Ackermanthology

by Ackerman, Forrest J.

• ISBN13: 9780918736253
• ISBN10: 0918736250
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Sense of Wonder Pr

Summary

When a man has read, written, edited, and lived science fiction for a full 70 years, as Forrest J Ackerman has, his collection of sci-fi shorts and semi-shorts is certain to contribute to the pleasure of the connoisseur, and more than delight the relative newcomer to modern literature's hottest field. Herein are timeless tales of aliens, robots, spacemen, future societies, extraordinary experiments, intergalactic love, dinosaurs, and other dimensions -- written with the humor, the horror, the suspense, and the denouements developed by the undisputed geniuses of the twist in the tale, from Bradbury, Wells, and Asimov to lesser-known masters of the trade. Ackerman's following is legion, and readers worldwide, old and new, will revel in every extraordinary page. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Aliens
I (Alone) Stand in a World of Legless Humans	p. 13
Under the Lavender Skies	p. 16
The Cat and the Canaries	p. 18
Eye of the Beholder	p. 20
Litter of the Law	p. 24
Traders in Treasures	p. 27
Pressure Cruise	p. 34
Alien Catastrophe	p. 36
Alternate Futures
The Tweenie	p. 41
Deathrace 2000	p. 59
Burroughs Pastiche
The Swordsmen of Varnis	p. 69
Cosmic Encounters
Starburst	p. 71
The Cosmic Kidnappers	p. 74
Cosmic Parallel	p. 75
The Sky's an Oyster; The Stars Are Pearls	p. 78
And Satan Came	p. 81
Experiments Perilous
Experiment	p. 85
Golden Nemesis	p. 89
Secret of the Sun	p. 96
Pallas Rebellion	p. 103
The Curious Experience of Thomas Dunbar	p. 106
A Scientist Rises	p. 116
Extrapolation Extraordinary
Homecoming	p. 123
Fourth Dimension
The Impossible Invention	p. 127
Futurama
The Smile	p. 139
The Far Way	p. 144
Parasite Lost	p. 155
Messenger to Infinity	p. 156
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi	p. 160
A Question of Priorities	p. 164
The Banning	p. 167
The Last Poet and the Wrongness of Space	p. 169
Let the Future Judge	p. 175
The Final Men	p. 178
Galactic
Navigational Error	p. 181
Devonshire's Song	p. 183
Mars
A Martian Oddity	p. 187
Love	p. 191
The Golden Pyramid	p. 197
O. Henryarns
The Biography Project	p. 201
I'll Kill You Tomorrow	p. 204
Police Action	p. 211
Where There's Hope	p. 213
The Queen and I	p. 218
Untimely Interruption	p. 222
Extenuating Circumstances	p. 223
Robot Chronicles
Punishment Fit the Crime	p. 227
To Serf MAN	p. 232
Theory or Fact?	p. 234
Sapphic Sci-Fi
Kiki	p. 237
Sociological
For the Good of Society	p. 241
Spacial Deliveries
Twice Removed	p. 245
Replacement Part	p. 248
Spicy Sci-Fi
The Satellite-Keeper's Daughter	p. 249
Nymph of Darkness	p. 255
Unclassifiable!
Itself!	p. 271
Big, Wide, Wonderful World	p. 275
The Door	p. 278
Racial Memory	p. 282
Tunnel	p. 283
Inferiority	p. 285
Task of the Temponaut	p. 289
Beauty	p. 291
The Shortest SF Story Ever Told	p. 298
WARmageddon: Final Victory	p. 299
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