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The Gnarly Man
"The Gnarly Man" is a science fiction story by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, about an apparently immortal Neanderthal Man surviving into the present day. Publication history The story was first published in the magazine ''Unknown'' for June, 1939 and first appeared in book form in de Camp's collection ''The Wheels of If and Other Science Fiction'' ( Shasta, 1948).Laughlin, Charlotte, and Levack, Daniel J. H. ''De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography''. San Francisco, Underwood/Miller, 1983, pages 168-169. It later appeared in the subsequent de Camp collections '' The Best of L. Sprague de Camp'' ( Doubleday, 1978), '' Aristotle and the Gun and Other Stories'' (Five Star, 2002), and '' Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp'' ( NESFA Press, 2005). The story has also appeared in the magazines ''Fantastic Story Magazine'' for July, 1953 and '' Jim Baen's Universe'' for April, 2007, and the anthologies '' Human?'' (Lion Books, 1954), '' The Unkno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is a Wikimedia movement affinity group for contributors with shared goals. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sister projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by '' Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant to the field at issue. For e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NESFA Press
NESFA Press is the publishing arm of the New England Science Fiction Association, Inc. The NESFA Press primarily produces three types of books: * Books honoring the guest(s) of honor at their annual convention, Boskone, and at some Worldcons and other conventions. * Books in the NESFA's Choice series, which bring back into print the works of deserving classic SF writers such as James Schmitz, Cordwainer Smith, C. M. Kornbluth, and Zenna Henderson. * Reference books on science fiction and science fiction fandom. Works published by NESFA Press This is a reverse chronological list of books published by NESFA Press. 2020s 2020 * ''Stan's Kitchen'' by Kim Stanley Robinson * ''Believing'' by Zenna Henderson 2010s 2019 * ''On the Road with Gardner Dozois'' by Gardner Dozois * ''From These Ashes'' by Fredric Brown * '' Ingathering'' by Zenna Henderson * ''Transfinite'' by A. E. van Vogt * ''The Immortal Storm'' by Sam Moskowitz 2018 * ''Making Conversation'' by Teresa Nielsen Hayd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neanderthals (anthology)
''Neanderthals'' is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Robert Silverberg, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh as the sixth volume in the Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction series. It was first published in paperback by Signet/New American Library in February 1987. The book collects eleven novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, together with an introduction by Isaac Asimov and an afterword by Silverberg. Contents *"Introduction: Neanderthal Man" (Isaac Asimov) *"Genesis" (H. Beam Piper) *"The Ugly Little Boy" (Isaac Asimov) *"The Long Remembering" ( Poul Anderson) *"The Apotheosis of Ki" (Miriam Allen deFord) *"Man o' Dreams" ( Will McMorrow) *"The Treasure of Odirex" ( Charles Sheffield) *"The Ogre" ( Avram Davidson) *"Alas, Poor Yorick" ( Thomas A. Easton) *"The Gnarly Man" (L. Sprague de Camp) *"The Hairy Parents" (A. Bertram Chandler) *"The Alley Man "The Alley Man" is a science fiction short sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
36 Stories And Novellas
36 may refer to: * 36 (number), the natural number following 35 and preceding 37 * One of these years of Gregorian or Julian calendars: ** 36 BC, 1st century BCE ** AD 36, 1st century ** 1936, 20th century ** 2036, 21st century Arts and entertainment * ''36'' (TV series), an American sports documentary show * "36", a 2002 song by System of a Down from '' Steal This Album!'' * 36 Quai des Orfèvres (film) ''36 Quai des Orfèvres'' (also known as ''The 36'') is a 2004 French film directed by Olivier Marchal and starring Daniel Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu. The title derives from the original address of the Judicial Police headquarters, part of the ..., a 2004 French crime film * "Thirty Six", a song by Karma to Burn from the album '' Almost Heathen'', 2001 {{Numberdis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsevier
Elsevier () is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content. Its products include journals such as ''The Lancet'', ''Cell'', the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, '' Trends'', the '' Current Opinion'' series, the online citation database Scopus, the SciVal tool for measuring research performance, the ClinicalKey search engine for clinicians, and the ClinicalPath evidence-based cancer care service. Elsevier's products and services also include digital tools for data management, instruction, research analytics and assessment. Elsevier is part of the RELX Group (known until 2015 as Reed Elsevier), a publicly traded company. According to RELX reports, in 2021 Elsevier published more than 600,000 articles annually in over 2,700 journals; as of 2018 its archives contained over 17 million documents and 40,000 e-books, with over one billion annual downloads. Researchers have criticized Elsevier for its high profit marg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 1 (1939)
''Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 1 (1939)'' is an American collection of short stories, edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, originally published by DAW books in March 1979. It contains science fiction stories selected by the editors that were published in the year 1939. The book is part of a 25 volume series. Each successive volume in the series contains stories from the next year, continuing through 1963. The series starts with 1939 because Asimov had previously published a three volume anthology series titled, "Before the Golden Age", covering years 1931 - 1938, which he considered to be definitive for those years. According to DAW, The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) "is the first in what Isaac Asimov plans to be a definitive series of sf anthologies, covering year by year the truly memorable stories that have progressively brought science fiction to its present prominence". The second volume of the series is '' Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 2 (194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rapp & Whiting
Rapp or RAPP may refer to: * Rapp (surname) *Rapp, West Virginia * HNoMS Rapp, HNoMS ''Rapp'', the name of several Norwegian navy ships * Russian Association of Proletarian Writers * Fort Rapp, a fort in France * Rapp Motorenwerke, early 20th-century German aircraft engine manufacturer and predecessor to BMW {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Freak Show (anthology)
''The Freak Show'' is an anthology of fantasy and horror short works edited by Peter Haining. It was first published in hardcover by Rapp & Whiting in March 1970. The first paperback edition was issued by Corgi in March 1971, and a second hardcover edition by Thomas Nelson in 1972. It has also been translated into German. The book collects twenty novelettes and short stories by various authors, together with an introduction by the editor. Contents *"Introduction: The Truth About the Bearded Lady" ( Peter Haining) *"The Magician" (Daniel Defoe) *"Hop-Frog" ( Edgar Allan Poe) *" Spurs" (Tod Robbins) *"The Ampoi Giant" (Clark Ashton Smith) *"The Dwarf" ( Ray Bradbury) *"The Gnarly Man" (L. Sprague de Camp) *"The Gay Deceiver" (Mildred Clingerman) *"The Rabbit Prince" ( Davis Grubb) *"Beidenbauer's Flea" (Stanley Ellin) *"The Power of the Puppets" ( Fritz Leiber) *"The Rising Man" (Joseph Payne Brennan) *"Jizzle" ( John Wyndham) *"Carousel" ( August Derleth) *"Heads You Win ..." ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jove Books
Jove Books, formerly known as Pyramid Books, is an American paperback and eBook publishing imprint, founded as an independent paperback house in 1949 by Almat Magazine Publishers (Alfred R. Plaine and Matthew Huttner). The company was sold to the Walter Reade, Walter Reade Organization in the late 1960s. It was acquired in 1974 by Harcourt Trade Publishers, Harcourt Brace (which became Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) which renamed it to Jove in 1977 and continued the line as an imprint (trade name), imprint. In 1979, they sold it to The Putnam Berkley Group, which is now part of the Penguin Group. History 1949–1969 Phil Hirsch was vice president of Pyramid Books from 1955-1975 and had his name as author or editor on many of Pyramid's books, many of them anthologies of jokes, cartoons and humor, or concerned with the military and warfare, including some which combined those interests. While not the most prolific publisher of science fiction and fantasy during its years as Pyramid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Unknown (1963 Anthology)
''The Unknown'' is an anthology of fantasy fiction short stories edited by D. R. Bensen and illustrated by Edd Cartier, the second of a number of anthologies drawing their contents from the American magazine ''Unknown'' of the 1930s-1940s. It was first published in paperback by Pyramid Books in April 1963. It was reprinted by the same publisher in October 1970, and by Jove/HBJ in August 1978 A companion anthology, ''The Unknown Five'', was issued in 1964. The book collects eleven tales by various authors, together with a foreword by Isaac Asimov and an introduction by the editor. Contents * "Foreword" (Isaac Asimov) * "Introduction" ( D. R. Bensen) * "The Misguided Halo" (Henry Kuttner) (''Unknown'', Aug. 1939) * "Prescience" ( Nelson S. Bond) (''Unknown Worlds'', Oct. 1941) * "Yesterday Was Monday" (Theodore Sturgeon) (''Unknown Fantasy Fiction'', June 1941) * " The Gnarly Man" (L. Sprague de Camp) (''Unknown'', June 1939) * "The Bleak Shore" (Fritz Leiber) (''Unknown Fantasy Fic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
