Young Extraterrestrials
by Isaac Asimov (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor), Charles G. Waugh (Editor)
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Eleven stories by well-known authors about youngsters who are aliens from space.Tags
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book when I first read it when I was young. In rereading it again as an adult, I'm even more impressed with how very good these stories are.
Some are better than others, of course, but even the stories that I can't quite call my favorites are very well written and quite worth the read. Most of the stories had lingered in my memory, but one passage in particular remained quite clear:
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My favorite stories from this anthology include: "Doorstep" by Keith Laumer, wherein the last line of the story is hinged the entire profound; "The Witness" by Eric Frank Russell, partly because of 'No! You don't mean to say they had minds of their own!'; "Primary Education of show more the Camiroi" by R.A. Lafferty, who obviously had entirely too much fun writing it; "Zoo" by Edward D. Hoch, with the classically-scifi application of ellipses to the ending; and "Subcommittee" by Zenna Henderson, for sheer vivid imagery and depth of underlying implications.
It hadn't struck me when I first read this book how old the stories were. I had taken them as modern 90s creations because I had first read them in the early 90s, but the anthology was printed in the early 80s and the stories themselves were first published in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. This means that these stories were selected for this anthology because they were the editors' best and favorite of all that fit with this anthology theme; they weren't written specifically to be printed in this anthology. I think it's given the quality of the anthology a heft it wouldn't have had otherwise. And I also want to track down the other five books in Asimov's Young anthology set and see if the stories in those books are as good as the stories in this one. show less
Some are better than others, of course, but even the stories that I can't quite call my favorites are very well written and quite worth the read. Most of the stories had lingered in my memory, but one passage in particular remained quite clear:
[passage moved off-site for more flexible HTML formatting]
My favorite stories from this anthology include: "Doorstep" by Keith Laumer, wherein the last line of the story is hinged the entire profound; "The Witness" by Eric Frank Russell, partly because of 'No! You don't mean to say they had minds of their own!'; "Primary Education of show more the Camiroi" by R.A. Lafferty, who obviously had entirely too much fun writing it; "Zoo" by Edward D. Hoch, with the classically-scifi application of ellipses to the ending; and "Subcommittee" by Zenna Henderson, for sheer vivid imagery and depth of underlying implications.
It hadn't struck me when I first read this book how old the stories were. I had taken them as modern 90s creations because I had first read them in the early 90s, but the anthology was printed in the early 80s and the stories themselves were first published in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. This means that these stories were selected for this anthology because they were the editors' best and favorite of all that fit with this anthology theme; they weren't written specifically to be printed in this anthology. I think it's given the quality of the anthology a heft it wouldn't have had otherwise. And I also want to track down the other five books in Asimov's Young anthology set and see if the stories in those books are as good as the stories in this one. show less
This book has the highest hit rate of authors I'd heard of , and the most affecting story was 'Subcommittee' by Zena Henderson - again not a People story, though they would most assuredly fit in this anthology. A rather surprising exclusion in my opinion was Doctor Asimov's own story 'Red', which would have been a perfect fit. None were bad though 'Lloyd Biggle Jr's 'Who's On First' was a bit too involved with baseball to really hold my attention.
Collection of short stories by a variety of authors about young extraterrestrial beings.
Contiene dieci storie di fantascienza con protagonisti dei giovani alieni... Molto rilassante e scorrevole.
Mar 21, 2011Italian
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Isaac Asimov was born in Petrovichi, Russia, on January 2, 1920. His family emigrated to the United States in 1923 and settled in Brooklyn, New York, where they owned and operated a candy store. Asimov became a naturalized U.S. citizen at the age of eight. As a youngster he discovered his talent for writing, producing his first original fiction at show more the age of eleven. He went on to become one of the world's most prolific writers, publishing nearly 500 books in his lifetime. Asimov was not only a writer; he also was a biochemist and an educator. He studied chemistry at Columbia University, earning a B.S., M.A. and Ph.D. In 1951, Asimov accepted a position as an instructor of biochemistry at Boston University's School of Medicine even though he had no practical experience in the field. His exceptional intelligence enabled him to master new systems rapidly, and he soon became a successful and distinguished professor at Columbia and even co-authored a biochemistry textbook within a few years. Asimov won numerous awards and honors for his books and stories, and he is considered to be a leading writer of the Golden Age of science fiction. While he did not invent science fiction, he helped to legitimize it by adding the narrative structure that had been missing from the traditional science fiction books of the period. He also introduced several innovative concepts, including the thematic concern for technological progress and its impact on humanity. Asimov is probably best known for his Foundation series, which includes Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation. In 1966, this trilogy won the Hugo award for best all-time science fiction series. In 1983, Asimov wrote an additional Foundation novel, Foundation's Edge, which won the Hugo for best novel of that year. Asimov also wrote a series of robot books that included I, Robot, and eventually he tied the two series together. He won three additional Hugos, including one awarded posthumously for the best non-fiction book of 1995, I. Asimov. "Nightfall" was chosen the best science fiction story of all time by the Science Fiction Writers of America. In 1979, Asimov wrote his autobiography, In Memory Yet Green. He continued writing until just a few years before his death from heart and kidney failure on April 6, 1992. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Charles Waugh is an associate professor of English at Utah State University and the editor and translator (with Nguyn Lien) of Family of Fallen Leaves: Stories of Agent Orange by Vietnamese Writers. Nguyn Lien was a writer, scholar, and teacher who translated many international works of literature into Vietnamese. Van Gi is the dean of the Faculty show more of Creative Writing at the University of Culture in Hanoi. show less
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- 1984
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- Variant Titles: Asimov's Extraterrestrials (0583309860) and Extraterrestrials (0694056286) with Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh
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- Fiction and Literature, Tween, Science Fiction, Teen, Young Adult, Kids
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- 823 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction
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- PZ5 .Y8515 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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