THE SCIENCE FICTION OF MARK CLIFTON. Edited by Barry N. Malzberg and Martin H. Greenberg .
Language: English
Published by Southern Illinois University Press. London and Amsterdam: Feffer & Simons, Carbondale and Edwardsville, 1980
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Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects eleven of the twenty stories published by Clifton with memoir by Judith Merril and afterword by Barry N. Malzberg. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-261. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169254).
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- Title
- THE SCIENCE FICTION OF MARK CLIFTON. Edited by Barry N. Malzberg and Martin H. Greenberg .
- Author
- Clifton, Mark
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press. London and Amsterdam: Feffer & Simons, Carbondale and Edwardsville
- Publication year
- 1980
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0809309858
- ISBN 13
- 9780809309856
- Edition
- 1st Edition
This collection of the best short stories of Mark Clifton makes these fine tales readily available for the first time in two decades.
Winner with Frank Riley of the 1955 Hugo Award for They’d Rather Be Right,Clifton has for a variety of reasons unrelated to the quality of his writing all but disappeared from the awareness of today’s science fiction audience. Never a prolific writer he had published only about twenty-five short stories before his death in 1963.But with those stories and his three novels he irrevocably altered the course of contemporary science fiction.
Almost single-handedly he introduced the full range of psychological insights to the commonly occurring themes of the genre―alien invasion, expanding technology, revolution against political theocracy, and space exploration and colonization―to ever more truthfully portray how humanity would react to a future that could be either mindless or intellectually stunning.
With his first published story, “What Have I Done?” Clifton initiated the theme of a starkly realistic world in which, at its best, humanity is inalterably vile―a theme that became an inextricable part of all his subsequent works. In his later works Clifton occasionally clothed his bitter indictment in the garb of comedy.
The stories collected here include “What Have I Done?” “Star, Bright,” “Crazy Joey,” “What Thin Partitions,” “Sense from Thought Divide,” “How Allied,” “Remembrance and Reflection,” “Hide! Hide! Witch!” “Clerical Error,” “What Now, Little Man?” and “Hang Head, Vandal!”
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Indeed, Clifton’s proficiency ranks him among the best sf writers of the fifties A debt of gratitude is owed to Malzberg and Greenberg for letting us see the work of a writer who had the field buzzing in the early to mid-fifties.” Timothy R. Sullivan, Conference on the Fantastic, Boca Raton, Florida
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