4.0 out of 5 stars
Not Free SF Reader, August 3, 2007
This review is from: The Golden Road (Hardcover)
This collection had a massive influence on me, I think, I still remember some of the stories vividly.
Jenny With Wings, the Truth About Pyecraft, Magic Inc., The White Company, and definitely Not Long Before the End.
Golden Road : Are You Too Late Or Was I Too Early - John Collier
Golden Road : Entire and Perfect Chrysolite - R. A. Lafferty
Golden Road : Jenny with Wings - Kate Wilhelm
Golden Road : The Truth About Pyecraft - H. G. Wells
Golden Road : The Words of Guru - C. M. Kornbluth
Golden Road : Postpaid to Paradise - Robert Arthur
Golden Road : The White People - Arthur Machen
Golden Road : Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven - Mark Twain
Golden Road : Will You Wait? - Alfred Bester
Golden Road : The King of the Cats - Stephen Vincent Benét
Golden Road : The Word of Unbinding - Ursula K. Le Guin
Golden Road : Magic Inc. - Robert A. Heinlein
Golden Road : Anything Box - Zenna Henderson
Golden Road : Artist Unknown - Heywood Broun
Golden Road : The Silence - Bernard McLaughlin
Golden Road : The Weeblies - Algis Budrys
Golden Road : Phantas - Oliver Onions
Golden Road : Not Long Before the End - Larry Niven
Ghosts quieter than mice.
2.5 out of 5
Ship sightings.
3.5 out of 5
A young woman goes to see a doctor about her condition. This is not an illness, but a condition that would let her fill in for The Angel in the X-Men if he had to take a holiday.
The doctor is not just that he seems, either.
4 out of 5
A man needs to get his physics straight when asking for supernatural dieting assistance.
4 out of 5
Planet busting phoneme.
3.5 out of 5
Mailed man.
4 out of 5
Be choosy with literature and statuary.
I think there are quite a few people that will find this rather on the dry side, as the two characters at the start discuss the psychology of evil, and then the story becomes a large passage from an imaginary book. This is quite lacking in paragraphs, so a bit of a pain to read in this book, electronic maybe better here.
3 out of 5
This was in a book I had as a kid that was quite influential. Still remember it vividly, so must be good! Slyly funny satire - angelic life is boring, and you can't talk to dead Germans or cavemen when you don't speak the same language!
4 out of 5
Supernatural lawyer customer service sucks.
3 out of 5
Tail conducting.
3.5 out of 5
Conflict success not much fun for anyone.
4 out of 5
Protection racket repulsing requires lobbying.
4.5 out of 5
Handy to have invisible tv stuff for boring school.
3 out of 5
Incarspiration.
2 out of 5
Watching those that will come, for a long, long time.
1.5 out of 5
Body snatching Tribbles, perhaps.
3.5 out of 5
What ship?
2 out of 5
Once upon a time a swordsman battled a sorcerer. As was fairly de rigeur, really.
To paraphrase Guru Bob, 'a good big barbarian with weapon will always beat a good little sorcerer when the magic goes away.'
4.5 out of 5
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