daltonlp
Written on Nov 23, 2011
This was before:
- The atomic bomb
- Space travel
- Computers
- Telecommunications
- Understanding DNA
The book's introduction praises "serious" science fiction, which it contrasts with "comic-book" stories. This is hilarious, because half the stories in the anthology are Zap Brannigan pulp. The book has aliens, more aliens, man-eating plants, man-eating blobs, utopias, dystopias, apocalyptic disasters, romance, bromance, racism, sexism, and batman. I'm talking about a man who has bat tissue transplanted into his ear, and gains the powers (and characteristics) of a bat.
There are also two stories by Heinlein and Asimov which stand apart. It's easy to tell why those guys had actual writing careers.