The First Time Out

a decade of some of the most skilfully chosen fiction anywhere, these stories are all well above the median for excellence, and run a fine gamut from wildly comic fantasy like Bruce Jay Friedman’s A Foot in the Door through literate whimsies like Bernard Wolfe’s The Never Ending Penny to strange, timeless and powerful tales like J. G. Ballard’s Souvenir.

I like, too, the admixture of sfs ‘in’ names, like Bradbury, Pohl, Beaumont, Sheckley, and so on, with writers better known in other fields, like Hugh W. Nissenson, who covered the Eichmann trial for Commentary (his offering is a fine job, by the way), Ken Purdy, and Leland Webb.

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a decade of some of the most skilfully chosen fiction anywhere, these stories are all well above the median for excellence, and run a fine gamut from wildly comic fantasy like Bruce Jay Friedman’s A Foot in the Door through literate whimsies like Bernard Wolfe’s The Never Ending Penny to strange, timeless and powerful tales like J. G. Ballard’s Souvenir.

I like, too, the admixture of sfs ‘in’ names, like Bradbury, Pohl, Beaumont, Sheckley, and so on, with writers better known in other fields, like Hugh W. Nissenson, who covered the Eichmann trial for Commentary (his offering is a fine job, by the way), Ken Purdy, and Leland Webb.