Tales from the Planet Earth [Paperback]

Frederik Pohl (Author), Elizabeth Anne Hull (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: St Martins Mass Market Paper (October 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312907796
• ISBN-13: 978-0312907792
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,867,275 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars International collection of linked stories with dum theme., July 29, 1998

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This review is from: Tales from the Planet Earth (Paperback)

The alien possession theme was not to my taste, but some stories were okay. "Fiddling for the water buffaloes" by S.P. Somtow was mostly interesting for the slices of Thai life. Nesvadba's (Czech) was an interesting satire on extreme rationalism, & Lundwall's (Sweden) managed to turn his into a time perception story with aliens like DS9's prophets only written yrs earlier. The 2 that worked best ,as sf & as stories, were back to back. First German author Armer had the nicest story because the alien & the human ended up helping each other & I'm in the mood for nice sf stories lately. Yano's story I think should have been expanded on. In fact with a little work it could be an interesting Sarah Canarylike novel, except this story was written first I believe. It had too much sex ,especially concerning 12 yr. olds, for me, but had an interesting myhological/poetic bent to it. Also it is very Japanese. I hope someone collects the "best" for! eign language sf into an anthology someday because I'm starting to think the non-English speaking world IS producing good stuff. However they'd be smart to add some classic stories from the English speaking world so it'd sale. On a side note the Chinese stories had the most positive view of the aliens, excepting the German story. I'm not sure what that means, but it's interesting.