Robert Silverberg Alpha 3 Paperback Book

The third in a series of superb science fiction. The Alpha series of anthologies center on no particular theme except that of literary quality. Two criteria were used in the selecting of these storiesliterary merit and importance to the genre. The result is that the variety of subjects is matched only by the richness and diversity of their handlingbrilliant, frightening, clever, bizarre, powerful, witty, funnyand several steps inbetween. Simply put, here is the best science fiction from the best science fiction writers. The main intent of the Alpha series is to assemble groups of stories that give pleasure by demonstrating the richness and variety of the sciencefiction form. Quality of storytelling is the touchstone I make no effort to gather the stories in any one volume according to any thematic pattern. Yet thematic patterns seem to creep into the books like insidious invaders from far galaxies. The first Alpha contained a cluster of tales dealing with travel through timerelativity gone topsyturvy all over the book. The second volume, through no prior intent of the editor, seemed to deal almost entirely with the tensions arising out of mans confrontation with technology. And in this third one, I find, a prevailing theme in nearly every story is the conflict between ourselves and strangers. Again and again, through some odd accident of balance, you will find tales of tense encounters, showing protagonists facing the unknown quantities of time and space. Freud tells us that... | Robert Silverberg Alpha 3 Paperback Book