Alpha 1

The first in a series of superb science fiction. Alpha is, aside from the first letter of the Greek alphabet, a term that de notes excellence and primacy in a variety of disciplines: in nuclear physic s, for example, it is the name of a particle of unusually large mass and ch arge. It seemed a useful label to attach to this volume, the first of an in tended series of collections of science fiction stories. The Alpha series of anthologies will center on no particular theme except t hat of literary quality. The presence in any one volume of a cluster of sto ries bearing other thematic resemblance--as in this volume, where there are four or five time-travel stories--will be purely coincidental. I propose t o cull the files of the science fiction magazines for stories that an educa ted and sophisticated reader will find stimulating, and to assemble them in books of roughly equal size that will appear once a year over the next few years. Some of the stories will be fifteen or twenty years old and richly in need of restoration to print. Others will be quite recent: the literary level of the science fiction short story has undergone an extraordinary tra nsformation in the past few years, a fact that demands recognition here. Appropriately enough, this first volume of the ALPHA series covers a roster of writers from A to Z. Specifically, Aldiss to Zelazny--although this coi ncidence in alphabet is merely incidental to the fact that both these gentl emen, and the several others represented in this anthology, all write super b science fiction. Two criteria were used in the selecting of these stories--literary merit and importance to the gen.

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ISBN:

ISBN-13: 9798829351250

Publisher: Independently published

Year: 2022

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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