The ninth in a series of superb science fiction.The Alpha series of anthologies center on no particular theme except that of literary quality and importance to the science fiction genre.The ALPHA seriesnow in its ninth volumehas by now become an eightinch shelf of the best in short sciencefiction stories. Our editorial bias is doggedly middleoftheroad, or so we like to think that is, (writes renowned editor Robert Silverberg) I try to avoid the worst excesses of the avantgarde on the one hand, and the blastandslash foolishness of pulp adventure fiction on the other. Of course, one readers traditional and staid is anothers wild experimentalismvery likely the fans of Hugo Gernsbacks pioneering Amazing Stories of the 1920s muttered angrily in their soup over the gaudy innovations of John Campbells Astounding Science Fiction in 1939and so the best I can do is provide a sampler of the sort of science fiction that pleases me, that defines by example what I think science fiction ought to be, and hope that others will agree.Herewith, another such treasury of bright, sparkling, imaginative fiction!(Note, Alpha 9 is the final volume produced.)DUMB WAITERThe war was over, but nobody had bothered to tell the machines...THE FUNERALIt was quite a ceremony after all, it was a world that had died...THE SLICEDCROSSWISE ONLYONTUESDAY WORLDMan could travel between the stars, but not between the Days...GOODLIFEThe Starship was as ancient as Time itself, but it still remembered its mission...

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