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Before They Were Giants: First Works from Science Fiction Greats

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See how it all began! In Before They Were Giants, editor James L.Sutter collects the first published stories of 15 of science fiction andfantasy's most important authors, including winners of the prestigious Hugo andNebula awards, New York Times bestsellers, and members of the ScienceFiction Hall of Fame. Along with these often rare or never-before-anthologizedstories, all 15 authors provide brand-new retrospective critiques and interviewsdiscussing the stories' geneses, how publication affected their lives, and whatthey know now about writing that they wish they'd known then.
Contributors include Ben Bova, Charles Stross, China Miéville, CoryDoctorow, David Brin, Greg Bear, Joe Haldeman, Kim Stanley Robinson, LarryNiven, Michael Swanwick, Nicola Griffith, Piers Anthony, R. A. Salvatore, SpiderRobinson, and William Gibson.

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ISBN-13:	9781601252661
Publisher:	Paizo Inc.
Publication date:	08/24/2010
Series:	Planet Stories (Paizo Publishing) , #28
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	603,318
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years

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Author Piers Anthony (born Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob) is an English-American author of science fiction and fantasy books. He is best known for his long-running novel series set in the fictional realm of Xanth. In addition to the 40 books in the Xanth series (with two more forthcoming), he has written numerous other science fiction and fantasy series, such as Incarnations of Immortality, and dozens of standalone novels.

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Sutter's primary goal for this anthology is to show the humble beginnings of famous authors so new writers will be less embarrassed by their own early efforts. In this the results are mixed, since many of the 15 stories are impressive. China Miéville's "Highway 61 Revisited" and Nicola Griffith's "Mirrors and Burnstone" make deft use of familiar themes; Kim Stanley Robinson's "In Pierson's Orchestra" and Michael Swanwick's "Ginungagap" are legitimately masterful. More reassuring are the short interviews, which contain helpful advice and humanizing tales of rejection. Sutter limited his invitations to authors who were available to give interviews and hadn't contributed to similar compilations, like Martin Greenberg's recent Wondrous Beginnings and Magical Beginnings; readers may appreciate the lack of crossover but will bemoan the resulting lack of female authors in Sutter's TOC. (Sept.)

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