Kate Wilhelm in Orbit - volume One (2015)
Kate Wilhelm in Orbit - volume One
“(Most likely it was at a mystery convention.) They spoke of the short stories they wrote in the 1970s and both of them said, “I’d write more stories like that if there was any market for it nowadays.”
But the 1990s were not the 1970s and venues like Orbit were scarce. Venues like Orbit are scarce in any decade—editors like Damon Knight don’t come along too often. In fact, one of the greatest compliments I’ve received in my career remains the time Kate said to me, “You edit my stories with t...he same sort of care and attention Damon did.”
The Orbit anthologies were published between 1966 and 1980. As it happens, those were the first fourteen years of my life, so I wasn’t reading the books as they were published. Indeed, as these things happen, I only got turned on to science fiction in 1980, due in part to my discovery of another Damon Knight anthology—a book called The Dark Side that I came across in a used bookstore in Carlsbad, New Mexico.MoreLess
But the 1990s were not the 1970s and venues like Orbit were scarce. Venues like Orbit are scarce in any decade—editors like Damon Knight don’t come along too often. In fact, one of the greatest compliments I’ve received in my career remains the time Kate said to me, “You edit my stories with t...he same sort of care and attention Damon did.”
The Orbit anthologies were published between 1966 and 1980. As it happens, those were the first fourteen years of my life, so I wasn’t reading the books as they were published. Indeed, as these things happen, I only got turned on to science fiction in 1980, due in part to my discovery of another Damon Knight anthology—a book called The Dark Side that I came across in a used bookstore in Carlsbad, New Mexico.MoreLess
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