This book has the highest hit rate of authors I'd heard of , and the most affecting story was 'Subcommittee' by Zena Henderson - again not a People story, though they would most assuredly fit in this anthology. A rather surprising exclusion in my opinion was Doctor Asimov's own story 'Red', which would have been a perfect fit. None were bad though 'Lloyd Biggle Jr's 'Who's On First' was a bit too involved with baseball to really hold my attention. ( )

Contiene dieci storie di fantascienza con protagonisti dei giovani alieni... Molto rilassante e scorrevole. ( )

I thoroughly enjoyed this book when I first read it when I was young. In rereading it again as an adult, I'm even more impressed with how very good these stories are.

Some are better than others, of course, but even the stories that I can't quite call my favorites are very well written and quite worth the read. Most of the stories had lingered in my memory, but one passage in particular remained quite clear:

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My favorite stories from this anthology include: "Doorstep" by Keith Laumer, wherein the last line of the story is hinged the entire profound; "The Witness" by Eric Frank Russell, partly because of 'No! You don't mean to say they had minds of their own!'; "Primary Education of the Camiroi" by R.A. Lafferty, who obviously had entirely too much fun writing it; "Zoo" by Edward D. Hoch, with the classically-scifi application of ellipses to the ending; and "Subcommittee" by Zenna Henderson, for sheer vivid imagery and depth of underlying implications.

It hadn't struck me when I first read this book how old the stories were. I had taken them as modern 90s creations because I had first read them in the early 90s, but the anthology was printed in the early 80s and the stories themselves were first published in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. This means that these stories were selected for this anthology because they were the editors' best and favorite of all that fit with this anthology theme; they weren't written specifically to be printed in this anthology. I think it's given the quality of the anthology a heft it wouldn't have had otherwise. And I also want to track down the other five books in Asimov's Young anthology set and see if the stories in those books are as good as the stories in this one. ( )