Reception
Algis Budrys in Galaxy Magazine takes the editor, who "writes better than most people," to task for an introduction full of "canned-brain cliches," opining that "[t]his business of making up intros and footnotes and hindnotes last year made Nebula Two's editors ridiculous, and the poetastic aegis is obviously even more powerful than previously suspected, if it could clench this worm of nonsense out of someone with Zelazny's qualities." He is happier with the fictional content; "[t]he stories in his book, thank God, give the lie to the essential sterility of talking about literature," noting the Delany, Leiber, and Moorcock pieces "did win Nebulas," and the McCaffery, Ballard, Ellison and Wright" pieces "were heavily nominated, and clearly had enough stature to win." The last two "might in fact, easily strike you as the best story in the book, either one." [2]
P. Schuyler Miller in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact also praises the stories, calling the Moorcock and Delany pieces "excellent off-track science fiction," with the former "a strange and powerful time-travel story" and the latter "written with the understanding and good taste that you always get from Delany." He singles out the Wright piece as "an excellent—and rare—future sport story" of "powered one-man sledding as a cruel, soul-destroying 'sport' of the future [that] will convince you that a good mechanic could build one of the sleds tomorrow." The other stories are characterized briefly. Miller notes the McCaffrey piece, in addition to being a Nebula runner-up, had won the Hugo Award; the Leiber piece is dismissed as fantasy, as are the "other runner-ups," which he feels are "well done but not Analog fodder." [3]
The anthology was also reviewed by Bruce Gillespie in SF Commentary #4, 1969 (reprinted in SF Commentary Reprint Edition: First Year 1969, 1982), and Gordon Johnson in Vector 52, Winter/Spring 1969. [1]
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