Each volume in Terry Carr's Universe series is an eagerly awaited event in science fiction: the best new stories by famous authors and tomorrow's stars. This latest collection features:
Fritz Leiber's A Rite of Spring, a full-length novelette in which a young genius discovers an unknown cosmos;
Brian W. Aldiss's My Lady of the Psychiatric Sorrows, a tale of humanity struggling to adjust to a strange future;
R. A. Lafferty's Brain Fever Season, the wacky story of a time when everyone in the world became an Intellectual.
Plus stories of time travel, future art-forms, gremlins from another dimension, and more, by Gene Wolfe, Julian Reid, Robert Chilson, George Alec Effinger, and Carter Scholz.
Stories include: A Rite of Spring, by Fritz Leiber (nominated, 1977 Nebula Award); My Lady of the Psychiatric Sorrows, by Brian W. Aldiss; Probability Storm, by Julian Reid; People Reviews, by Robert Chilson; Ibid., by George Alec Effinger; The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton, by Gene Wolfe; Brain Fever Season, by R. A. Lafferty; The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs, by Carter Scholz (nominated, 1977 Nebula Award, 1978 Hugo Award).
