New Dimensions 1 Author:Robert Silverberg (Editor) Anthology collection of Original Science Fiction short stories, ...the first volume of the series: dedicated to exploring a new era in Science Fiction. In the last few years the approach to science fiction has changed dramatically. From the early days when the bulk of science fiction was either crude adventure fiction or else cast in the m... more »ode of simply told puzzle stories, it has today broadened into an exciting literature which can find its roots in Joyce, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Kafka, and Mann. The aim of New Dimensions, in this and future volumes, is to publish the best science fiction short stories being written today, whether by highly regarded professionals or authors who have never before appeared in print. It will offer a platform for new ideas, new approaches, the freedom to publish what is good. These stories share a freshness and originality that come from stepping outside of the conventional, into unknown territory. Exploring beyond: beyond the everyday, beyond the commonplace, beyond even the traditional subject matter of science fiction. These stories explore new themes and notions in ways that are daringly different.
Contents:
Introduction (New Dimensions 1) • essay by Robert Silverberg
A Special Kind of Morning / Gardner Dozois
The Trouble with the Past / Alex Eisenstein and Phyllis Eisenstein
The Power of Time / Josephine Saxton
The Giberel / Doris Pitkin Buck
Vaster Than Empires and More Slow / Ursula K. Le Guin
The Great A / Robert C. Malstrom
At the Mouse Circus / Harlan Ellison
A Plague of Cars / Leonard Tushnet
Sky / R. A. Lafferty
Love Song of Herself / Edward Bryant
The Wicked Flee / Harry Harrison
The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World [Dayworld] / Philip José Farmer
Conquest / Barry N. Malzberg
Emancipation: A Romance of the Times to Come / Thomas M. Disch