Galactic Empires, Volume One & Volume Two edited by Brian W. Aldiss

[james_davis_nicoll]

Two disco-era anthologies with a unifying theme made clear by the title.

Galactic Empires, Volume One & Volume Two edited by Brian W. Aldiss

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I was outraged to find out that many of the stories in Galactic Empires did not include Galactic Empires! :)

I have at least one of these in my library. I still have fond memories of "Voyage of the Space Beagle" and a number of van Vogt short stories, which perhaps indicates I shouldn't reread them.

[jsburbidge]

Because it takes place in space and away from other human societies, it has fewer potential problems than many if Van Vogt's stories. It reads well as long as one ignores the fact that Nexialism Does Not Work in the real world, where it rapidly becomes "interdisciplinary studies".