''Aliens!'' is a themed
anthology of
science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imagination, imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, Paral ...
short works edited by American writers
Gardner Dozois and
Jack Dann, the first in a
series of themed anthologies. It was first published in paperback by
Pocket Books
Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books.
History
Pocket Books produced the first mass-market, pocket-sized paperback books in the United States in early 1939 and revolutionized the publishin ...
in April 1980.
Subsequent volumes in the series were published by
Ace Books.
Summary
The book collects fourteen novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, including four
Draco Tavern stories by
Larry Niven, with a general foreword and individual introductions to each piece by the editors, together with a bibliography of further reading.
Contents
*"Foreword" (
Gardner Dozois and
Jack Dann)
*"Assimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing" (
Larry Niven)
*"Grammar Lesson" (
Larry Niven)
*"The Subject Is Closed" (
Larry Niven)
*"Cruel and Unusual" (
Larry Niven)
*"We Purchased People" (
Frederik Pohl)
*"Guesting Time" (
R. A. Lafferty
Raphael Aloysius "R. A." Lafferty (November 7, 1914March 18, 2002) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure, Lafferty also wrote a set of four autobiographical n ...
)
*"And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side" (
James Tiptree, Jr.
Alice Bradley Sheldon (born Alice Hastings Bradley; August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author better known as James Tiptree, Jr., a pen name she used from 1967 to her death. It was not publicly known un ...
)
*"Angel's Egg" (
Edgar Pangborn)
*"Oh, to Be a Blobel!" (
Philip K. Dick
Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928March 2, 1982), often referred to by his initials PKD, was an American science fiction writer. He wrote 44 novels and about 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his l ...
)
*"Be Merry" (
Algis Budrys)
*"Pattern" (
Fredric Brown)
*"An Honorable Death" (
Gordon R. Dickson)
*"The Reality Trip" (
Robert Silverberg
Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is an American author and editor, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards, a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, and a Grand ...
)
*"Rule Golden" (
Damon Knight)
*"Alien-Human Relations - A Guide to Further Reading"
Notes
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1980 anthologies
Science fiction anthologies
Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois Ace anthologies
Pocket Books books
Books with cover art by Michael Whelan
1980s science fiction works