Hello!
I beg your pardon? James E. Gunn is that kind of writer and editor,
but he did not write that Star Trek novel, he actually finished it
from a Ted Sturgeon treatise which might have become a third season
episode. And it was the only work that did not turn out badly because
of that. Oh and Pocket Books were always Star Trek's real publisher
after wresting it away from Bantam. Let's leave Star Trek out of this
list,
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On Thu, May 28, 2026 at 1:01 PM David Sooby <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, May 28, 2026 at 11:07 AM pzmcgwire - pzmcgwire at yahoo.com (via H_Beam_Piper list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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>> I just picked up this 1975 Hugo winning book, Alternate Worlds, The Illustrated History of Science Fiction by James Gunn and saw no mention of Piper.
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>> This was the first edition, so hopefully it was rectified in the more recent editions, but was Piper's omission that glaring for 1975?
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>
> I'd say it's not at all surprising for that editor, James E. Gunn.  He's a member of academia, and into "serious" science fiction.  I have his "The Road to Science Fiction" anthology series; it's a pretty good, wide-ranging selection covering the history of SF.  (Contrariwise, his Star Trek novel "The Joy Machine" — published before Pocket Books took over the franchise and greatly improved the editorial standards — is abysmal.)  But writers whose stories were written primarily for entertainment, such as Piper wrote, simply aren't on Gunn's radar.
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> And to be fair, Piper's body of work isn't extensive enough for him to be considered a "major" writer.  It's a double tragedy that Piper started his writing career so late, in his early forties, and that his life ended so early.
>
> —David Sooby
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