The Star Road

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The Star Road
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Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author Gordon R. Dickson
Cover artistBill Naegels
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Science fiction
Publisher Doubleday
Publication date
1973
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages229
ISBN 0-385-06811-5
OCLC 609366
813/.5/4
LC Class PZ4.D553 St PS3554.I328

The Star Road is a collection of science fiction stories by American writer Gordon R. Dickson. It was first published by Doubleday in 1973. The stories originally appeared in the magazines Amazing Stories , Astounding , Analog Science Fiction and Fact , Galaxy Science Fiction , Worlds of Tomorrow and Fantasy and Science Fiction .

Science fiction Genre of speculative fiction

Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that has been called the "literature of ideas". It typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, time travel, parallel universes, fictional worlds, space exploration, and extraterrestrial life. It often explores the potential consequences of scientific innovations.

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Doubleday is an American publishing company. It was founded as the Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 and was the largest in the United States by 1947. It published the work of mostly U.S. authors under a number of imprints and distributed them through its own stores. In 2009 Doubleday merged with Knopf Publishing Group to form the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, which is now part of Penguin Random House. In 2019 the official website presents Doubleday as an imprint, not a publisher.

Contents

Contents

Reception

Theodore Sturgeon declared The Star Road to be "nine fine stories [from] one of the better, solid, reliable storytellers around." [1]

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References

  1. "Galaxy Bookshelf", Galaxy Science Fiction , September 1973, p.88

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