What Thin Partitions
What Thin Partitions
“says writer, critic and Nebula award winner Barry Maltzberg. Unfortunately Mark Clifton (1906-63) wrote only a handful of short stories, beginning with “What Have I Done?” in 1952, and four novels during the all too brief writing career that ended with his death in 1963. Many of his stories have been selected for various “best of” anthologies both before and after his passing. Among them are “What Have I Done?,” “Star Bright,” “We're Civilized,” “A Woman's Place,” “What Now, Little Man?,” and “Hang Head, Vandal.” Of his four novels, They'd Rather Be Right, with collaborator Frank Riley, won the 1955 Hugo Award, and one, the four novelettes that comprise What Thin Partitions was never issued in book form, due to his untimely and unanticipated passing (although, strangely, its sequel, When they Come from Space, was published in hardcover).Clifton spent most of his adult life in various forms of personnel work, compiling over 200,000 profiles, and what these revealed to him about human n...ature formed one of the major themes of his fiction.MoreLess
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