tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post1631440047584876236..comments2024-03-28T19:52:07.635-04:00Comments on Sweet Freedom: FFB: Terry Carr, ed: SCIENCE FICTION FOR PEOPLE WHO HATE SCIENCE FICTION (Doubleday 1966); Harry Harrison, ed: THE LIGHT FANTASTIC (Scribner's 1971)Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-86142137698070019872012-02-04T00:20:41.775-05:002012-02-04T00:20:41.775-05:00You could do worse than both, George. Harrison no ...You could do worse than both, George. Harrison no slouch in this regard, either.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-49896339426131675902012-02-03T21:24:45.129-05:002012-02-03T21:24:45.129-05:00I think Terry Carr was one of the great SF editors...I think Terry Carr was one of the great SF editors. His series of ACE SCIENCE FICTION SPECIALS won plenty of awards. I'll have to track down this anthology.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-29590556448236483802012-02-03T12:37:04.342-05:002012-02-03T12:37:04.342-05:00Well, Evan, you have to consider the both the inso...Well, Evan, you have to consider the both the insouciant challenge (c'mon, we dare you to read this book) and the straightforward implication (this is the sf so good, or at very least so accessible, that even you the Hater will like this work). I suspect it did well enough in the mid '60s, and F&W kept the paperback around for some time (I believe my copy was secondhand, but it might've been new).Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-31606430268674625922012-02-03T10:46:57.717-05:002012-02-03T10:46:57.717-05:00Titling a book Science Fiction for People who Hate...Titling a book <i>Science Fiction for People who Hate Science Fiction</i> seems a sure-fire recipe for poor sales.Evan Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07620731784654779358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-87432500177560150822012-02-03T10:28:02.918-05:002012-02-03T10:28:02.918-05:00And even the minor stories are worth the look. Car...And even the minor stories are worth the look. Carr and Harrison might not've always reached for the perfect story in their many anthologies (and Harrison might consider doing another, yet), but they only infrequently took in a bad one. (Of course, they'd probably argue it wasn't bad, but they'd be sadly mistaken in a few instances I recall. And they both introduced me to some brilliant stories...as did their predecessors in BOTY annualing in sf, Bleiler and Ditky (augmented, as time went on, by Earl Kemp) and Judith Merril...Bleiler and Merril (and more quietly Kemp) all went on to other impressive anthology work when they hadn't already so engaged...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-21529176176363785582012-02-03T10:16:41.531-05:002012-02-03T10:16:41.531-05:00Some wonderful stories, all right. I still rememb...Some wonderful stories, all right. I still remember reading some of them in the digests and anthologies of the '50s when I was a kid.mybillcriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.com