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* TheMilkyWayIsTheOnlyWay: In "Literature/TheStarPit", a
{{Novella}} by Creator/SamuelRDelany, only people with a specific set of psychological issues can handle going outside the galaxy, even though interstellar travel is ridiculously convenient.
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* TheMilkyWayIsTheOnlyWay: In "Literature/TheStarPit", a
a {{Novella}} by Creator/SamuelRDelany, only people with a specific set of psychological issues can handle going outside the galaxy, even though interstellar travel is ridiculously convenient.
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First published in 1980 under the title ''The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels'', this GenreAnthology was edited by Creator/RobertSilverberg and Creator/MartinHGreenberg. It was [[OrwellianRetcon republished under the title]] ''Worlds Imagined'' in 1989 because William Morrow & Company purchased Arbor House the year before and they wanted to sell copies under their Avenel Books imprint.
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!!Fifteen {{Novella}}s and {{Novelette}}s have been reprinted in ''Worlds Imagined'':
[[index]]
* "Literature/BeyondBedlam" by Creator/WymanGuin (1951)
* "{{Literature/Equinoctial}}" by Creator/JohnVarley (1977)
* "Literature/ByHisBootstraps" by Creator/RobertAHeinlein (1941)
* "Literature/TheGoldenHelix" by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon (1954)
* "Literature/BornWithTheDead" by Creator/RobertSilverberg (1974)
* "Literature/SecondGame" by Creator/KatherineMacLean and Creator/CharlesVDeVet (1958)
* "Literature/TheDeadPast" by Creator/IsaacAsimov (1956)
* "Literature/TheRoadToTheSea" by Creator/ArthurCClarke (1951)
* "Literature/TheStarPit" by Creator/SamuelRDelany (1967)
* "Literature/GiantKiller" by Creator/ABertramChandler (1945)
* "Literature/ACaseOfConscience" by Creator/JamesBlish (1953)
* "{{Literature/Dio}}" by Creator/DamonKnight (1957)
* "Literature/HoustonHoustonDoYouRead" by Creator/JamesTiptreeJr (1976)
* "Literature/OnTheStormPlanet" by Creator/CordwinerSmith (1965)
* "Literature/TheMiracleWorkers" by Creator/JackVance (1958)
[[/index]]
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!!Tropes appearing in this anthology:
* AmbiguousInnocence: In ''Literature/ACaseOfConscience'', a Jesuit Priest is part of the team that establishes contact with the first known sapient extraterrestrials. They have a working civilization, but no religion; they are completely without any concept of {{God}}, an afterlife, or the idea of sin. The story ambiguously suggests that they were created by {{Satan}}.
* {{Doorstopper}}: This {{Anthology}} has just over 700 pages because all fourteen stories are actually short novels, classified as {{Novelette}}s or {{Novella}}s. (Adding in "Literature/TheMiracleWorkers" would mean an additional 64 pages, halfway to eight hundred.)
* GenreAnthology: In addition to being focused on ScienceFiction, the stories in this anthology are all at least {{Novelette}} size in length.
* HurlItIntoTheSun: In "Literature/GiantKiller", a {{Novella}} by Creator/ABertramChandler, the setting is an enormous spaceship populated by "The People" and "The Giants". When "The People" become a serious menace to "The Giants", and voiding the air of the ship doesn't kill ''all'' of them, the last surviving "Giant" sends the ship into a star.
* TheMilkyWayIsTheOnlyWay: In "Literature/TheStarPit", a
{{Novella}} by Creator/SamuelRDelany, only people with a specific set of psychological issues can handle going outside the galaxy, even though interstellar travel is ridiculously convenient.
* MinimalisticCoverArt: The original front cover features a plain blue background, white text for ''The Arbor House Treasury'' and the editor names, and lime green for ''of Great Science Fiction Short Novels''.
* MoustacheDePlume: Creator/JamesTiptreeJr is a PenName used by Creator/AliceSheldon for writing ScienceFiction. Having worked in the intelligence community, "his" publishers didn't know. She didn't voluntarily reveal her true identity, it was discovered by fans. Yes, that's right, SF fans are apparently better at ferreting out this kind of thing than actual spies.
* NakedOnArrival: "Literature/OnTheStormPlanet", a {{Novella}} by Creator/CordwainerSmith, has Casher O'Neill transported from Henriada to his homeworld of Mizzer by T'Ruth and gets badly sunburned, although his mental faculties recover more or less unimpaired.
* NoodleIncident: "Literature/OnTheStormPlanet" had a robot, rat and Copt, and the three rediscovered the "Old Strong Religion". What religion did they mean?
* OneWordTitle:
** "{{Literature/Equinoctial}}", a {{Novella}} by Creator/JohnVarley.
** "{{Literature/Dio}}", a {{Novelette}} by Creator/DamonKnight.
* OrwellianRetcon: William Morrow & Company had ''The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels'' reprinted under their Avenel Books imprint with the name ''Worlds Imagined'' to avoid the confusion of including multiple publishing company names. They also omitted "Literature/TheMiracleWorkers" in their version of the {{Anthology}}.
* SplitPersonality: "Literature/BeyondBedlam", a {{Novella}} by Creator/WymanGuin, depicts a society about 1000 years in TheFuture where everyone is "schizophrenic" (actually, possessed of two personalities; "schizophrenia" rather than "multiple personality disorder" being the accepted medical term in TheFifties) and each of the two personalities is allowed five days of life at a time, before being legally required to surrender the reins to the other personality.
* TomatoSurprise: In "Literature/GiantKiller", a {{Novella}} by Creator/ABertramChandler, the main characters call themselves "The People", but they can't be normal humans (among other things, one of the "hideously deformed mutants" whose names describe their mutations is called No-Tail), but knowing what and where they actually are [[spoiler:(sentient rats on a spaceship)]] causes a perspective shift that turns it into almost an entirely different story.
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!!Fifteen {{Novella}}s and {{Novelette}}s have been reprinted in ''Worlds Imagined'':
[[index]]
* "Literature/BeyondBedlam" by Creator/WymanGuin (1951)
* "{{Literature/Equinoctial}}" by Creator/JohnVarley (1977)
* "Literature/ByHisBootstraps" by Creator/RobertAHeinlein (1941)
* "Literature/TheGoldenHelix" by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon (1954)
* "Literature/BornWithTheDead" by Creator/RobertSilverberg (1974)
* "Literature/SecondGame" by Creator/KatherineMacLean and Creator/CharlesVDeVet (1958)
* "Literature/TheDeadPast" by Creator/IsaacAsimov (1956)
* "Literature/TheRoadToTheSea" by Creator/ArthurCClarke (1951)
* "Literature/TheStarPit" by Creator/SamuelRDelany (1967)
* "Literature/GiantKiller" by Creator/ABertramChandler (1945)
* "Literature/ACaseOfConscience" by Creator/JamesBlish (1953)
* "{{Literature/Dio}}" by Creator/DamonKnight (1957)
* "Literature/HoustonHoustonDoYouRead" by Creator/JamesTiptreeJr (1976)
* "Literature/OnTheStormPlanet" by Creator/CordwinerSmith (1965)
* "Literature/TheMiracleWorkers" by Creator/JackVance (1958)
[[/index]]
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!!Tropes appearing in this anthology:
* AmbiguousInnocence: In ''Literature/ACaseOfConscience'', a Jesuit Priest is part of the team that establishes contact with the first known sapient extraterrestrials. They have a working civilization, but no religion; they are completely without any concept of {{God}}, an afterlife, or the idea of sin. The story ambiguously suggests that they were created by {{Satan}}.
* {{Doorstopper}}: This {{Anthology}} has just over 700 pages because all fourteen stories are actually short novels, classified as {{Novelette}}s or {{Novella}}s. (Adding in "Literature/TheMiracleWorkers" would mean an additional 64 pages, halfway to eight hundred.)
* GenreAnthology: In addition to being focused on ScienceFiction, the stories in this anthology are all at least {{Novelette}} size in length.
* HurlItIntoTheSun: In "Literature/GiantKiller", a {{Novella}} by Creator/ABertramChandler, the setting is an enormous spaceship populated by "The People" and "The Giants". When "The People" become a serious menace to "The Giants", and voiding the air of the ship doesn't kill ''all'' of them, the last surviving "Giant" sends the ship into a star.
* TheMilkyWayIsTheOnlyWay: In "Literature/TheStarPit", a
{{Novella}} by Creator/SamuelRDelany, only people with a specific set of psychological issues can handle going outside the galaxy, even though interstellar travel is ridiculously convenient.
* MinimalisticCoverArt: The original front cover features a plain blue background, white text for ''The Arbor House Treasury'' and the editor names, and lime green for ''of Great Science Fiction Short Novels''.
* MoustacheDePlume: Creator/JamesTiptreeJr is a PenName used by Creator/AliceSheldon for writing ScienceFiction. Having worked in the intelligence community, "his" publishers didn't know. She didn't voluntarily reveal her true identity, it was discovered by fans. Yes, that's right, SF fans are apparently better at ferreting out this kind of thing than actual spies.
* NakedOnArrival: "Literature/OnTheStormPlanet", a {{Novella}} by Creator/CordwainerSmith, has Casher O'Neill transported from Henriada to his homeworld of Mizzer by T'Ruth and gets badly sunburned, although his mental faculties recover more or less unimpaired.
* NoodleIncident: "Literature/OnTheStormPlanet" had a robot, rat and Copt, and the three rediscovered the "Old Strong Religion". What religion did they mean?
* OneWordTitle:
** "{{Literature/Equinoctial}}", a {{Novella}} by Creator/JohnVarley.
** "{{Literature/Dio}}", a {{Novelette}} by Creator/DamonKnight.
* OrwellianRetcon: William Morrow & Company had ''The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels'' reprinted under their Avenel Books imprint with the name ''Worlds Imagined'' to avoid the confusion of including multiple publishing company names. They also omitted "Literature/TheMiracleWorkers" in their version of the {{Anthology}}.
* SplitPersonality: "Literature/BeyondBedlam", a {{Novella}} by Creator/WymanGuin, depicts a society about 1000 years in TheFuture where everyone is "schizophrenic" (actually, possessed of two personalities; "schizophrenia" rather than "multiple personality disorder" being the accepted medical term in TheFifties) and each of the two personalities is allowed five days of life at a time, before being legally required to surrender the reins to the other personality.
* TomatoSurprise: In "Literature/GiantKiller", a {{Novella}} by Creator/ABertramChandler, the main characters call themselves "The People", but they can't be normal humans (among other things, one of the "hideously deformed mutants" whose names describe their mutations is called No-Tail), but knowing what and where they actually are [[spoiler:(sentient rats on a spaceship)]] causes a perspective shift that turns it into almost an entirely different story.
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