This anthology The Stalin in the Soul by Ursula K. Le Guin; All the Troubles of the World by Isaac Asimov; Home by Poul Anderson; Silent in Gehenna by Harlan Ellison; Shark by Edward Bryant; Flowering Season by Virginia Kidd; A Season for Freedom by Dean R. Koontz; Final War by Barry N. Malzberg; The Mountain by Robert Hoskins; Our Times by Bill Pronzini; The Wind and the Rain by Robert Silverberg; and The Merchants of Venus by Frederik Pohl.
Del Rey / Ballantine, 1978. Mass market paperback, 1st of two printings. This is the third in a trilogy of novels; it follows Master of the Stars (1976) To Control the Stars (1977) This trilogy describes, over a period of aeons, a cluster of galactic civilizations connected by a system of ancient Stargates.
13 • The Bump • Fritz Leiber17 • What We Learned from This Morning's Newspaper • Robert Silverberg36 • Starblood • William F. Nolan49 • The Tempolluters • G.C. Edmondson66 • Ollie's Hands• Dean R. Koontz85 • Merlin Street • W. Macfarlane106 • Audition: Soon to Be a Major Production • Edward Bryant123 • Day Dark, Night Bright • Fritz Leiber126 • By the Time I Get to Phoenix • Thomas N. Scortia135 • Not That Shaggy... • Ron Goulart152 • The Ballad of Slick Sid • Barry N. Malzberg161 • Ding Dong, the Witch Is Well... • Tom Pickens176 • The Foreigner • E. Michael Blake184 • Fountain of Force • George Zebrowski and Grant Carrington193 • Stranger With Roses • John Jakes252 • Fortune Hunter • Poul Anderson266 • Another Cask of Wine • Fritz Leiber
John Psathas has said that, of all New Zealand composers, John Cousins has `thrown the spear furthest', meaning he is one of our most original artists, going beyond the edge. Provocative and penetrating and fundamentally true, Cousins remains absorbed and energised in and by creative work. On the conversations, talks and reflections gathered in this volume, John Cousins speaks of landscape, family, himself, and shares a musical vision of consolation and hope. John Cousins was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1943. He received training as a musician, graduating with an honours degree in music from the University of Canterbury in 1965, and taught there from 1967 to 2004. Over the years his work has evolved from conventional musical composition to sculptural performance, mixed-media and sonic art, and has been performed, broadcast and exhibited in New Zealand, Australia, Britain, Europe, Russia and the USA.