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Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home
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A collection of 15 masterpieces by one of the brightest stars in the science fiction firmament, tales of wit, wonder and adventure - with a touch of something strange...
Contents:
- Introduction - (1976) - essay by Gardner Dozois
- Introduction - (1973) - essay by Harry Harrison
- And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side - (1972) - shortstory
- The Snows Are Melted, the Snows Are Gone - (1969) - shortstory
- The Peacefulness of Vivyan - (1971) - shortstory
- Mama Come Home - (1975) - novelette (variant of The Mother Ship 1968)
- Help - (1973) - novelette (variant of Pupa Knows Best 1968)
- Painwise - (1972) - novelette
- Faithful to Thee, Terra, in Our Fashion - (1973) - novelette (variant of Parimutuel Planet 1969)
- The Man Doors Said Hello To - (1970) - shortstory
- The Man Who Walked Home - (1972) - shortstory
- Forever to a Hudson Bay Blanket - (1972) - shortstory
- I'll Be Waiting for You When the Swimming Pool is Empty - (1971) - shortstory
- I'm Too Big but I Love to Play - (1970) - novelette
- Birth of a Salesman - (1968) - shortstory
- Mother in the Sky With Diamonds - (1971) - novelette
- Beam Us Home - (1969) - shortstory
And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side - Exogamy, the desire to mate with the new and different has been a primary force in human evolution - but when the object of that desire is not merely different, but alien...
The Man Who Walked Home - The first Chrononaut moved step by step from the far future toward a present whose past was in the future, and whose future was his past.
I'm Too Big But I Love To Play - Genuine communication between human and alien implies that one must transform himself into an analog of the other. And when that transformation is complete...
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