Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964 by Judith Merril, C.M. Kornbluth, Murray Leinster, Lewis Padgett, Anthony Boucher, Lester del Rey, Jerome Bixby, Cordwainer Smith, Theodore Sturgeon, Fredric Brown, Richard Matheson, James Blish, Fritz Leiber, Isaac Asimov, Daniel Keyes, Clifford D. Simak, Robert Silverberg, John W. Campbell Jr., A.E. van Vogt, Alfred Bester, Damon Knight, Arthur C. Clarke, Tom Godwin, Roger Zelazny, Robert A. Heinlein, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Ray Bradbury

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dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

3.0

Like any anthology, a very mixed bag. Some stories are incredible, some don't deserve the hype. Quite  a few, as can be expected from the time of writing, racist, ableist or misogynistic. 

The best ones I would absolutely recommend are Asimov's "Nightfall", Bradbury's "Mars is Heaven", Padgett's "Mimsy were the Borogroves", Clarke's "The Nine Billion Names of God", Bixby's "It's a Good Life", and Matheson's "Born of Man and Woman."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Ableism, Misogyny, Sexism, War, Xenophobia, Violence, Religious bigotry, Murder, Medical content, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Drug use, Confinement, Classism, Child death, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Grief, Colonisation, Child abuse, Alcohol, Animal death, Antisemitism, and Islamophobia