Galactic Empires Vol. One [Hardcover]

Brian Aldiss (Editor)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 331 pages
• Publisher: Avon; 1st edition (February 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380423413
• ISBN-13: 978-0380423415
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,038,311 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An unusually good anthology of classic science fiction., June 13, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Galactic Empires (Hardcover)

I picked this book up at a used book sale intending to hold it in reserve for when I ran out of "better" reading material. Was I ever mistaken! This book is excellent! It consists of almost two dozen highly imaginative and downright mind-jarring tales of science fiction from mainly the 1950s and 60s. The first five are especially excellent. There isn't a bad one in the bunch and yet many of the authors have apparently become obscure since its publication. They do not deserve such a fate

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A nice collection of good short stories, December 3, 1999

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Wes Jones ([e-mail]) (Spiceland, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Galactic Empires (Hardcover)

I enjoyed the wit of the stories in this book immensely and hope that you do also. The possibilities are trulely endless for the human existance.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From Back Cover, January 30, 2009

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Avid Reader "Jim" (Columbus, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Galactic Empires Vol. One (Hardcover)

MAN'S GALACTIC EMPIRE IS WON...

The first stepping stones is Mars, then the plumed beauty of the winged planet, the telepathic wizardry of a world yearning to bestow utopia upon earthlings, the hospital plant that dispenses immortality to space Gods, and finally, the foundation is laid atop the rubble of fallen star systems - an Empire, vast and glorious, stretching from galactic horizon to the oracle planet of the future... Terminus.

Shaped by a unique vision, GLACTIC EMPIRES is a brilliant mosaic of a quarter century of the best writing in science fiction. It is both a chronicle of man's outward move from Earth and a collection of fourteen original views of space conquest. Volume One tells of galactic war and the rise of an Empire, Volume Two follows the Empire's destiny and man's ultimate destiny in space...

Stories Include:

* Been a Long Long Time - R. A. Lafferty
* The Possessed - Arthur C. Clarke
* Protected Species - H. B. Fyfe
* All the Way Back - Michael Shaara
* The Star Plunderer - Poul Anderson
* Foundation [short story] - Isaac Asimov
* We're Civilized - Mark Clifton and Alex Apostolides
* The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal - Cordwainer Smith
* The Rebel of Valkyr - Alfred Coppel
* Brightness Falls from the Air - Margaret StClair
* Immigrant - Clifford D. Simak
* Resident Physician - James White
* Age of Retirement - Mal Lynch
* Planting Time - Pete Adams & Charles Nightingale