![]() Foster is one of the legion of authors who were influenced by Russell. This is the only piece in the collection that is not by Russell. “ The Symbiote of Hooton,” essay by Alan Dean Foster Although he was definitely aware of humanity’s darker tendencies, he himself appears to have been an essentially humane man who rejected easy, violent solutions to impediments. Russell’s fiction could be weird in the Unknown manner sometimes it was Fortean sometimes it was superficially conventional pulp SF of the sort that was at home in Astounding and other pulp magazines. Most of Russell’s stories appeared between the late 1930s and the late 1950s only a handful of his works were published after 1959. This Eric Frank Russell collection was one of those books, and one of the better purchases I made in 1978. ![]() I very quickly learned to snap up anything from Ballantine (and later, Del Rey) whose title was of the form “The Best of ”. ![]() ![]() ![]() Under various series names, Ballantine’s Classic Library of Science Fiction collected the short works of various pulp-age notables, authors of whom I might otherwise have remained ignorant. This is intended, not just as a tribute to an author whose work I remember fondly, but also as a tribute to a line of single author collections that had a huge impact on me when I was a teenager. ![]()
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