The Infinity Box

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The Infinity Box
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First edition cover
Author Kate Wilhelm
Cover artistApplebaum & Curtis (design)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Science fiction, fantasy
Publisher Harper & Row
Publication date
1975
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages318
OCLC 1411741
LC Class 74-15894

The Infinity Box is a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by American writer Kate Wilhelm, published in hardcover by Harper & Row in 1975. It was reprinted in paperback by Pocket Books in 1976; a British edition was published by Arrow Books in 1979, and a French translation, Le Village, appeared in 1987. [1] It placed ninth in the annual Locus Poll for best story collection. [2] Four of the nine stories were nominated for the Nebula Award.

Contents

Contents

[N] designates Nebula-nominated stories. [4]

Reception

Spider Robinson declared that Wilhelm "is one of the best practitioners of the short story in or out of sf" and rated all but one of the stories as "thoroughly satisfying, some of them superb." [5] The New York Times described the book as a "collection of innovative short stories." [6]

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