''The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde'' is the first collection of

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stories by author

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. It was originally published by

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in August 1970 with a

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edition and by

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the following month. The collection placed eighth in the

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Poll for best sf anthology or collection of the year.

* "Carcinoma Angels" (''

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'', 1967) * "The Age of Invention" (''

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1966) * "Outward Bound" (''

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'' 1964) * "A Child of Mind" ('' Amazing'' 1965) * "The Equalizer" (''Analog'' 1964) * "The Last of the Romany" (''Analog'' 1963) * "Technicality" (''Analog'' 1966) *
The Rules of the Road
( ''Galaxy'' 1964) * "Dead End" (''Galaxy'' 1969) * "A Night in Elf Hill" (''The Farthest Reaches'' 1968) * "Deathwatch" (''

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'' 1965) * "The Ersatz Ego" (''Amazing'' 1964) * "Neutral Ground" (''F&SF'' 1966) * "Once More, with Feeling" (''Knight'' 1969) * "It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane!" ( ''Gent'' 1967) * "Subjectivity" (''Analog'' 1964) * "The Entropic Gang Bang Caper" (''

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'' 1969) * "The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde" (''New Worlds'' 1969) "The Ersatz Ego" was originally published as "Your Name Shall Be . . . Darkness."

Reception

Reviewing the collection in ''Galaxy'',

Algis Budrys Algirdas Jonas "Algis" Budrys (January 9, 1931 – June 9, 2008) was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic. He was also known under the pen names Frank Mason, Alger Rome (in collaboration with Jerome Bixby), John ...

noted that "you become struck by Spinrad's breadth of awareness and by his ability to write a number of different styles well," but that " pinradnever rises above the level of simple, straightforward competence." Budrys concluded that "alarmingly, it's taking Spinrad a very long time to stop synthesizing and start speaking with his own voice.""Galaxy Bookshelf", ''Galaxy'', February 1971, pp.117-18

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