Another Kind
First edition
AuthorChad Oliver
Cover artistRichard M. Powers
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherBallantine Books
Publication date
1955
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages190
OCLC301196212

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

The 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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