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Book log: Roger Elwood -- Continuum 1
Sep. 26th, 2010 05:32 pmBook 61
This is the first of a 4 book anthology series, where the series concept is to have a set of four stories from each author, one per volume, which can each be read as individual stand-alone stories, but which together make up a story arc. It was published in 1974 and was edited by Roger Elwood, which is an entertaining and informative tale in itself.
I bought my copy of volume 1 about thirty years ago, and for various reasons (including the dreaded "it was only going to be in storage for a year or two") I probably haven't read it for close to twenty years. Nevertheless, I was surprised to find that I only remembered two of the stories -- the one by Philip Jose Farmer, which I don't actually like very much and don't think works as a standalone; and the story from Anne McCaffrey, which is the first part of what later became The Crystal Singer, and which I've thus read a fair number of times in the novel. The others seem completely unfamiliar to me. This is surprising, because there are some good stories in here. I read a library copy of volume 4 a few years after buying this volume, and can vaguely remember something about the closing stories of only those two authors as well. (I think I liked the Farmer sequence better for having seen the end of the arc.)
( detailed story list under the cut )
LibraryThing entry
This is the first of a 4 book anthology series, where the series concept is to have a set of four stories from each author, one per volume, which can each be read as individual stand-alone stories, but which together make up a story arc. It was published in 1974 and was edited by Roger Elwood, which is an entertaining and informative tale in itself.
I bought my copy of volume 1 about thirty years ago, and for various reasons (including the dreaded "it was only going to be in storage for a year or two") I probably haven't read it for close to twenty years. Nevertheless, I was surprised to find that I only remembered two of the stories -- the one by Philip Jose Farmer, which I don't actually like very much and don't think works as a standalone; and the story from Anne McCaffrey, which is the first part of what later became The Crystal Singer, and which I've thus read a fair number of times in the novel. The others seem completely unfamiliar to me. This is surprising, because there are some good stories in here. I read a library copy of volume 4 a few years after buying this volume, and can vaguely remember something about the closing stories of only those two authors as well. (I think I liked the Farmer sequence better for having seen the end of the arc.)
( detailed story list under the cut )
LibraryThing entry
