Galactic Dreams Author:Harry Harrison Collected here are twelve of Harrison's best, including "Space Rats of the CCC," probably the greatest space opera ever written, slightly tongue-in-cheek; "At Last, the True Story of Frankenstein," in which our favorite monster gets new life -- but whose life is it?; "Bill, the Galactic Hero's Happy Holiday,"... more »; in which our favorite drunkard enlistee is kidnapped by the evil Chingers and hypnotized into believing he's a general; and nine more classics ranging across time and space!
Contents:
Introduction - A Writer's Life
"I Always Do What Teddy Says"
"Space Rats of the CCC"
"Down to Earth"
"A Criminal Act"
"Famous First Words"
"The Pad: a Story of the Day After Tomorrow"
"If"
"Mute Milton"
"Simulated Trainer"
"At Last, the True Story of Frankenstein"
"The Robot Who Wanted to Know"
"Bill, the Galactic Hero's Happy Holiday"
Each story has a one-page black and white illustration.
From the introduction: "The stories in this book were written over the span of many years. They reread well - even better once I had taken out all errors that printers let creep into typeset manuscripts. I admit to a certain amount of polishing an unkempt phrase here, a maladroit sentence there. But nothing major they were written to the best of my ability the first time around." Harry Harrison.« less