Literature/ClericalError": This story takes place a few years after 1958 (it was published in 1956). No technological advances have occurred, although dedicating an entire mental hospital to government employees is not typical for the time period. Creator/MarkClifton was predicting a society so obsessed with preventing disloyalty to the nation that scientists were regularly going insane as a symptom of the larger problem.
* ShoutOut: In the introduction, multiple works are mentioned as being first published or becoming hits in 1956:
** ''Series/The64000Question''
** ''Literature/AgentOfTheUnknown'', by Creator/MargaretStClair
** ''Literature/{{Andersonville}}'', by Creator/MacKinlayKantor
** ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays1956''
** ''Series/AsTheWorldTurns''
** ''Theatre/AuntieMame''
** ''Film/BabyDoll''
** ''Literature/BangTheDrumSlowly'', by Creator/MarkHarris
** ''Film/TheBeastOfHollowMountain''
** ''Film/BeastWithAMillionEyes''
** Creator/MelBrooks is referenced.
** ''Film/BrideOfTheMonster'', starring Creator/BelaLugosi (who unfortunately died this same year).
** ''Film/TheCreatureThatWalksAmongUs''
** ''Film/TheCreepingUnknown''
** ''Literature/DoubleStar'', by Creator/RobertAHeinlein, for winning the UsefulNotes/HugoAward for best novel.
** ''Series/TheEdgeOfNight''
** ''Literature/ErosAndCivilization'', by Creator/HerbertMarcuse
** ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet''
** ''Literature/GiovannisRoom'', by Creator/JamesBaldwin
** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfMonsters1956''
** "Music/TheGreatPretender", by Music/{{Platters}}
** ''Literature/TheGreenOdyssey'', by Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer
** ''Literature/{{Howl}}'', by Creator/AllenGinsberg
** ''Series/ILoveLucy''
** ''Fanfic/{{Innuendo}}'', a fan-magazine by Creator/TerryCarr.
** ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers''
** ''Film/ItConqueredTheWorld'', directed by Creator/RogerCorman.
** ''Film/TheKingAndI''
** ''Theatre/LilAbner''
** ''Theatre/LongDaysJourneyIntoNight''
** ''Film/LustForLife''
** "Music/MackTheKnife"
** ''Magazine/TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction'', due to editor Creator/JFrancisMcComas leaving and being replaced by Creator/AnthonyBoucher
** ''Literature/TheManWhoJaped'', by Creator/PhilipKDick
** ''Theatre/MyFairLady''
** "Music/MyPrayer"
** ''Literature/{{Nerves}}'', by Creator/LesterDelRey
** ''Film/NineteenEightyFour''
** ''Literature/PeytonPlace'', by Creator/GraceMetalious
** ''Film/ThePhantomFrom10000Leagues''
** Music/ElvisPresley’s "Music/BlueSuedeShoes", "Music/HoundDog", "Music/LoveMeTender", and "Music/HeartbreakHotel".
** ''Literature/ThePowerElite'', by Creator/CWrightMills
** ''Film/{{Rififi}}''
** ''Magazine/SatelliteScienceFiction'', for beginning publication this year with head editor Creator/SamMerwinJr.
** ''Magazine/ScienceFictionAdventures''
** ''Film/TheSearchers'', directed by Creator/JohnFord
** ''Literature/SeizeTheDay'', by Creator/SaulBellow
** ''Theatre/SeparateTables''
** ''Film/TheSeventhSeal'', directed by Creator/IngmarBergman
** ''Literature/TheShrinkingMan'', by Creator/RichardMatheson
** ''Literature/SolomonsStone'', by Creator/LSpragueDeCamp
** ''Literature/StarWays'', by Creator/PoulAnderson
** ''Magazine/SuperScienceFiction''
** ''Literature/ToLiveForever'', by Creator/JackVance
** ''Theatre/WaitingForGodot'', written by Creator/SamuelBeckett
** ''Literature/AWalkOnTheWildSide'', by Creator/NelsonAlgren
** ''Film/WarAndPeace''
** "Music/WhyDoFoolsFallInLove", by Music/FrankieLymanAndTheTeenagers
* SwitchingPOV: Creator/AlanENourse's "Literature/BrightsideCrossing": Once the FramingDevice (written in third-person) of James Baron's desire to cross Mercury's [[TidallyLockedPlanet sunside]] is established, the perspective switches to Peter Claney, the only known survivor of the attempt. The narrative uses FirstPersonPerspective while Peter is telling the story about his failure, and occasionally switches back to the FramingDevice (going back to third person when it does so).
* SymbioticPossession: Creator/AlgisBudrys's "Literature/SilentBrother": The title refers to a nonphysical creature that the protagonist calls his "brother". His "brother" is from a planet in the Alpha Centauri system and by joining with a human, they can repair major damage, help with mental stability, and even death can be nullified.
* TechnicolorScience: Creator/MarkClifton's "Literature/ClericalError": Dr Kingston points out that psychiatrists have intricate laboratories, shiny tools, mechanical pencils drawing lines on drums of paper, and flashing lights on electronic screen, which "[[InvokedTrope proves]]" that psychiatry is a real science.
* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: Creator/MarkClifton's "Literature/ClericalError": Dr Maxfield believes that his employee, David Strom, went insane due to being on the verge of a scientific breakthrough that would determine the fate of the world, [[PatrioticFervor or even, the nation]]. He spends the entire story in the care of a mental hospital dedicated to government employees.
* TidallyLockedPlanet: Creator/AlanENourse's "Literature/BrightsideCrossing": The title refers to UsefulNotes/{{Mercury}} having one side facing the sun, and therefore "bright", while the other side faces away from the sun. There's a scientific outpost based near Mercury's north pole in the "twilight" zone.
* TimeTravel:
** Creator/PoulAnderson's "Literature/TheManWhoCameEarly": The titular man was sent back in time after a lightning strike.
** Creator/MackReynolds's "Literature/CompoundedInterest": A 1956 ShortStory where a time traveler [[CompoundInterestTimeTravelGambit invests a small sum at 10% interest in medieval Venice and renews the contract every 100 years]]. Once he realized that time travel was possible, [[RealityEnsues but prohibitively expensive]], he began withdrawing money [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble before]] he deposited anything.
* TrappedInThePast: Creator/PoulAnderson's "Literature/TheManWhoCameEarly": In this {{novelette}}, an American soldier stationed in Iceland is sent back to the Viking Era after being hit by lightning.
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!!Works in this anthology:
[[index]]
* "Literature/BrightsideCrossing", by Creator/AlanENourse
* "Literature/ClericalError", by Creator/MarkClifton
* "Literature/SilentBrother", by Creator/AlgisBudrys
* "Literature/TheCountryOfTheKind", by Creator/DamonKnight
* "Literature/ExplorationTeam", by Creator/MurrayLeinster
* "Literature/RiteOfPassage", by Creator/HenryKuttner and Creator/CLMoore
* "Literature/TheManWhoCameEarly", by Creator/PoulAnderson
* "Literature/AWorkOfArt", by Creator/JamesBlish
* "Literature/HorrerHowce", by Creator/MargaretStClair
* "Literature/CompoundedInterest", by Creator/MackReynolds
* "Literature/TheDoorstop", by Creator/ReginaldBretnor
* "Literature/TheLastQuestion", by Creator/IsaacAsimov
* "Literature/StrangerStation", by Creator/DamonKnight
* "[[Literature/TwoThousandSixtySixElectionDay 2066: Election Day]]", by Creator/MichaelShaara
* "Literature/AndNowTheNews …", by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon
[[/index]]
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!!''Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 18 (1956)'' provides examples of:
* {{Biography}}: Each story is prefaced by a short description of why this story (from this author) was chosen to represent one of the fifteen best stories of the year along with a paragraph from Creator/IsaacAsimov's perspective.
* CompoundInterestTimeTravelGambit: Creator/MackReynolds's "Literature/CompoundedInterest": A 1956 ShortStory where a time traveler places a small sum at 10% in a bank in medieval Venice and renews the contract every 100 years. By the 1960s, the sum exceeds the price of everything in the world several times over. Then he comes to the organization servicing [[CapitalLettersAreMagic The Contract]] and starts gradually withdrawing money. What for? [[StableTimeLoop To build a time machine to go to medieval Venice to place the money]]. You see, when The Contract employees concluded the scheme was started by a time traveler, they consulted with several famous physicists, including him, about the possibility of time travel. He told them time travel was impossible, but later figured that it was possible, [[RealityEnsues only R&D would be prohibitively expensive]]. Thus he came with the plan and started withdrawing money [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble before]] he deposited anything.
* FinaleTitleDrop: Creator/MarkClifton's "Literature/ClericalError": Although they're mentioned a few times during this story, the last line of the story comes from Miss Verity as she comes to rescue Dr Kingston, saying, "it seems that while I was on my vacation, you made a… ah… clerical error." It refers to Dr Kingston accidentally signing a paper that had him imprisoned as one of his own mental patients. [[spoiler:Actually, he did it on purpose, but in such a way that nobody would think it was deliberate.]]
* FramingDevice: Creator/AlanENourse's "Literature/BrightsideCrossing": The story starts in third-person, following events happening around James Baron as he visits an exclusive club called the Red Lion. When he meets Peter Claney, the only known survivor of an attempt to cross Mercury's [[TidallyLockedPlanet sunside]], the story [[SwitchingPOV switches]] to Peter Claney's FirstPersonPerspective to talk about his failure. The story returns to the Red Lion occasionally (going back to third person when it does so).
* NextSundayAD: Creator/MarkClifton's "Literature/ClericalError": This story takes place a few years after 1958 (it was published in 1956). No technological advances have occurred, although dedicating an entire mental hospital to government employees is not typical for the time period. Creator/MarkClifton was predicting a society so obsessed with preventing disloyalty to the nation that scientists were regularly going insane as a symptom of the larger problem.
* ShoutOut: In the introduction, multiple works are mentioned as being first published or becoming hits in 1956:
** ''Series/The64000Question''
** ''Literature/AgentOfTheUnknown'', by Creator/MargaretStClair
** ''Literature/{{Andersonville}}'', by Creator/MacKinlayKantor
** ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays1956''
** ''Series/AsTheWorldTurns''
** ''Theatre/AuntieMame''
** ''Film/BabyDoll''
** ''Literature/BangTheDrumSlowly'', by Creator/MarkHarris
** ''Film/TheBeastOfHollowMountain''
** ''Film/BeastWithAMillionEyes''
** Creator/MelBrooks is referenced.
** ''Film/BrideOfTheMonster'', starring Creator/BelaLugosi (who unfortunately died this same year).
** ''Film/TheCreatureThatWalksAmongUs''
** ''Film/TheCreepingUnknown''
** ''Literature/DoubleStar'', by Creator/RobertAHeinlein, for winning the UsefulNotes/HugoAward for best novel.
** ''Series/TheEdgeOfNight''
** ''Literature/ErosAndCivilization'', by Creator/HerbertMarcuse
** ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet''
** ''Literature/GiovannisRoom'', by Creator/JamesBaldwin
** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfMonsters1956''
** "Music/TheGreatPretender", by Music/{{Platters}}
** ''Literature/TheGreenOdyssey'', by Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer
** ''Literature/{{Howl}}'', by Creator/AllenGinsberg
** ''Series/ILoveLucy''
** ''Fanfic/{{Innuendo}}'', a fan-magazine by Creator/TerryCarr.
** ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers''
** ''Film/ItConqueredTheWorld'', directed by Creator/RogerCorman.
** ''Film/TheKingAndI''
** ''Theatre/LilAbner''
** ''Theatre/LongDaysJourneyIntoNight''
** ''Film/LustForLife''
** "Music/MackTheKnife"
** ''Magazine/TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction'', due to editor Creator/JFrancisMcComas leaving and being replaced by Creator/AnthonyBoucher
** ''Literature/TheManWhoJaped'', by Creator/PhilipKDick
** ''Theatre/MyFairLady''
** "Music/MyPrayer"
** ''Literature/{{Nerves}}'', by Creator/LesterDelRey
** ''Film/NineteenEightyFour''
** ''Literature/PeytonPlace'', by Creator/GraceMetalious
** ''Film/ThePhantomFrom10000Leagues''
** Music/ElvisPresley’s "Music/BlueSuedeShoes", "Music/HoundDog", "Music/LoveMeTender", and "Music/HeartbreakHotel".
** ''Literature/ThePowerElite'', by Creator/CWrightMills
** ''Film/{{Rififi}}''
** ''Magazine/SatelliteScienceFiction'', for beginning publication this year with head editor Creator/SamMerwinJr.
** ''Magazine/ScienceFictionAdventures''
** ''Film/TheSearchers'', directed by Creator/JohnFord
** ''Literature/SeizeTheDay'', by Creator/SaulBellow
** ''Theatre/SeparateTables''
** ''Film/TheSeventhSeal'', directed by Creator/IngmarBergman
** ''Literature/TheShrinkingMan'', by Creator/RichardMatheson
** ''Literature/SolomonsStone'', by Creator/LSpragueDeCamp
** ''Literature/StarWays'', by Creator/PoulAnderson
** ''Magazine/SuperScienceFiction''
** ''Literature/ToLiveForever'', by Creator/JackVance
** ''Theatre/WaitingForGodot'', written by Creator/SamuelBeckett
** ''Literature/AWalkOnTheWildSide'', by Creator/NelsonAlgren
** ''Film/WarAndPeace''
** "Music/WhyDoFoolsFallInLove", by Music/FrankieLymanAndTheTeenagers
* SwitchingPOV: Creator/AlanENourse's "Literature/BrightsideCrossing": Once the FramingDevice (written in third-person) of James Baron's desire to cross Mercury's [[TidallyLockedPlanet sunside]] is established, the perspective switches to Peter Claney, the only known survivor of the attempt. The narrative uses FirstPersonPerspective while Peter is telling the story about his failure, and occasionally switches back to the FramingDevice (going back to third person when it does so).
* SymbioticPossession: Creator/AlgisBudrys's "Literature/SilentBrother": The title refers to a nonphysical creature that the protagonist calls his "brother". His "brother" is from a planet in the Alpha Centauri system and by joining with a human, they can repair major damage, help with mental stability, and even death can be nullified.
* TechnicolorScience: Creator/MarkClifton's "Literature/ClericalError": Dr Kingston points out that psychiatrists have intricate laboratories, shiny tools, mechanical pencils drawing lines on drums of paper, and flashing lights on electronic screen, which "[[InvokedTrope proves]]" that psychiatry is a real science.
* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: Creator/MarkClifton's "Literature/ClericalError": Dr Maxfield believes that his employee, David Strom, went insane due to being on the verge of a scientific breakthrough that would determine the fate of the world, [[PatrioticFervor or even, the nation]]. He spends the entire story in the care of a mental hospital dedicated to government employees.
* TidallyLockedPlanet: Creator/AlanENourse's "Literature/BrightsideCrossing": The title refers to UsefulNotes/{{Mercury}} having one side facing the sun, and therefore "bright", while the other side faces away from the sun. There's a scientific outpost based near Mercury's north pole in the "twilight" zone.
* TimeTravel:
** Creator/PoulAnderson's "Literature/TheManWhoCameEarly": The titular man was sent back in time after a lightning strike.
** Creator/MackReynolds's "Literature/CompoundedInterest": A 1956 ShortStory where a time traveler [[CompoundInterestTimeTravelGambit invests a small sum at 10% interest in medieval Venice and renews the contract every 100 years]]. Once he realized that time travel was possible, [[RealityEnsues but prohibitively expensive]], he began withdrawing money [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble before]] he deposited anything.
* TrappedInThePast: Creator/PoulAnderson's "Literature/TheManWhoCameEarly": In this {{novelette}}, an American soldier stationed in Iceland is sent back to the Viking Era after being hit by lightning.
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