anthology: GALACTIC EMPIRES, Volume Two

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:

• Escape to Chaos (John D. MacDonald)
• Concealment (A. E. van Vogt)
• To Civilize (Algis Budrys)
• Beep (James Blish)
• Down the River (Mack Reynolds)
• The Bounty Hunter (Avram Davidson)
• Not Yet the End (Fredric Brown)
• Tonight the Stars Revolt! (Gardner F. Fox)
• Final Encounter (Harry Harrison)
• Lord of a Thousand Suns (Poul Anderson)
• Big Ancestor (F. L. Wallace)
• The Interlopers (Roger Dee)
  

EDITED BY: Brian Aldiss

COVER: hardback

PAGES: 278

LANGUAGE: english