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Frontiers in Space, by E.F. Bleiler, tells the story of some of the first missions every started to outer-space and tells the exciting and risk-taking story of people who sacrificed their lives to go on these missions. The plot is very active, and the author did a very good job with descriptive words making you feel like you were actually in the story yourself. Overall I liked this book which is why I rated it 5 stars.
Looking at the roster of authors on this cover, you'd think it was amazing, especially when you examine further and see it's a 'best of' collection from three previous 'best ofs'.. 1951-1953.The stories aren't just short though, most are microscopic... under 10 pages. While there are some fun concepts, like the first contact in 'Star Ducks' or the classic 'Oddy and Id' (Which I've read in more than one other collection), quite a few are standard 50s fare... playing on fears of nuclear war with t...
Reading science fiction written before I was born is always weird. Things written that were fantastic concepts at the time and are now, almost silly.One of the stories features trees that have learned atomic warfare. This makes me very sad.I think the hardest part of reading old stories like these, is the humanity part. Reading about how non-whites are treated as less than a person, how women are inferior and weak in every way. And how humans will burn the planet just to get rid of those who are...
14 selections from THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES 51,52, 53. An eclectic bunch with 3 having themes of post nuclear war. Probably the bravest is DARK INTERLUDE by Frederic Brown and Mack Reynolds about a time traveler from the future who marries a backwoods southern woman and is later killed by her brother as he has mixed blood in a post racial future. Many are standard short stories which use the future or space flight to encompass human stories which could be set in any environment.
