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The Best of Lester del Rey

por Lester del Rey

Otros autores: Frederik Pohl (Prólogo)

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The Pyrotechnics of Lester del Rey SF's most protean personality--writer, editor, critic, publisher--sets off an incomparable fireworks display in these tales of robots and humans, animals and aliens, ghosts and gods, science and the supernatural . . . HELEN O'LOY If you want an ideal mate, build her! HEREAFTER, INC. This is Heaven? The hell it is! LITTLE JIMMY The invisible kid was a ghost for sure. But whose? INSTINCT The robots labored to re-create the extinct human species-- but there was one element they somehow left out. FOR I AM A JEALOUS PEOPLE "In God We Trust" is a great motto--until you find you can't. And much more!… (más)
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Title: The Best of Lester Del Rey
Series: ----------
Authors: Lester Del Rey
Rating: 0.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: SF Short Story Collection
Pages: 350 DNF / 259
Words: 130K DNF / 96K

Synopsis:

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"The Magnificent" [introduction] (Frederik Pohl)

"Helen O'Loy" (from Astounding Science-Fiction, Dec. 1938)

"The Day Is Done" (from Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1939)

"The Coppersmith" (from Unknown, Sep. 1939)

"Hereafter, Inc." (from Unknown Worlds, Dec. 1941)

"The Wings of Night" (from Astounding Science-Fiction, Mar. 1942)

"Into Thy Hands" (from Astounding Science Fiction, Aug. 1945)

"And It Comes Out Here" (from Galaxy Science Fiction, Feb. 1951)

"The Monster" (from Argosy, Jun. 1951)

"The Years Draw Nigh" (from Astounding Science Fiction, Oct. 1951)

"Instinct" (from Astounding Science Fiction, Jan. 1952)

"Superstition" (from Astounding Science Fiction, Aug. 1954)

"For I Am a Jealous People!" (from Star Short Novels, Oct. 1954)

"The Keepers of the House" (from Fantastic Universe, Jan. 1956)

"Little Jimmy" (from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Apr. 1957)

"The Seat of Judgment" (from Venture Science Fiction Magazine, Jul. 1957)

"Vengeance Is Mine" (from Galaxy Magazine, Dec, 1964)

"Author's Afterword"

My Thoughts:

Several of these stories made quite clear what Del Rey thought about Christianity as a whole but I was able to read past them. Then I got to “For I Am a Jealous People” and it got downright blasphemous. I was teetering on dnf'ing and trying to make up my mind when another sentence hit me. A character is talking about the Bible and God and says something like “I just wish I knew where Jesus fit into all of this”. That did it. The Bible is crystal clear that Jesus is the second person of the Godhead, is not a created being AND is the only way for humanity to get to heaven. It was obvious that Del Rey knew exactly what he was doing as his deliberate misuse of Scripture by a character showed his was very familiar with it.

So dnf'd at 74% and 1/2star for blasphemy.

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  BookstoogeLT | Jul 26, 2022 |
4/5/22
  laplantelibrary | Apr 5, 2022 |
Lester del Rey's the kind of writer I might've read in my early teens (but didn't) & then decided that he represented the kind of SF that all SF seemed to me to be at the time: sortof interesting but not that well written or experimental. I wd've then moved on - remembering him w/ some affection but not in any hurry to read more.

Now that I'm 44 yrs past my early teens, del Rey still strikes me that way but I've read so many other things by now that I can respect del Rey just for being what he was: a somewhat generic, but still inspired, SF writer.

The history of SF, in the US at least, seems to be often grouped in periods determined by the tastes of the influential magazine & anthology editors of the time. In this case, del Rey falls fairly firmly in the John W. Campbell / Astounding Science Fiction era. These stories range from 1938 to 1964.

There're alotof robots. I like del Rey's robot stories. But even more important to me personally, there's alotof picking away at the religious fanaticism of the ilk that I grew up w/. "For I am a Jealous People!" was one of my favorites here. Extraterrestrials attack Earth w/ the apparent intention of wiping out humanity. Why? It's discovered that they, in fact, worship the same GOD that the Reverend Amos Strong, the protagonist, but that GOD is on their side & has instructed & empowered them to wipe out humanity, the great sinner. Ha ha! What a moral dilemma for the reverend!

These stories contain much of the content that helped shape the ethics & concerns of young boys (primarily but not entirely) growing up in the 40s, 50s, & 60s - humanity wiping itself out w/ atomic warfare (or whatever), eg. & I was right there w/ them. ( )
  tENTATIVELY | Apr 3, 2022 |
SF
  stevholt | Nov 19, 2017 |
Indeholder "Frederik Pohl: Introduction. The Magnificent", "Helen O'Loy", "The Day Is Done", "The Coppersmith", "Hereafter Inc.", "The Wings of Night", "Into Thy Hands", "And It Comes Out Here", "The Monster", "The Years Draw Nigh", "Instinct", "Superstition", "For I Am a Jealous People!", "Keepers of the House", "Little Jimmy", "The Seat of Judgment", "Vengeance Is Mine", "Lester del Rey: Author's Afterword".

"Frederik Pohl: Introduction. The Magnificent" handler om ???
"Helen O'Loy" handler om Dave, der køber en standardrobot og omprogrammerer den til hans billede af en perfekt hustru, Helen O'Loy. Hun bliver forelsket i ham og efter nogen tid bliver han også forelsket i hende og de lever lykkeligt sammen til han en dag dør. Dave's ven Phil har aldrig giftet sig, for der var jo kun een Helen O'Loy.
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"Lester del Rey: Author's Afterword" handler om de forskellige noveller, hvoraf flere egentlig stammer fra Campbell, som flittigt delte ud af sine ideer til andre. I efterskriften afslører forfatteren også at han bedst kan lide Helen O'Loy for det var den anden historie han solgte og dermed beviste den at han havde mere end en enkelt historie i sig. I det hele taget virker han som et beskedent menneske. ( )
  bnielsen | Mar 2, 2013 |
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Lester del Reyautor principaltodas las edicionescalculado
Pohl, FrederikPrólogoautor secundariotodas las edicionesconfirmado
Berni, OlivieroArtista de Cubiertaautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
Brooks, TerryIntroducciónautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
Malsch, EvaTraductorautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
Orosz, IstvánArtista de Cubiertaautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
van Dongen, H. R.Artista de Cubiertaautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
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The Pyrotechnics of Lester del Rey SF's most protean personality--writer, editor, critic, publisher--sets off an incomparable fireworks display in these tales of robots and humans, animals and aliens, ghosts and gods, science and the supernatural . . . HELEN O'LOY If you want an ideal mate, build her! HEREAFTER, INC. This is Heaven? The hell it is! LITTLE JIMMY The invisible kid was a ghost for sure. But whose? INSTINCT The robots labored to re-create the extinct human species-- but there was one element they somehow left out. FOR I AM A JEALOUS PEOPLE "In God We Trust" is a great motto--until you find you can't. And much more!

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