Forgotten Books: Somewhere a Voice -- Eric Frank Russell

When I was but a sprite of a lad, one of my favorite SF writers was Eric Frank Russell. I was particularly fond of a novel called Wasp, worth of a forgotten books mention, itself. But I've said all this before. What I didn't say is that I first discovered Russell because of his short fiction. I believe that the first story of his I read was "Dear Devil," which appeared in some anthology or other and which is included in this collection, along with six other stories.

There's also a short intro by Russell, which I thought was interesting and amusing. It gives a fair idea of Russell's writing style (though the irritant that I mentioned in the review linked above, Russell's avoidance of the word "said," is all to evident in the stories themselves). You can see from the "Acknowledgments" that the stories come from four magazines with which you're probably passingly familiar. Russell was an interesting and entertaining writer, far too good to be forgotten. If you've never read his work, this book would be a good place to start.