anthology: GALACTIC EMPIRES, Volume One

Brian Aldiss has selected twenty-six stories and assembled them into a mamoth saga which explores many dimensions of the Galactic Empire: its origins, laws, mores, educational systems, not to mention its incredible variety of inhabitants, and their experience with the natural quirks of the universe in which they, and we, all live. Aldiss has created nothing less than the epic riese and fall of the Galactic Empire.

The result is a vast panorama which begins with the first quiverings of incipient Time and is confined only by the limits of the world´s most daring and creative imaginations.

CONTENTS:

• Been a Long Time (R.A.Lefferty)
• The Possessed (Arthur C. Clarke)
• Protected Species (H.B.Fyfe)
• All the Way Back (Michael Shaara)
• The Star Plunderer (Poul Anderson)
• Foundation (Isaac Asimov)
• We´re Civilized! (Mark Clifton and Alex Apostolides)
• The Crime and Glory of Commander Suzdal (Cordwainer Smith)
• The Rebel of Valkyr (Alfred Coppel)
• Brightness Falls from the Air (Idris Seabright)
• Inmigrant (Clifford Simak)
• Resident Physician (James White)
• Age of Retirement (Hal Lynch)
• Planting Time (P.Adams and Charles Nightingale)
  

EDITED BY: Brian Aldiss

COVER: hardback

PAGES: 303

LANGUAGE: english