Time and Stars
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 Dust-jacket from the first edition | |
| Author | Poul Anderson |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Thomas Chibbaro[1] |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Published | 1964 |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 249 |
| ASIN B0000CM9GM | |
Time and Stars is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Poul Anderson, published in 1964.
Source[2]
- "No Truce with Kings": A war story set on a future, semi-primitive Earth with aliens
- Original Appearance: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1963
- "The Critique of Impure Reason": A robot will not work because it is infatuated with modern literature and literary criticism. (Not to be confused with the Critique of Impure Reason, a book in philosophy by Steven James Bartlett.)
- Original Appearance: If, November 1962
- "Escape from Orbit": Astronauts stranded in orbit around the Moon
- Original Appearance: Amazing Stories, October 1962
- "Eve Times Four" (Available online): Space traveler Lothario is stranded on a planet with three beautiful women
- Original Appearance: Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, April 1960
- "Turning Point": A first contact story that gives a haunting portrait of the price of giftedness and the loss of innocence
- Original Appearance: If, May 1963
- "Epilogue": A crew of humans return to Earth after a long absence, finding it has been taken over by a kind of transistor-based ecology of machines; a lack of understanding between the robots and the humans leads to tragedy
- Original Appearance: Analog, March 1962
