The Titan (collection)
The Titan is a collection of science fiction short stories by the American writer P. Schuyler Miller. It was first published by Fantasy Press in 1952 in an edition of 2,069 copies. The stories originally appeared in the magazines Marvel Tales, Astounding, Weird Tales, Amazing Stories and Wonder Stories. Miller recreated and revised the title piece (whose serialization was never finished) from an early longhand draft because the original manuscript had been lost.[1]
 Dust-jacket from the first edition | |
| Author | P. Schuyler Miller |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Hannes Bok |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Fantasy Press |
Publication date | 1952 |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 252 pp |
Contents
- "The Titan"
- "As Never Was"
- "Old Man Mulligan"
- "Spawn"
- "In the Good Old Summertime"
- "Gleeps"
- "The Arrhenius Horror"
- "Forgotten"
Reception
Boucher and McComas gave the collection a mixed review, saying that it included little of Miller's best work, with the remaining stories "a mixed lot in which striking ideas conflict with treatment that is sadly routine."[2]
gollark: So the universe's magic anti-paradox feature is forced to calculate it for you, or this generates some sort of really unlikely failure mode in your computing system.
gollark: 1. receive message from future containing the answer to your problem2. check it (this assumes it's one of the easy-to-check hard-to-answer ones)3. send it back
gollark: You can use informational time travel plus the fixed-timeline thing for hypercomputing, which is neat.
gollark: What I think a lot of settings do is have it so that you can transmit information to the past, but you can't edit history at all - what happened to cause the information to be sent, still happens. It's very confusing and can also be used for computation.
gollark: Er, future→past, I mean.
References
- "The Reference Library", Astounding Science Fiction, May 1953, p.149-50
- "Recommended Reading," F&SF, April 1953, p.99
Sources
- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. pp. 238–239.
- Contento, William G. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections". Retrieved 2008-03-18.
- Tuck, Donald H. (1978). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 312. ISBN 0-911682-22-8.
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