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Quality
Campbell has some brilliant characters to go with the storyline and the incredible world building he has done
There are some fascinating concepts with the technology as with most of the shorts in this collection and kern’s characters are... Read More
Science fiction has always been at home with the short story
There is no lack of creativity on the ways that these writers approach first contact and were left with the ability to imagine ... Read More
Shipping
The captain of the ship jena morrisondiablo is sort of on her own apart from a semiorganic android greg
They are sent to a planet to get weapons but the planet does not have a pleasant greeting for the ship
Packaging/appearance
I liked that the stories were loosely tied into the same universe
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first, short, great, different and good. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 78.0% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 111 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 29 2021.
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Interesting to note that common to many of the stories is the notion that whatever happens we just cant let a nasty alien force figure out the location of where we came from
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I ordered on a whim by just looking at the cover after all thats what covers are for
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I am disappointed because i wanted novels and got collection 1 star but what really irks me is that pretty much all the stories end with cliffhangers so that takes off 1 star
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This volume i could read all stories but there are still the incomplete endings
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This was more interesting due to the stories being all based on a single premise
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The science fiction magazines from the mid 20th century onwards was frequently the only way of writers to get their work published
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The introduction sets this up with a damaged alien ship discovered on the moon
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It is able to transmit details of nearby inhabited star systems and a terrible warning about a dangerous foe before it shuts down
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