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[james_davis_nicoll]

[Poll #1666955]

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[dd-b.livejournal.com]

And I still remember it very fondly.

[autopope.livejournal.com]

I would be likelier to have heard of it (and read it) if it was published in the UK.

[rpresser.livejournal.com]

Something strange about that syntax "I would be likelier". How can a real live person be any likelier than they already are?

[(Anonymous)]

I do not understand this quibble. "Likelier" is a regularly-formed intensification of "likely".

--
NPH

[cmattg.livejournal.com]

No "I know I've read some of the stories but definitely not all."?

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

And now I want to read it.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

(Though I have read a bunch of the stories elsewhere. But certainly not the Bates, say. or the Cartmill.)

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Same here. I've read about two thirds of the stories in it, and the rest also sound good.

[johnreiher.livejournal.com]

I think I have a copy. It was reissued when I was at my worst in buying books and reading voraciously.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

I bought a copy then, but it went away in one of the many library purges. Hence my eagerness for it to be reissued in e-book format.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I always keep the anthologies because there are some stories that will never be elsewhere.

[scentofviolets.livejournal.com]

Sigh. My purchases of books, new, used or otherwise is way down for precisely that reason. If I ever buy a bigger house, it will be because I need more room for My Stuff. And while e-books are a space-easy alternative, it's just not the same for the older material (this may be an idiosyncrasy, but for some reason the same does not apply for anything published after, oh, 1995 in electronic format.)

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

"Some other option" -- may well have read it and enjoyed it but I forgot . . .

No cats.

[slrose.livejournal.com]

This.

[agharta75.livejournal.com]

Yes, there are cats! Coeurl in "Black Destroyer", for one.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Well, you see, that's part of the not remembering thing . . .

[daev.livejournal.com]

My dad had a copy of it. It was my first introduction to science fiction, although I wasn't able to appreciate all the stories the first time. I must have been about 9 years old when I first read it! It's just a great, mind-spinning collection of '30s and '40s classics. I think that's part of the reason I've never been bothered by "anachronism" in science fiction: I never thought of it as predicting my real-world future, since it was already 40-50 years out of date when I discovered it.

[dsrtao]

I have heard of it, haven't read it -- but it appears that I've read all but five of the entries in it, if W'pedia is correct.

[badger.livejournal.com]

I have read most of the stories in the list on wikipedia separately, but I honestly don't remember seeing this anthology before these posts.

[elizaeffect.livejournal.com]

I own two different editions and love it to bits.

[elizaeffect.livejournal.com]

Not literally to bits. Someone else did that already. Someday I will find one with the dust jacket at least partially intact, grr.

[pperiwinkle.livejournal.com]

I had forgotten about it, but I remember there being a worn and smelly copy in the library when I was young and new to reading science fiction.

[kgbooklog.livejournal.com]

I heard of it from rasfw, I think prior to the thread that prompted this poll.

[refugee50s.livejournal.com]

I've read most of the stories in it, and some are among my favorites, but I don't recall hearing of this particular collection, no.

[ravenskyewalker.livejournal.com]

I had probably heard of it before, but had likely forgotten, so I think my vagueness counts as "some other option."

[seawasp]

I think I've read it but I can't be sure; a lot of the stories in there have been reprinted in many places.

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

It was reissued when I was 7 years old, very nearly the perfect time. I remember taking it to school and one of the teachers there helping me to reinforce the cover with clear contact paper. (I don't still have that copy, alas.)

[elsue.livejournal.com]

Just went over to the Wikipedia entry, confident I would have read most of them--not at all! Now I also want a new edition (e or otherwise)!

[jennlk]

I've read most of the stories in it, but not all. The library had a copy which I used to peruse while sitting behind the check out desk.

(I do, however, have two copies of the fannish cookbook entitled "Adventures in Thyme and Spice" (or "Adventures in Spice and Thyme", depending on whether one believes the title or the copyright notice).)

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

K is talking about doing a sequel to that book.

[jennlk]

That would be very cool. :)

[glinda-w.livejournal.com]

It was the first SF book I read, the only SF book my father had a copy of; this was sometime in the mid- to late-50's. See also "hardcover books lost in 1972 flood" - took me what seemed like forever to track it down. Especially since I couldn't actually remember the title or editors, just most of the stories. (There are books I recommend to friends, and books I loan to friends. Adventures in Time and Space does not leave this apartment.)

[(Anonymous)]

One of the first SF collections I read: in my middle-school library, IIRC. I currently have a copy I got off the internet (I found one of the partial reprints in a used bookstore and remembered: hey, I read this. And there were more stories, too...). Alas, the spine is now a bit torn up due to a misbehavin' new dog.

Bruce

[death4breakfast.livejournal.com]

It really is a classic, there's some must-read stuff in there, stuff that

I first got a copy of this at age 12 or so (In the late 70's.) as part of a gifted program college course in Science Fiction I took...unfortunately it was a paperback edition, and disintegrated over time. I'd loved the book though and had always wanted to read it again, and a few years ago was lucky enough to find a used hardback copy available on Amazon. So, it now sits in a place of honor on my bookshelf.

It really is a classic, and at the time and age I read it, heavy duty imagination fuel.

In re-reading recently, some of the stories have held up well and some, sadly, have not. But I'd still recommend it as a very worth while view of where science fiction really came from as a genre.

[asyouknow-bob.livejournal.com]

I bought my copy NEW (full-price retail, even!) when I was in HS in the early '70s. I think I had read it substantially earlier, out of the library.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I might have come across a copy of this at some point, and read some of the stories I remember from it there. But it's also possible that I found them elsewhere.

A formative experience for me was reading a thick anthology that was compiled later, which I think had "All You Zombies" and John Varley's "In the Bowl" and William Tenn's "Child's Play" and Phil Dick's "Impostor" in it. I think it was one of the Arbor House books. Up to that point I had read a lot of Isaac Asimov, Heinlein's "The Rolling Stones", and maybe Lem's "Cyberiad" and a few other things, but my reading of other classic SF was sparse.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

...Yeah, it was "The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction", from 1980. Also had "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard" and "The Women Men Don't See" and "The Shadow of Space" and "When It Changed"; almost every story in it is either brilliant, or, if not brilliant, important, or both.

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

I have heard of it - in r.a.sf.w, then here; I don't own a copy. I have NO idea whether or not I've ever read it. I would happily buy a paperback edition, and quite possibly a trade paperback one, were one available at the stores. If it happened to get attached to my next checking-out-of-library experience, I'd read it. Thus, "some other option"...

--Dave, I could be more vague