New Dreams This Morning (1966)

Outstanding stories: Blish's "A work of art", Knight's "Country of the Kind", Kornbluth's "With these hands", Silverberg's "Man of Talent". ( )

This anthology is all science fiction stories about artists of some sort, usually the painting or poetry or musician kind. Of the latter, that story is perhaps the best, Pangborn's post-apocalyptic Music Master of Babylon. The second Blish story wasn't needed, either.

Fairly well chosen though, averaging over 3.50.

New Dreams This Morning : Dreaming Is a Private Thing - Isaac Asimov
New Dreams This Morning : A Work of Art [Art-Work] - James Blish
New Dreams This Morning : The Dark Night of the Soul [The Genius Heap] - James Blish
New Dreams This Morning : Portrait of the Artist - Harry Harrison
New Dreams This Morning : The Country of the Kind - Damon Knight
New Dreams This Morning : With These Hands - C. M. Kornbluth
New Dreams This Morning : The Music Master of Babylon - Edgar Pangborn
New Dreams This Morning : A Man of Talent [The Man with Talent] - Robert Silverberg

Entertainment youth recruiting.

3 out of 5

Composer impression.

4 out of 5

Painting colony brawl.

3 out of 5

Comic machine.

3 out of 5

Violent man gets odiferously ostracised.

4 out of 5

Starving artist inefficiencies.

3.5 out of 5

An elderly survivor of some nuking lives in a museum, and one day comes across a couple of primitive kids, nascent musicians.

4 out of 5

Only a poet.

4 out of 5

http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-dreams-this-morning-james-blish.html ( )