Best feature is finding more authors, titles. Mostly tragic, so funny preferred. Gentle Earth's harsh weather - hurricane, flood, volcano, snow - conquers alien troops who slow down in the cold. Leinster's Aliens turn disastrous first contact with Plumies into happy-ever-after. Poul Anderson's Turni

One of the best SF anthologies I’ve read (and I have a shelf full of classics), this one is unique in that it doesn’t attempt to define the “best” or most famous stories, but instead focuses on the authors and stories that had the biggest impact on the editors in their youth. Given the success of Dr

I've decided that, from now on, I won't try to review the contents of an anthology; rather, I'll review the editors.

In this case, the editors are Jim Baen, Eric Flint and David Drake, who came together to assemble a collection of SF stories that wowed them in their teens -- wowed them to the point t

CONTENTS

▪️"Rescue Party" - Arthur C. Clarke (Astounding Science Fiction, May 1946)
▪️"The Menace from Earth" - Robert A. Heinlein (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August, 1957)
▪️"Code Three" - Rick Raphael (Analog, February, 1963)
▪️"Hunting Problem" - Robert Sheckley (Galaxy, September,

I enjoyed this anthology. I thought I had read all of it previously, but I think I must have read most of it (as some of the stories were completely unfamiliar to me). As the blur says, it is composed of the stories that had the greatest impact upon the lives of the three editors when they were teen

ENGLISH: My second reading of this excellent collection of 29 SF stories, by 29 different authors. The seven I have liked most have been the following:
- The menace from Earth by Robert Heinlein
- Black destroyer by A.E.van Vogt
- The aliens by Murray Leinster
- The cold equations by Tom Godwin
- Turnin