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Cats in Space...and Other Places by David Drake, S.M. Stirling, C.J. Cherryh, Greg Bear, P.J. Beese, Cordwainer Smith, Ursula K. Le Guin, Judith R. Conly, Todd Hamilton, Fredric Brown, Fritz Leiber, Bill Fawcett, A.E. van Vogt, Arthur C. Clarke, M.J. Engh, Anne McCaffrey, Robert A. Heinlein, Jody Lynn Nye
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adventurous
challenging
hopeful
5.0
I see why you can't find a reasonably priced copy of this book anywhere. Fantastic collection from the greats in the Golden Age of Science Fiction - McCaffrey, Clarke, Nye, Heinlein, and others I didn't know but will be looking them up! I DNF'd 2 stories, and found one to be confusing, but the rest were an absolute delight. Generally hopeful, as this subgenre generally is. One got annoyingly philosophical 😅 but most were just a grand adventure, some quite tense planet-side or ship-side danger, and several were pretty funny. Ended with a real banger!
Several did a masterful job of developing alien races and cultures, creative "space jobs", and one (Well Worth the Money) was a fun new AI take. I was excited to see another brainship story from McCaffrey; not her best one but I can't get enough of those.
Bullhead was an oddball; very little sci-fi and more black magic fantasy in a wild west/pioneer setting. It also... barely mentioned a cat being around. So this one was a pretty weird inclusion for this anthology.
Alas, there were several typo errors in this library ebook that I suspect are due to poor OCR of the original.
Definitely read this if you like classic sci fi and get the chance. I'm not planning to spend the hundred-plus dollars on a hard copy, but I'm definitely going to keep watching the market and hopefully get this for my personal library some day.
Several did a masterful job of developing alien races and cultures, creative "space jobs", and one (Well Worth the Money) was a fun new AI take. I was excited to see another brainship story from McCaffrey; not her best one but I can't get enough of those.
Bullhead was an oddball; very little sci-fi and more black magic fantasy in a wild west/pioneer setting. It also... barely mentioned a cat being around. So this one was a pretty weird inclusion for this anthology.
Alas, there were several typo errors in this library ebook that I suspect are due to poor OCR of the original.
Definitely read this if you like classic sci fi and get the chance. I'm not planning to spend the hundred-plus dollars on a hard copy, but I'm definitely going to keep watching the market and hopefully get this for my personal library some day.
Graphic: Pregnancy, Classism, Panic attacks/disorders, Infidelity, Child abuse, and Mental illness
Moderate: Blood, Drug use, Racial slurs, War, Sexual content, Ableism, Death, and Gore
Minor: Addiction
Bullhead gives off serious black magic-y vibes. Several n-words. Sexual content in the form of a closed-door affair and non-explicit description ofOrdeal in Space - PTSD/agorophobia, heavy focus on its experience
Space-Time for Springers has a "retarded" daughter in the family.
Black Destroyer is more graphic than usual for that era, with the monster basically liquifying bodies after a quick gory death.
The Pride contains childbirth, described with blood and umbilical cord. Also attempted murder, the perpetrator being immediately attacked and killed with a sword, though several of these stories contain similar content.
The Ballad of Lost C'Mell has a godlike figure and brief possession by such.
The Man Who Would Be Kzin has just enough womanizing to give you an intentional distaste for the MC, and an implied three-way, though it can't get much vaguer. A race is described as having a subass of citizens with an addiction that confers tactical benefits, as well as societal derision.
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