tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post1513553330011740811..comments2024-03-28T02:29:37.413-05:00Comments on Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Forgotten Books: Isaac Asimov presents The Great SF Stories 25 (1963) -- Martin H. Greenberg and Isaac Asimov, EditorsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-78557484194622021062012-10-05T18:36:42.171-05:002012-10-05T18:36:42.171-05:00that above is ISFDB...here's the Contento/LOCU...that above is ISFDB...here's the Contento/LOCUS:<br /><br />Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories #25 (1963) ed. Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg (DAW 0-88677-518-3, Jul ’92 [Jun ’92], $5.50, 381pp, pb, cover by Bob Layzell) Anthology of 13 stories from 1963, with an introduction by the editor. This is the final book in the series.<br /><br /> 9 · Introduction · Martin H. Greenberg · in<br /> 13 · Fortress Ship [Berserker] · Fred Saberhagen · ss If Jan ’63<br /> 25 · Not in the Literature · Christopher Anvil · ss Analog Mar ’63<br /> 40 · The Totally Rich · John Brunner · nv Worlds of Tomorrow Jun ’63<br /> 68 · No Truce with Kings · Poul Anderson · na F&SF Jun ’63<br /> 133 · New Folks’ Home · Clifford D. Simak · nv Analog Jul ’63<br /> 160 · The Faces Outside · Bruce McAllister · ss If Jul ’63<br /> 170 · Hot Planet · Hal Clement · nv Galaxy Aug ’63<br /> 195 · The Pain Peddlers · Robert Silverberg · ss Galaxy Aug ’63<br /> 206 · Turn Off the Sky · Ray Nelson · nv F&SF Aug ’63<br /> 254 · They Don’t Make Life Like They Used To · Alfred Bester · nv F&SF Oct ’63<br /> 290 · Bernie the Faust · William Tenn · nv Playboy Nov ’63<br /> 319 · A Rose for Ecclesiastes · Roger Zelazny · nv F&SF Nov ’63<br /> 358 · If There Were No Benny Cemoli · Philip K. Dick · nv Galaxy Dec ’63Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-57204447835696595002012-10-05T18:33:58.345-05:002012-10-05T18:33:58.345-05:00Thanks for reminding me of these books! Wish I had...Thanks for reminding me of these books! Wish I had them all. I'll start revisiting them soon. Bill P. is right about more access to more book types in the 50s-70s. Maybe there was more time to wander around libraries and stores with cheap paperbacks & book club hardbacks rather easily available. Nobody ever pointed out SF, mysteries or westerns to me. I just discovered them for myself.<br />Well, maybe the kids of today's kids will get hooked if only to read stuff their parents don't know anything about!Budhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15511780835955994336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-84498580549092274072012-10-05T18:29:56.586-05:002012-10-05T18:29:56.586-05:00Contents (view Concise Listing)
9 • Introduct...<br />Contents (view Concise Listing)<br /><br /> 9 • Introduction (The Great SF Stories #25 (1963)) • essay by Martin H. Greenberg<br /> 13 • Fortress Ship • [Berserker] • (1963) • shortstory by Fred Saberhagen<br /> 25 • Not in the Literature • (1963) • shortstory by Christopher Anvil<br /> 40 • The Totally Rich • (1963) • novelette by John Brunner<br /> 68 • No Truce With Kings • (1963) • novella by Poul Anderson<br /> 133 • New Folks' Home • (1963) • novelette by Clifford D. Simak<br /> 160 • The Faces Outside • (1963) • shortstory by Bruce McAllister<br /> 170 • Hot Planet • (1963) • shortstory by Hal Clement<br /> 195 • The Pain Peddlers • (1963) • shortstory by Robert Silverberg<br /> 206 • Turn Off the Sky • (1963) • novelette by Ray Nelson<br /> 254 • They Don't Make Life Like They Used To • (1963) • novelette by Alfred Bester<br /> 290 • Bernie the Faust • (1963) • novelette by William Tenn<br /> 319 • A Rose for Ecclesiastes • (1963) • novelette by Roger Zelazny<br /> 358 • If There Were No Benny Cemoli • (1963) • novelette by Philip K. Dick <br /><br />Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-19252323763739368412012-10-05T09:51:08.063-05:002012-10-05T09:51:08.063-05:00OK, you sold me. I picked up three of these to ad...OK, you sold me. I picked up three of these to add to my growing shelves of older sf stories I've never read.<br /><br />I hope you're happy now.<br /><br />;)<br /><br /><br />JeffAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-34574788372164098602012-10-05T07:59:22.731-05:002012-10-05T07:59:22.731-05:00I really enjoyed this series, too. I remember we t...I really enjoyed this series, too. I remember we talked about it on a panel at Armadillocon a few years ago.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-58241047563085156262012-10-05T07:53:09.430-05:002012-10-05T07:53:09.430-05:00I dunno. FFB is hardly the only exercise of its so...I dunno. FFB is hardly the only exercise of its sort around, and some of them are in magazines that skew reasonably young...and some blogs I know are self-consciously retro, and they Think Young (as well as Being Sociable).<br /><br />I considered doing the last volume of this one, too...as with the Retro Hugos, I don't always think that the best choices were included, but the books are solid and sometimes surprising, as well as having a good selection from most of the relevant magazines of the years in question...Richard Lupoff's WHAT IF? books are comparable and comparably engaging...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-56390355953906408582012-10-05T07:26:05.006-05:002012-10-05T07:26:05.006-05:00You're right, Bill, the younger readers DON...You're right, Bill, the younger readers DON'T car about anything that hasn't been published in the last 5 or maybe 10 years. It's sad, but to them it seems that's old tired stuff and so outdated, why bother.<br /><br />They are very wrong, of course, but nothing to be done about that.Rick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978136287154214297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-87550421509374633462012-10-05T06:58:18.262-05:002012-10-05T06:58:18.262-05:00Take heart, Bill. The youngin' don't have ...Take heart, Bill. The youngin' don't have access to the way we absorbed the best products of the past. Growing up in the '60s and '70s, I could watch the Marx Brothers on Saturday afternoon TV, music acts on top 40 radio and Don Kirshner presents, go down to the bookstore and see the entirety of sci-fi and fantasy books on the shelves.<br /><br />Then, reviewing mysteries in the late '90s, I'd see the Bloodstained Bookshelf, read the list of 200 mysteries being released that month, and despaired that anyone could "cover" a genre anymore. <br /><br />Now, my children pick up certain books and find themselves enthralled with them, but it takes someone to place it in their hands and say, "read." My daughter's reading Agatha Christie because I'm working on annotating her first book, and when I watched Harold Lloyd's "Freshman" movie, my son sat down for a few minutes and stayed with me for the rest of the movie.<br /><br />Those who are curious will find the path they want to take. The rest will not, as they always did (or watch Honey Boo Boo).Bill Peschelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15257587479467531187noreply@blogger.com