Another Kind

Another Kind
First edition
Author Chad Oliver
Cover artist Richard M. Powers
Country United States
Language English
Genre Science fiction
Publisher Ballantine Books
Publication date
 1955
Media type Print (hardback)
Pages 190
OCLC 301196212

Another Kind is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Chad Oliver. It was issued in hardcover and paperback by Ballantine Books in 1955 and a German translation was issued in 1965.[1] It was Oliver's first collection.

Contents

  • "The Mother of Necessity", (original)
  • "Rite of Passage", (Astounding 1954)
  • "Scientific Method", (Science-Fiction Plus 1953)
  • "Night", (If 1955)
  • "Transformer", (F&SF 1954)
  • "Artifact", (F&SF 1955)
  • "A Star Above It", (original)

"Scientific Method" was originally published as "Hands Across Space".[2]

Reception

New York Times reviewer Villiers Gerson faulted Oliver's "uniformly quiet, underwritten style," declaring the "cumulative effect" of the stories was "emotional monotony; too cerebral for more than mild entertainment, they are clever fugues written in a minor key."[3] The Hartford Courant's George W. Earley praised Oliver's "excellent stories", saying he "has created some compellingly believable alien and earthly civilizations".[4]

References

  1. ↑ ISFDB Bibliography
  2. ↑ Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections
  3. ↑ "In the Realm of the Spaceman", The New York Times Book Review, October 23, 1955, p. 30
  4. ↑ "Science Fiction", The Hartford Courant, October 16, 1955, p. SM22
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