Date: 2025-03-09 04:58 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] thewayne
Could these be about empires that span, dare I say it, galaxies?

Date: 2025-03-09 05:15 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] patrick_morris_miller

I have the suspicion that more than one of these stories ends with a Tomato Surprise.

Date: 2025-03-09 09:04 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] oh6

I'm pretty sure I read Immigrant in one Simak anthology or another. I definitely read "The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal", "The Possessed", "Been a Long, Long time" (not sure how it fit Aldiss' criteria), "Beep", and "The Bounty Hunter" (though I don't remember much, if any, of it.)

Thanks to the mention of Hugh Laurie in the context of Sector General, I now know one role he's played, as opposed to my previous understanding of him as "some actor or other."

Date: 2025-03-09 09:36 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] estrevan
Homophobic and transphobic though it is, I’ve always thought The Crime and Glory of Commander Suzdal was one of the better Instrumentality stories. It feels authentically strange, and the the way the story’s framed and told is interesting. And I guess there’s at least some interest in seeing anything about gender in that period of American SF

Date: 2025-03-10 12:24 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] chrysostom
All I remember is a terrible joke in a Poul Anderson story.

Date: 2025-03-10 10:41 pm (UTC)
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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.

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