New Twilight Zone [Hardcover]

Ed Greenberg (Author), Martin Harry Greenberg (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1997

A showcase for the very best in fantasy and suspense. Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone" made television history, bringing bold and breathtaking new worlds of wonder into the living rooms of millions of fans.

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Amazon.com Review

Here's one anthology that lives up to its subtitle: 21 Tales by the Greatest Sci-Fi and Dark Fantasy Writers of Our Time. This is also an important theme anthology, collecting all the original stories later adapted into episodes of the 1980s revival television series The Twilight Zone. (Greenberg also coedited the equally fine anthology The Twilight Zone: The Original Stories, which collects all the stories adapted for the series' original run in the early 1960s.) Besides great stories by such masters as Richard Matheson, Harlan Ellison, Robert R. McCammon, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, and Roger Zelazny, pop culture historians will appreciate the introduction by Alan Brennert, which details the rise--and rapid fall--of the revived series. --Stanley Wiater

Product Details

• Hardcover: 295 pages
• Publisher: Fine Communications (July 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1567310834
• ISBN-13: 978-1567310832
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #803,613 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stories from season 1 and 2 of the new Twilight Zone (1985-86), August 12, 2009

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Skilpadde "Zombie" (Norway) - See all my reviews

This review is from: New Twilight Zone (Hardcover)

This anthology contain 21 short stories that the Twilight Zone series from the 1980's were based on. There are some real great stories here.
Harlan Ellison: "Shatterday": A man gets a phone call...from himself.

Alan Brennert: "Healer": Two men breaking into a museum finds an artifact with magical powers.

Robert R. McCammon: "Nightcrawlers": A Vietnam veteran with supernatural powers causes trouble.

Henry Slesar: "Examination day": All children aged 12 have to take the Government Intelligence test.

William L. Lee: "A message from Charity": 16 year old Peter is in telepathic contact with Charity, a girl living in 1700.

Harlan Ellison: "Paladin of the lost hour": An old man is guarding the lost hour that must never be.

Ray Bradbury: "The burning man": A woman and her nephew drive along a road and pick up an unusual hitchhiker along the way.

William F. Wu: "Wong's lost and found emporium": An Oriental man is in a shop of sorts looking for something valuable that he lost years ago.

Harlan Ellison: "One life, furnished in early poverty": A man is transported back in time and meets himself.

Joe Haldeman: "I of Newton": A professor stuck on a problem is challenged by a demon.

Arthur C Carke: "The star": An astro physicist and a priest in outer space come across an alien beacon.

Charles E. Fritch: "The misfortune cookie": A man refuses to accept the message in a fortune cookie.

Theodore Sturgeon: "Yesterday was Monday": A man discovers a secret about time.

Robert Silverberg: "To see the invisible man": A man is judged as being too cold and is sentenced to one year's invisibility.

Greg Bear: "Dead run": A truck driver is delivering souls to Hell.

Richard Matheson: "Button, button": A couple is given a box that can give them money at the cost of a person's life.

Arthur Grey: "The everlasting club": A group of friends take an evil oath.

Roger Zelazny: "The last defender of Camelot": Launcelot and Morgana fight Merlin in contemporary society.

Theodore Sturgeon: "A saucer of loneliness": A man rescues a woman who has received a message from a flying saucer.

Phyllis Eisenstein: "Lost and found": Two college room mates find their things are disappearing.

Parke Godwin: "Influencing the hell out of time and Theresa Golowitz": A musician dies and the devil allows him to go back in time to have a go at his dream girl.


This is the perfect anthology for anyone who loves the Twilight Zone from the 1980's.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ehhh...., March 5, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: New Twilight Zone (Hardcover)

The problem with this book is that while you think your're getting 21 short stories, you're really short stories that were made for tv scripts. For instance, "I of Newton" is only four pages long, and you wonder how they got an hour of programming out of some of these short stories. Also, if you are a fan of sci fi, you've probably read some of these stories before, like "Nightcrawlers" by Robert McCammon. But overall I like the stories I hadn't read. "Examination Day" ought to be standard reading in school, if for nothing less than to scare the bejeezus out of school children.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Also has INFORMATION on the TV-show!, April 1, 2000

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Torsten Kracke (Rotenburg, Germany) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: New Twilight Zone (Hardcover)

For fans of the show (which ran from 1985-88) the best thing about this book is definitely the Introduction "Two Years in the Twilight Zone" by Alan Brennert. On about 16 pages he describes how he came to work on the show, what working for it was like, what happened when it finally got cancelled and most interestingly he makes some remarks about the dreaded third season, which was done for half the budget by completely different people and he talks about the editing process of the first two seasons. After the introduction you get 21 stories from the show, which are interesting in their own right since sometimes they differ a lot from the final product.