Best of
Science-Fiction-Fantasy
1973
The Smallest Dragonboy
Anne McCaffrey - 1973
It tells of Keevan, a boy who is a candidate for Ramoth's latest clutch in Benden Weyr. Keevan is shorter than the other candidates, and is teased about this by Beterli, a boy who has stood for eight Impressions and has not been chosen. Keevan works hard but his size leads most to underestimate his abilities. When he overhears some of the senior dragonriders talking about dropping some of the younger candidates from the Impression, Keevan automatically thinks he will be dropped.Was included in Get off The Unicorn collection.
The Best of Isaac Asimov (Doubleday science fiction)
Isaac Asimov - 1973
First published in Britain the previous year. STORIES: Marooned Off Vesta (1939); Nightfall (1941); The C-Chute (1951); The Martian Way (1952); The Deep (1952); The Fun They Had (1951); The Last Question (1956); The Dead Past (1956); The Dying Night (1956); Anniversary (1959); The Billiard Ball (1967); Mirror Image (1972).
To Ride Pegasus
Anne McCaffrey - 1973
A talented, elite cadre, they stepped out of the everyday human race...to enter their own!
The Best of Robert Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein - 1973
CONTENTS:Life-Line The Roads Must Roll '--And He Built a Crooked House--' The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag The Green Hills of Earth The Long Watch The Man Who Sold the Moon '--All You Zombies--'
The Hidden Cave
Ruth Chew - 1973
A moment later the tail disappeared. Tom climbed the slippery bank to the place where the dog had been. He pushed aside the vines that hung down from the rocky ledge."Al!" Tom yelled to his sister. "Guess what I found!"
Time Enough for Love
Robert A. Heinlein - 1973
Heinlein's longest and most ambitious work, it is the story of a man so in love with Life that he refused to stop living it; and so in love with Time that he became his own ancestor.
Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: First Book
G.I. Gurdjieff - 1973
One of a three set collection.
For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga
Robert Sobel - 1973
The outcome of one battle in the American Revolution diverges from reality, and sparks an unstoppable chain of events which affects the history of the whole North American continent. In reality, the British general John Burgoyne, heavily outnumbered by American troops, surrendered his army to General Horatio Gates at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, a major turning-point of the Revolution. Robert Sobel takes a step sideways and presents the alternative version: reinforcements arrive at Saratoga, Gates' men flee, and Burgoyne is victorious. Rather than openly allying itself with the American rebels, France withdraws its support, as does Spain, and the colonies surrender. Those former rebels who refuse to live in the Confederation of North America established by the British leave their homes and settle in what becomes the United States of Mexico. From then on the two continental nations find themselves constant rivals, locked in military, political and economic conflict. Sobel provides a detailed, intricately documented insight into two warring powers that develop in such dramatically different ways from their shared origins.