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http://nhw.livejournal.com/854761.html[return][return]A baker s dozen of stories by well-established authors (Aldiss, Anderson, Asimov, Ballard they are printed by alphabetical order), some of which go some way to challenging comfortable political preconceptions (though one L. Sprague de Camp s Proposal is I fear serious rather than satirical in its anti-feminism). It also struck me that a lot of the stories were really about death; the very first, Aldiss Judas Danced , is about an execution and the last, Mack Reynolds Retaliation , is a post-nuclear holocaust vignette (with a sting in the tale the viewpoint characters, for whom the author has developed our sympathy, are Russians not Americans). Anyway, a good collection.
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