{ "item_title" : "Alpha 9", "item_author" : [" Robert Silverberg "], "item_description" : "The ninth in a series of superb science fiction.The Alpha series of anthologies center on no particular theme except that of literary quality and importance to the science fiction genre.The ALPHA series-now in its ninth volume-has by now become an eight-inch shelf of the best in short science-fiction stories. Our editorial bias is doggedly middle-of-the-road, or so we like to think; that is, (writes renowned editor Robert Silverberg) I try to avoid the worst excesses of the avant-garde on the one hand, and the blast-and-slash foolishness of pulp adventure fiction on the other. Of course, one reader's traditional and staid is another's wild experimentalism-very likely the fans of Hugo Gernsback's pioneering Amazing Stories of the 1920's muttered angrily in their soup over the gaudy innovations of John Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction in 1939-and so the best I can do is provide a sampler of the sort of science fiction that pleases me, that defines by example what I think science fiction ought to be, and hope that others will agree.Herewith, another such treasury of bright, sparkling, imaginative fiction(Note, Alpha 9 is the final volume produced.)DUMB WAITER:The war was over, but nobody had bothered to tell the machines...THE FUNERAL:It was quite a ceremony; after all, it was a world that had died...THE SLICED-CROSSWISE ONLY-ON-TUESDAY WORLD:Man could travel between the stars, but not between the Days...GOODLIFE:The Starship was as ancient as Time itself, but it still remembered its mission: DESTROY MANTHE DUSTY ZEBRA:There are certain problems involved in setting up an inter-dimensional trading post...NOBODY'S HOME:The children are tired of chasing the sun. They want cruelty, glory and dirt...And mo", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/836/263/9798362634834_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "16.99", "online_price" : "16.99", "our_price" : "16.99", "club_price" : "16.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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