anthology
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of original science fiction short stories edited by
Terry Carr
Terry Gene Carr (February 19, 1937 – April 7, 1987) was an American science fiction fan, author, editor, and writing instructor.
Background and discovery of fandom
Carr was born in Grants Pass, Oregon. He attended the City College of San ...
, and illustrated by
Alicia Austin
Alicia Austin (born 1942) is an American fantasy and science fiction artist and illustrator. She works in print-making, Prismacolor, pastels and watercolors.
Early life and education
Austin was born in Providence, Kentucky. As her father was c ...
, the initial volume in a series of seventeen. It was first published in paperback by
Ace Books
Ace Books is a publisher of science fiction (SF) and fantasy books founded in New York City in 1952 by Aaron A. Wyn. It began as a genre publisher of mysteries and westerns, and soon branched out into other genres, publishing its first scienc ...
in 1971, with a British hardcover facsimile edition following from
Dennis Dobson
Dennis Dobson (1919 – 1978)Lewis Foreman, Susan Foreman''London: A Musical Gazetteer'' Yale University Press, 2005, p. 327. was a British book publisher who was the eponymous founder of a small but respected company in London.
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Set up ...
in 1975.
The book collects twelve novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction by Carr.
Alicia Austin
Alicia Austin (born 1942) is an American fantasy and science fiction artist and illustrator. She works in print-making, Prismacolor, pastels and watercolors.
Early life and education
Austin was born in Providence, Kentucky. As her father was c ...
supplied a full-page illustration for each story, returning just once more for ''
Universe 2
''Universe 2'' is an anthology of original science fiction short stories edited by Terry Carr and illustrated by Alicia Austin, the second volume in the seventeen-volume Universe (anthology series), Universe anthology series. It was first published ...
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Introduction
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Terry Carr
Terry Gene Carr (February 19, 1937 – April 7, 1987) was an American science fiction fan, author, editor, and writing instructor.
Background and discovery of fandom
Carr was born in Grants Pass, Oregon. He attended the City College of San ...
Gordon Eklund
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Good News from the Vatican
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Jade Blue
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Edward Bryant
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R. A. Lafferty
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Gerard F. Conway
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Notes for a Novel About the First Ship Ever to Venus
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Barry N. Malzberg
Barry Nathaniel Malzberg (born July 24, 1939) is an American writer and editor, most often of science fiction and fantasy.
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Poor Man, Beggar Man
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The Human Side of the Village Monster
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Edward Bryant
Edward Winslow Bryant Jr. (August 27, 1945 – February 10, 2017) was an American science fiction and horror writer sometimes associated with the Dangerous Visions series of anthologies that bolstered The New Wave. At the time of his death, ...
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Mount Charity
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Edgar Pangborn
Edgar Pangborn (February 25, 1909 – February 1, 1976) was an American writer of mystery, historical, and science fiction.
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Edgar Pangborn was born in New York City on February 25, 1909, to Harry Levi Pangborn, an attorney and diction ...
George Alec Effinger
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Effinger was a part of the Clarion Workshop, Clarion class of 1970 an ...
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Reception
Theodore Sturgeon praised ''Universe 1'' as "a nice full-spectrum anthology of originals" which "stay within Carr's rather strict definition of what sf ought to be.""Galaxy Bookshelf", '' Galaxy Science Fiction'', March 1972, pp.84-85