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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Very similar to reading Ray Bradbury and Philip K Dick - fun short stories, often predictable. I enjoyed the layout of this edition with introductions by Harry Harrison himself, separating the stories into different genres, and giving an incite into the mind of the author. I appreciated his acknowledgement of Capek inventing the term Robot. Initially I wanted to read Make Room! Make Room! as mentioned in Y The Last Man series, but the more I read, the more I enjoyed. I wish the stories had their original publication dates listed, but that's easily found elsewhere. Harrison's anti-military attitude was evident in some of the stories, Mau Mau being a particularly nasty military leader in American Dead; The Day After the End of the World ironically describes the last man and woman deciding they would teach their children peace and love on earth to all men, but only after they themselves retaliate by killing all the green men and blow their planet up! I was surprised how accurately Harrison described the shop clerk/shop assistant's encounters with the public in A Civil Service Servant - anyone who works for the public will empathise with that story. ( ) When I saw this book I thought "I didn't know that Harry Harrision wrote short stories" although most of this generation of writers began here. then when I opened the book and began to read it was like returning to old favourites, so many of these stories have I read and loved before. # The streets of ashkelon - where a priest arrives on a world that had never been exposed to religion of any kind Rescue operation - where an alien is rescues from the sea only to die because of the primitive conditions the repairman - ahh, a favourite - a large beacon has become a religious temple and a man has to repair it welcoming committee - this one was new to me heavy duty - another new one a criminal act - about a world where the population is very controled and to have a child you must reduce the population roommates - apparetnly they made a film of this called solient green - a world where everything is rationed due to overpopulation the pliable animal - you should remember to be diplomatic and not cross the main beliefs of were you are currently living after the storm this does not give a good indication of the stories, lets fact it the thing with short stories is that they are crafted to use a minimum of words so shortening them will not make sense. no reviews | add a review
Fifty stories for fifty years!A collection-and celebration-of the work of Harry Harrison From his first sale in 1950 on, Harry Harrison has been one of the science fiction world's creative dynamos, working in every subgenre of the field, always bursting with provocative ideas. Parodic one moment, serious the next, Harrison has been called by Brian Aldiss "one of the few authors capable of carrying the old vigor of earlier days forward into a new epoch." On the occasion of his fiftieth anniversary as a professional writer, Harrison has gathered together fifty of his best stories-one for each year-along with substantial notes and introductory material. 50 in 50 is at once a memoir, a compendium of an engaging body of work, and a look at the history of science fiction in the second half of the 20th century. No library descriptions found. |
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