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First published in 1963, this book is an {{Anthology}} of ScienceFiction stories edited by Creator/RobertPMills. Each story [[TheAnnotatedEdition contains a foreword]] by its respective author who explains why that story [[CreatorsFavorite is one of their favourites]]. The selection of story types is intentionally broad to showcase the "many different worlds" that Science Fiction can lead to.
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!!Works in the Anthology:
[[index]]
* "Literature/TheFirstMen" by Creator/HowardFast (1960)
* "Literature/AWorkOfArt" by Creator/JamesBlish (1956)
* "Literature/EveningPrimrose" by Creator/JohnCollier (1940)
* "Literature/MementoHomo" by Creator/WalterMMillerJr. (1954)
* "Literature/AMiracleOfRareDevice" by Creator/RayBradbury (1962)
* "Literature/AllYouZombies" by Creator/RobertAHeinlein (1959)
* "{{Literature/Faq}}'" by GeorgePElliott (1952)
* "Literature/BabelII" by Creator/DamonKnight (1953)
* "Literature/ASaucerOfLoneliness" by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon (1953)
* "Literature/NightPiece" by Creator/PoulAnderson (1961)
* "Literature/NowLetUsSleep" by Creator/AvramDavidson (1957)
* "Literature/TheStrangeGirl" by Creator/MarkVanDoren (1962)
* "Literature/TheQuestForSaintAquin" by Creator/AnthonyBoucher (1951)
* "Literature/TheWarInTheAir" by Creator/RVCassill (1952)
* "Literature/TheUglyLittleBoy" by Creator/IsaacAsimov (1958)
[[/index]]
* (epilogue "My Private World of Science Fiction" by Creator/AlfredBester)
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!!Examples of Tropes in the Anthology:
* TheAnnotatedEdition: Each story has a foreword added by their author to explain their inclusion in this {{Anthology}}. The authors explain [[CreatorsFavorite what makes this story their favourite]].
* {{Anthology}}: Fifteen stories from amazing ScienceFiction writers. The overarching theme of which is CreatorsFavorite.
* BackFromTheDead: "Literature/AWorkOfArt", by Creator/JamesBlish, features "mind-sculpting", where people long-dead can be brought back to life. Two sculptors recreate Creator/RichardStrauss (composer of ''Music/AlsoSprachZarathustra''), in the hope that he might be able to create new masterpieces.
* CurseOfBabel: "Literature/BabelII", by Creator/DamonKnight, ends with the realization that a dimension-traveling alien accidently eliminated humankind's capacity for language.
* EpistolaryNovel: "Literature/TheFirstMen", by Creator/HowardFast, is told mostly by letters (and one telegram) between Harry Felton and his married sister, Jean Arbalaid. The last letter is set in a FramingDevice of a conversation between Harry and Eggerton, the US Secretary of Defense.
* FramingDevice: "Literature/TheFirstMen", by Creator/HowardFast, is told [[EpistolaryNovel mostly by letters]] between Harry Felton and his married sister, Jean Arbalaid. However, the last letter isn't read until Harry and Eggerton, the US Secretary of Defense, are having a conversation. This conversation matches the condition of the last letter Jean wrote him, so Harry reads it to the Secretary.
* HollywoodMirage: "Literature/AMiracleOfRareDevice", by Creator/RayBradbury, is about a "permanent" mirage of a large city in the middle of a desert. The characters debate over commercializing it and sponsoring tours to the mirage.
* JustOneSecondOutOfSync: "Literature/TheFirstMen", by Creator/HowardFast, has a forest that is suddenly replaced by a strange mist. A letter from the future explains that this mist is from the people inside having moved the forest less than a millisecond into the future.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: "Literature/BabelII", by Creator/DamonKnight, is named in reference to the biblical TowerOfBabel. A dimension-traveling alien accidently [[CurseOfBabel eliminates humankind's capacity for language]].
* MechanicalHorse: "Literature/TheQuestForSaintAquin", by Creator/AnthonyBoucher, had the priest protagonist using an artificially intelligent "robass", whose atheism was an important plot element.
* MessageInABottle: "Literature/ASaucerOfLoneliness", by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon, is about a woman who gets visited by a flying saucer. Naturally, she gets interrogated by many, including the military. She starts randomly throwing bottles with messages into the sea, until the narrator confronts her. It turns out the saucer was a high-tech version of the bottle.
* MostWritersAreWriters: "Literature/EveningPrimrose", by Creator/JohnCollier, is told from the perspective of a tired poet who is trying to find somewhere to write in peace.
* PsychicLink: "Literature/TheFirstMen", by Creator/HowardFast, has a small group of children who have learned how to initiate telepathic links. They slowly induct every child in the program into the link, and become smarter than the adults taking care of them.
* PsychicPowers: In "Literature/NightPiece", by Creator/PoulAnderson, the protagonist has been working on developing Extra-sensory Perception. Unfortunately, these powers make him aware of the "Superiors" who exist in a different version of our world.
* RaisedCatholic: "Literature/MementoHomo", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr, is about the death of protagonist Donegal. He doesn't really care about last rites being conducted by the priest his wife has convinced to visit him on his deathbed, instead waiting to hear the lift-off of a nearby spacecraft and [[{{Taps}} a single trumpet player saying good-bye to the shuttle]].
* ReligiousRobot: "Literature/TheQuestForSaintAquin", by Creator/AnthonyBoucher, is a 1951 {{novelette}} set in a post-nuclear world where Christians are persecuted. A priest sets forth on an [[MechanicalHorse artificially created and intelligent "robass"]] (which happens to be an atheist) searching for the legendary Saint Aquin, who turns out to be an android who is a perfect theologian, able to convert unbelievers with his flawless proofs for the Faith.
* {{Taps}}: "Literature/MementoHomo", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr, is about the death of protagonist Donegal. He holds onto life long enough to hear the launch of a spacecraft and then the sound of a single trumpet player playing the song to say good-bye to the shuttle.
* WainscotSociety: "Literature/EveningPrimrose", by Creator/JohnCollier, has the main character discover a secret society of people who live inside department stores and pose as mannequins. They must avoid the attention of the night watchman to keep their secret, but one of their members has fallen in love with him, risking the end of the {{Masquerade}}.
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!!Works in the Anthology:
[[index]]
* "Literature/TheFirstMen" by Creator/HowardFast (1960)
* "Literature/AWorkOfArt" by Creator/JamesBlish (1956)
* "Literature/EveningPrimrose" by Creator/JohnCollier (1940)
* "Literature/MementoHomo" by Creator/WalterMMillerJr. (1954)
* "Literature/AMiracleOfRareDevice" by Creator/RayBradbury (1962)
* "Literature/AllYouZombies" by Creator/RobertAHeinlein (1959)
* "{{Literature/Faq}}'" by GeorgePElliott (1952)
* "Literature/BabelII" by Creator/DamonKnight (1953)
* "Literature/ASaucerOfLoneliness" by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon (1953)
* "Literature/NightPiece" by Creator/PoulAnderson (1961)
* "Literature/NowLetUsSleep" by Creator/AvramDavidson (1957)
* "Literature/TheStrangeGirl" by Creator/MarkVanDoren (1962)
* "Literature/TheQuestForSaintAquin" by Creator/AnthonyBoucher (1951)
* "Literature/TheWarInTheAir" by Creator/RVCassill (1952)
* "Literature/TheUglyLittleBoy" by Creator/IsaacAsimov (1958)
[[/index]]
* (epilogue "My Private World of Science Fiction" by Creator/AlfredBester)
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!!Examples of Tropes in the Anthology:
* TheAnnotatedEdition: Each story has a foreword added by their author to explain their inclusion in this {{Anthology}}. The authors explain [[CreatorsFavorite what makes this story their favourite]].
* {{Anthology}}: Fifteen stories from amazing ScienceFiction writers. The overarching theme of which is CreatorsFavorite.
* BackFromTheDead: "Literature/AWorkOfArt", by Creator/JamesBlish, features "mind-sculpting", where people long-dead can be brought back to life. Two sculptors recreate Creator/RichardStrauss (composer of ''Music/AlsoSprachZarathustra''), in the hope that he might be able to create new masterpieces.
* CurseOfBabel: "Literature/BabelII", by Creator/DamonKnight, ends with the realization that a dimension-traveling alien accidently eliminated humankind's capacity for language.
* EpistolaryNovel: "Literature/TheFirstMen", by Creator/HowardFast, is told mostly by letters (and one telegram) between Harry Felton and his married sister, Jean Arbalaid. The last letter is set in a FramingDevice of a conversation between Harry and Eggerton, the US Secretary of Defense.
* FramingDevice: "Literature/TheFirstMen", by Creator/HowardFast, is told [[EpistolaryNovel mostly by letters]] between Harry Felton and his married sister, Jean Arbalaid. However, the last letter isn't read until Harry and Eggerton, the US Secretary of Defense, are having a conversation. This conversation matches the condition of the last letter Jean wrote him, so Harry reads it to the Secretary.
* HollywoodMirage: "Literature/AMiracleOfRareDevice", by Creator/RayBradbury, is about a "permanent" mirage of a large city in the middle of a desert. The characters debate over commercializing it and sponsoring tours to the mirage.
* JustOneSecondOutOfSync: "Literature/TheFirstMen", by Creator/HowardFast, has a forest that is suddenly replaced by a strange mist. A letter from the future explains that this mist is from the people inside having moved the forest less than a millisecond into the future.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: "Literature/BabelII", by Creator/DamonKnight, is named in reference to the biblical TowerOfBabel. A dimension-traveling alien accidently [[CurseOfBabel eliminates humankind's capacity for language]].
* MechanicalHorse: "Literature/TheQuestForSaintAquin", by Creator/AnthonyBoucher, had the priest protagonist using an artificially intelligent "robass", whose atheism was an important plot element.
* MessageInABottle: "Literature/ASaucerOfLoneliness", by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon, is about a woman who gets visited by a flying saucer. Naturally, she gets interrogated by many, including the military. She starts randomly throwing bottles with messages into the sea, until the narrator confronts her. It turns out the saucer was a high-tech version of the bottle.
* MostWritersAreWriters: "Literature/EveningPrimrose", by Creator/JohnCollier, is told from the perspective of a tired poet who is trying to find somewhere to write in peace.
* PsychicLink: "Literature/TheFirstMen", by Creator/HowardFast, has a small group of children who have learned how to initiate telepathic links. They slowly induct every child in the program into the link, and become smarter than the adults taking care of them.
* PsychicPowers: In "Literature/NightPiece", by Creator/PoulAnderson, the protagonist has been working on developing Extra-sensory Perception. Unfortunately, these powers make him aware of the "Superiors" who exist in a different version of our world.
* RaisedCatholic: "Literature/MementoHomo", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr, is about the death of protagonist Donegal. He doesn't really care about last rites being conducted by the priest his wife has convinced to visit him on his deathbed, instead waiting to hear the lift-off of a nearby spacecraft and [[{{Taps}} a single trumpet player saying good-bye to the shuttle]].
* ReligiousRobot: "Literature/TheQuestForSaintAquin", by Creator/AnthonyBoucher, is a 1951 {{novelette}} set in a post-nuclear world where Christians are persecuted. A priest sets forth on an [[MechanicalHorse artificially created and intelligent "robass"]] (which happens to be an atheist) searching for the legendary Saint Aquin, who turns out to be an android who is a perfect theologian, able to convert unbelievers with his flawless proofs for the Faith.
* {{Taps}}: "Literature/MementoHomo", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr, is about the death of protagonist Donegal. He holds onto life long enough to hear the launch of a spacecraft and then the sound of a single trumpet player playing the song to say good-bye to the shuttle.
* WainscotSociety: "Literature/EveningPrimrose", by Creator/JohnCollier, has the main character discover a secret society of people who live inside department stores and pose as mannequins. They must avoid the attention of the night watchman to keep their secret, but one of their members has fallen in love with him, risking the end of the {{Masquerade}}.
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!!Works in the Anthology:
[[index]]
* "Literature/TheFirstMen" by Creator/HowardFast (1960)
* "Literature/AWorkOfArt" by Creator/JamesBlish (1956)
* "Literature/EveningPrimrose" by Creator/JohnCollier (1940)
* "Literature/MementoHomo" by Creator/WalterMMillerJr. (1954)
* "Literature/AMiracleOfRareDevice" by Creator/RayBradbury (1962)
* "Literature/AllYouZombies" by Creator/RobertAHeinlein (1959)
* "{{Literature/Faq}}'" by GeorgePElliott (1952)
* "Literature/BabelII" by Creator/DamonKnight (1953)
* "Literature/ASaucerOfLoneliness" by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon (1953)
* "Literature/NightPiece" by Creator/PoulAnderson (1961)
* "Literature/NowLetUsSleep" by Creator/AvramDavidson (1957)
* "Literature/TheStrangeGirl" by Creator/MarkVanDoren (1962)
* "Literature/TheQuestForSaintAquin" by Creator/AnthonyBoucher (1951)
* "Literature/TheWarInTheAir" by Creator/RVCassill (1952)
* "Literature/TheUglyLittleBoy" by Creator/IsaacAsimov (1958)
[[/index]]
* (epilogue "My Private World
* The [[Literature/TheWorldsOfScienceFiction1963 1963]] anthology by
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!!Examples of Tropes in
* The [[Literature/TheWorldsOfScienceFiction1979 1979]] anthology by editors Creator/TheodoreWHipple and Creator/RobertGWright.
If a direct wick has led you here, please correct the
* TheAnnotatedEdition: Each story has a foreword added by their author to explain their inclusion in this {{Anthology}}. The authors explain [[CreatorsFavorite what makes this story their favourite]].
* {{Anthology}}: Fifteen stories from amazing ScienceFiction writers. The overarching theme of which is CreatorsFavorite.
* BackFromTheDead: "Literature/AWorkOfArt", by Creator/JamesBlish, features "mind-sculpting", where people long-dead can be brought back to life. Two sculptors recreate Creator/RichardStrauss (composer of ''Music/AlsoSprachZarathustra''), in the hope
* CurseOfBabel: "Literature/BabelII", by Creator/DamonKnight, ends with the realization that a dimension-traveling alien accidently eliminated humankind's capacity for language.
* EpistolaryNovel: "Literature/TheFirstMen", by Creator/HowardFast, is told mostly by letters (and one telegram) between Harry Felton and his married sister, Jean Arbalaid. The last letter is set in a FramingDevice of a conversation between Harry and Eggerton, the US Secretary of Defense.
* FramingDevice: "Literature/TheFirstMen", by Creator/HowardFast, is told [[EpistolaryNovel mostly by letters]] between Harry Felton and his married sister, Jean Arbalaid. However, the last letter isn't read until Harry and Eggerton, the US Secretary of Defense, are having a conversation. This conversation matches the condition of the last letter Jean wrote him, so Harry reads
* HollywoodMirage: "Literature/AMiracleOfRareDevice", by Creator/RayBradbury, is about a "permanent" mirage of a large city in the middle of a desert. The characters debate over commercializing it and sponsoring tours to the mirage.
* JustOneSecondOutOfSync: "Literature/TheFirstMen", by Creator/HowardFast, has a forest that is suddenly replaced by a strange mist. A letter from the future explains that this mist is from the people inside having moved the forest less than a millisecond into the future.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: "Literature/BabelII", by Creator/DamonKnight, is named in reference to the biblical TowerOfBabel. A dimension-traveling alien accidently [[CurseOfBabel eliminates humankind's capacity for language]].
* MechanicalHorse: "Literature/TheQuestForSaintAquin", by Creator/AnthonyBoucher, had the priest protagonist using an artificially intelligent "robass", whose atheism was an important plot element.
* MessageInABottle: "Literature/ASaucerOfLoneliness", by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon, is about a woman who gets visited by a flying saucer. Naturally, she gets interrogated by many, including the military. She starts randomly throwing bottles with messages into the sea, until the narrator confronts her. It turns out the saucer was a high-tech version of the bottle.
* MostWritersAreWriters: "Literature/EveningPrimrose", by Creator/JohnCollier, is told from the perspective of a tired poet who is trying to find somewhere to write in peace.
* PsychicLink: "Literature/TheFirstMen", by Creator/HowardFast, has a small group of children who have learned how to initiate telepathic links. They slowly induct every child in the program into the link, and become smarter than the adults taking care of them.
* PsychicPowers: In "Literature/NightPiece", by Creator/PoulAnderson, the protagonist has been working on developing Extra-sensory Perception. Unfortunately, these powers make him aware of the "Superiors" who exist in a different version of our world.
* RaisedCatholic: "Literature/MementoHomo", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr, is about the death of protagonist Donegal. He doesn't really care about last rites being conducted by the priest his wife has convinced to visit him on his deathbed, instead waiting to hear the lift-off of a nearby spacecraft and [[{{Taps}} a single trumpet player saying good-bye to the shuttle]].
* ReligiousRobot: "Literature/TheQuestForSaintAquin", by Creator/AnthonyBoucher, is a 1951 {{novelette}} set in a post-nuclear world where Christians are persecuted. A priest sets forth on an [[MechanicalHorse artificially created and intelligent "robass"]] (which happens to be an atheist) searching for the legendary Saint Aquin, who turns out to be an android who is a perfect theologian, able to convert unbelievers with his flawless proofs for the Faith.
* {{Taps}}: "Literature/MementoHomo", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr, is about the death of protagonist Donegal. He holds onto life long enough to hear the launch of a spacecraft and then the sound of a single trumpet player playing the song to say good-bye to the shuttle.
* WainscotSociety: "Literature/EveningPrimrose", by Creator/JohnCollier, has the main character discover a secret society of people who live inside department stores and pose as mannequins. They must avoid the attention of the night watchman to keep their secret, but one of their members has fallen in love with him, risking the end of the {{Masquerade}}.
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First published in 1963, this book is an {{Anthology}} of ScienceFiction stories edited by Creator/RobertPMills. Each story [[TheAnnotatedEdition contains a foreword]] by its respective author who explains why that story [[CreatorsFavorite is one of their favourites]]. The selection of story types is intentionally broad to showcase the "many different worlds" that Science Fiction can lead to.
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!!Works in the Anthology:
[[index]]
* "Literature/TheFirstMen" by Creator/HowardFast (1960)
* "Literature/AWorkOfArt" by Creator/JamesBlish (1956)
* "Literature/EveningPrimrose" by Creator/JohnCollier (1940)
* "Literature/MementoHomo" by Creator/WalterMMillerJr. (1954)
* "Literature/AMiracleOfRareDevice" by Creator/RayBradbury (1962)
* "Literature/AllYouZombies" by Creator/RobertAHeinlein (1959)
* "{{Literature/Faq}}'" by GeorgePElliott (1952)
* "Literature/BabelII" by Creator/DamonKnight (1953)
* "Literature/ASaucerOfLoneliness" by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon (1953)
* "Literature/NightPiece" by Creator/PoulAnderson (1961)
* "Literature/NowLetUsSleep" by Creator/AvramDavidson (1957)
* "Literature/TheStrangeGirl" by Creator/MarkVanDoren (1962)
* "Literature/TheQuestForSaintAquin" by Creator/AnthonyBoucher (1951)
* "Literature/TheWarInTheAir" by Creator/RVCassill (1952)
* "Literature/TheUglyLittleBoy" by Creator/IsaacAsimov (1958)
[[/index]]
* (epilogue "My Private World of Science Fiction" by Creator/AlfredBester)
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!!Examples of Tropes in the Anthology:
* TheAnnotatedEdition: Each story has a foreword added by their author to explain their inclusion in this {{Anthology}}. The authors explain [[CreatorsFavorite what makes this story their favourite]].
* {{Anthology}}: Fifteen stories from amazing ScienceFiction writers. The overarching theme of which is CreatorsFavorite.
* BackFromTheDead: "Literature/AWorkOfArt", by Creator/JamesBlish, features "mind-sculpting", where people long-dead can be brought back to life. Two sculptors recreate Creator/RichardStrauss (composer of ''Music/AlsoSprachZarathustra''), in the hope that he might be able to create new masterpieces.
* CurseOfBabel: "Literature/BabelII", by Creator/DamonKnight, ends with the realization that a dimension-traveling alien accidently eliminated humankind's capacity for language.
* EpistolaryNovel: "Literature/TheFirstMen", by Creator/HowardFast, is told mostly by letters (and one telegram) between Harry Felton and his married sister, Jean Arbalaid. The last letter is set in a FramingDevice of a conversation between Harry and Eggerton, the US Secretary of Defense.
* FramingDevice: "Literature/TheFirstMen", by Creator/HowardFast, is told [[EpistolaryNovel mostly by letters]] between Harry Felton and his married sister, Jean Arbalaid. However, the last letter isn't read until Harry and Eggerton, the US Secretary of Defense, are having a conversation. This conversation matches the condition of the last letter Jean wrote him, so Harry reads it to the Secretary.
* HollywoodMirage: "Literature/AMiracleOfRareDevice", by Creator/RayBradbury, is about a "permanent" mirage of a large city in the middle of a desert. The characters debate over commercializing it and sponsoring tours to the mirage.
* JustOneSecondOutOfSync: "Literature/TheFirstMen", by Creator/HowardFast, has a forest that is suddenly replaced by a strange mist. A letter from the future explains that this mist is from the people inside having moved the forest less than a millisecond into the future.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: "Literature/BabelII", by Creator/DamonKnight, is named in reference to the biblical TowerOfBabel. A dimension-traveling alien accidently [[CurseOfBabel eliminates humankind's capacity for language]].
* MechanicalHorse: "Literature/TheQuestForSaintAquin", by Creator/AnthonyBoucher, had the priest protagonist using an artificially intelligent "robass", whose atheism was an important plot element.
* MessageInABottle: "Literature/ASaucerOfLoneliness", by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon, is about a woman who gets visited by a flying saucer. Naturally, she gets interrogated by many, including the military. She starts randomly throwing bottles with messages into the sea, until the narrator confronts her. It turns out the saucer was a high-tech version of the bottle.
* MostWritersAreWriters: "Literature/EveningPrimrose", by Creator/JohnCollier, is told from the perspective of a tired poet who is trying to find somewhere to write in peace.
* PsychicLink: "Literature/TheFirstMen", by Creator/HowardFast, has a small group of children who have learned how to initiate telepathic links. They slowly induct every child in the program into the link, and become smarter than the adults taking care of them.
* PsychicPowers: In "Literature/NightPiece", by Creator/PoulAnderson, the protagonist has been working on developing Extra-sensory Perception. Unfortunately, these powers make him aware of the "Superiors" who exist in a different version of our world.
* RaisedCatholic: "Literature/MementoHomo", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr, is about the death of protagonist Donegal. He doesn't really care about last rites being conducted by the priest his wife has convinced to visit him on his deathbed, instead waiting to hear the lift-off of a nearby spacecraft and [[{{Taps}} a single trumpet player saying good-bye to the shuttle]].
* ReligiousRobot: "Literature/TheQuestForSaintAquin", by Creator/AnthonyBoucher, is a 1951 {{novelette}} set in a post-nuclear world where Christians are persecuted. A priest sets forth on an [[MechanicalHorse artificially created and intelligent "robass"]] (which happens to be an atheist) searching for the legendary Saint Aquin, who turns out to be an android who is a perfect theologian, able to convert unbelievers with his flawless proofs for the Faith.
* {{Taps}}: "Literature/MementoHomo", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr, is about the death of protagonist Donegal. He holds onto life long enough to hear the launch of a spacecraft and then the sound of a single trumpet player playing the song to say good-bye to the shuttle.
* WainscotSociety: "Literature/EveningPrimrose", by Creator/JohnCollier, has the main character discover a secret society of people who live inside department stores and pose as mannequins. They must avoid the attention of the night watchman to keep their secret, but one of their members has fallen in love with him, risking the end of the {{Masquerade}}.
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!!Works in the Anthology:
[[index]]
* "Literature/TheFirstMen" by Creator/HowardFast (1960)
* "Literature/AWorkOfArt" by Creator/JamesBlish (1956)
* "Literature/EveningPrimrose" by Creator/JohnCollier (1940)
* "Literature/MementoHomo" by Creator/WalterMMillerJr. (1954)
* "Literature/AMiracleOfRareDevice" by Creator/RayBradbury (1962)
* "Literature/AllYouZombies" by Creator/RobertAHeinlein (1959)
* "{{Literature/Faq}}'" by GeorgePElliott (1952)
* "Literature/BabelII" by Creator/DamonKnight (1953)
* "Literature/ASaucerOfLoneliness" by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon (1953)
* "Literature/NightPiece" by Creator/PoulAnderson (1961)
* "Literature/NowLetUsSleep" by Creator/AvramDavidson (1957)
* "Literature/TheStrangeGirl" by Creator/MarkVanDoren (1962)
* "Literature/TheQuestForSaintAquin" by Creator/AnthonyBoucher (1951)
* "Literature/TheWarInTheAir" by Creator/RVCassill (1952)
* "Literature/TheUglyLittleBoy" by Creator/IsaacAsimov (1958)
[[/index]]
* (epilogue "My Private World of Science Fiction" by Creator/AlfredBester)
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!!Examples of Tropes in the Anthology:
* TheAnnotatedEdition: Each story has a foreword added by their author to explain their inclusion in this {{Anthology}}. The authors explain [[CreatorsFavorite what makes this story their favourite]].
* {{Anthology}}: Fifteen stories from amazing ScienceFiction writers. The overarching theme of which is CreatorsFavorite.
* BackFromTheDead: "Literature/AWorkOfArt", by Creator/JamesBlish, features "mind-sculpting", where people long-dead can be brought back to life. Two sculptors recreate Creator/RichardStrauss (composer of ''Music/AlsoSprachZarathustra''), in the hope that he might be able to create new masterpieces.
* CurseOfBabel: "Literature/BabelII", by Creator/DamonKnight, ends with the realization that a dimension-traveling alien accidently eliminated humankind's capacity for language.
* EpistolaryNovel: "Literature/TheFirstMen", by Creator/HowardFast, is told mostly by letters (and one telegram) between Harry Felton and his married sister, Jean Arbalaid. The last letter is set in a FramingDevice of a conversation between Harry and Eggerton, the US Secretary of Defense.
* FramingDevice: "Literature/TheFirstMen", by Creator/HowardFast, is told [[EpistolaryNovel mostly by letters]] between Harry Felton and his married sister, Jean Arbalaid. However, the last letter isn't read until Harry and Eggerton, the US Secretary of Defense, are having a conversation. This conversation matches the condition of the last letter Jean wrote him, so Harry reads it to the Secretary.
* HollywoodMirage: "Literature/AMiracleOfRareDevice", by Creator/RayBradbury, is about a "permanent" mirage of a large city in the middle of a desert. The characters debate over commercializing it and sponsoring tours to the mirage.
* JustOneSecondOutOfSync: "Literature/TheFirstMen", by Creator/HowardFast, has a forest that is suddenly replaced by a strange mist. A letter from the future explains that this mist is from the people inside having moved the forest less than a millisecond into the future.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: "Literature/BabelII", by Creator/DamonKnight, is named in reference to the biblical TowerOfBabel. A dimension-traveling alien accidently [[CurseOfBabel eliminates humankind's capacity for language]].
* MechanicalHorse: "Literature/TheQuestForSaintAquin", by Creator/AnthonyBoucher, had the priest protagonist using an artificially intelligent "robass", whose atheism was an important plot element.
* MessageInABottle: "Literature/ASaucerOfLoneliness", by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon, is about a woman who gets visited by a flying saucer. Naturally, she gets interrogated by many, including the military. She starts randomly throwing bottles with messages into the sea, until the narrator confronts her. It turns out the saucer was a high-tech version of the bottle.
* MostWritersAreWriters: "Literature/EveningPrimrose", by Creator/JohnCollier, is told from the perspective of a tired poet who is trying to find somewhere to write in peace.
* PsychicLink: "Literature/TheFirstMen", by Creator/HowardFast, has a small group of children who have learned how to initiate telepathic links. They slowly induct every child in the program into the link, and become smarter than the adults taking care of them.
* PsychicPowers: In "Literature/NightPiece", by Creator/PoulAnderson, the protagonist has been working on developing Extra-sensory Perception. Unfortunately, these powers make him aware of the "Superiors" who exist in a different version of our world.
* RaisedCatholic: "Literature/MementoHomo", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr, is about the death of protagonist Donegal. He doesn't really care about last rites being conducted by the priest his wife has convinced to visit him on his deathbed, instead waiting to hear the lift-off of a nearby spacecraft and [[{{Taps}} a single trumpet player saying good-bye to the shuttle]].
* ReligiousRobot: "Literature/TheQuestForSaintAquin", by Creator/AnthonyBoucher, is a 1951 {{novelette}} set in a post-nuclear world where Christians are persecuted. A priest sets forth on an [[MechanicalHorse artificially created and intelligent "robass"]] (which happens to be an atheist) searching for the legendary Saint Aquin, who turns out to be an android who is a perfect theologian, able to convert unbelievers with his flawless proofs for the Faith.
* {{Taps}}: "Literature/MementoHomo", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr, is about the death of protagonist Donegal. He holds onto life long enough to hear the launch of a spacecraft and then the sound of a single trumpet player playing the song to say good-bye to the shuttle.
* WainscotSociety: "Literature/EveningPrimrose", by Creator/JohnCollier, has the main character discover a secret society of people who live inside department stores and pose as mannequins. They must avoid the attention of the night watchman to keep their secret, but one of their members has fallen in love with him, risking the end of the {{Masquerade}}.
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