Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 17, 1955 (1988)) by Isaac Asimov; Martin H. Greenberg

Author:Isaac Asimov; Martin H. Greenberg [Greenberg, Isaac Asimov; Martin H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-02T21:00:00+00:00

THE SHORT ONES

BY RAYMOMD E. BANKS (1918- )

THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION MARCH

Raymond E. Banks has no entry in either edition of TWENTIETH-CENTURY SCIENCE-FICTION WRITERS, a glaring omission that perhaps derives from the fact that Banks published no novels and never had a story collection. Nevertheless, he deserves attention as a writer who published more than thirty stores in the sf magazines, primarily in the decade 1954-1964, and who at his best was very good indeed. Particularly noteworthy are “The Littlest People” (1954), “The City That Loves You” (1969), “Rabbits to the Moon” (1959), and “Walter Perkins Is Merer (1970).

The present selection concerns how leaders are/should be chosen, a topic that seems especially important in January, 1987 as these words are typed. “The Short Ones” remains one of the best treatments of power in the genre, and a story that richly deserves to be remembered. (MHG)

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