Protostars

Protostars

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name = Protostars
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author = edited by David Gerrold and Stephen Goldin
cover_artist = Gene Szafran
country = United States
language = English
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genre = Science fiction short stories
publisher = Ballantine Books
release_date = 1971
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = x, 271 pp.
isbn = ISBN 0-345-02393-5
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"Protostars" is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by David Gerrold and Stephen Goldin. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books in October 1971, and has been reprinted a number of times since.

The book collects sixteen novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, including a few by the editors, with an introduction by Gerrold.

Contents

*"A Sort of Introduction" (David Gerrold)
*"What Makes a Cage, Jamie Knows" (Scott Bradfield)
*"I'll Be Waiting for You When the Swimming Pool is Empty" (James Tiptree, Jr.)
*"In a Sky of Daemons" (L. Yep)
*"The Last Ghost" (Stephen Goldin)
*"Afternoon with a Dead Bus" (David Gerrold)
*"Eyes of Onyx" (Edward Bryant)
*"The World Where Wishes Worked" (Stephen Goldin)
*"Cold, the Fire of the Phoenix" (Leo P. Kelley)
*"Oasis" (Pamela Sargent)
*"Holdholtzer's Box" (David R. Bunch)
*"The Five-Dimensional Sugar Cube" (Roger Deeley)
*"And Watch the Smog Roll In..." (Barry Weissman)
*"Chances Are" (Alice Laurance)
*" The Naked and the Unashamed" (Robert E. Margroff)
*" My Country, Right or Wrong" (Andrew J. Offutt)
*"Side Effect" (Pg Wyal)


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