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"content": "<p>One of the delights of reviewing is following the development of a good idea through many decades. Take, for example, the progeny of Frederik Pohl’s <i>Star Science Fiction</i> anthologies.</p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2074\" src=\"https://seattlein2025.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/STARSFS1953-166x256.jpg\" alt=\"The cover of Star Science Fiction Stories, with art of an space suited astronaut on a rocky alien landscape, and listing sixteen authors and editor Frederik Pohl.\" width=\"166\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https://seattlein2025.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/STARSFS1953-166x256.jpg 166w, https://seattlein2025.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/STARSFS1953-333x512.jpg 333w, https://seattlein2025.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/STARSFS1953.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" /><span id=\"ref1\">The</span> first <i>Star</i> anthology appeared in 1953. Five more volumes, as well as a collection of “short novels,” as they were called then (novellas now), followed, as well as a selection of the best stories, published as <i>Star of Stars</i> [<a title=\"Footnote 1\" href=\"#fn1\">1</a>]. The quality of Pohl’s anthologies is impressive; flipping through my copies reveals classic stories such as Arthur C. Clarke’s “The Nine Billion Names of God,” Jerome Bixby’s “It’s a Good Life,” and Fritz Leiber’s “Space-Time For Springers.” <span id=\"ref2\">It’s</span> a shame the series is out of print [<a title=\"Footnote 2\" href=\"#fn2\">2</a>].</p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2075\" src=\"https://seattlein2025.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/STELLAR4F1974-159x256.jpg\" alt=\"The cover of Stellar 1, with art of a giant numeral one against a red sky with two suns, with a rocketship in front of the one and a pod blasting off in the background, listing nine authors and editor Judy-Lynn del Rey.\" width=\"159\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https://seattlein2025.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/STELLAR4F1974-159x256.jpg 159w, https://seattlein2025.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/STELLAR4F1974.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" />In 1974, Judy-Lynn del Rey’s <i>Stellar 1</i> appeared. <i>Stellar 1</i> was followed by six sequels, as well as a novella anthology, <i>Stellar Short Novels</i>. The parallels with Pohl’s series are no coincidence. As del Rey explains in her introduction to her <i>Stellar Short Novels</i>, she very much had Pohl’s <i>Star Science Fiction</i> in mind when she created her series. <span id=\"ref3\">Del</span> Rey’s purpose was to prove there was still a market for straightforward adventure fiction [<a title=\"Footnote 3\" href=\"#fn3\">3</a>]. While the result wasn’t quite as noteworthy as Pohl’s, it did foreshadow the manner in which the Del Rey imprint provided reliably entertaining material.</p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2076\" src=\"https://seattlein2025.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/STRLT1996B-173x256.jpg\" alt=\"The cover of Starlight 1, with art of a giant moon over a mountainous wooded landscape, listing editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden.\" width=\"173\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https://seattlein2025.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/STRLT1996B-173x256.jpg 173w, https://seattlein2025.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/STRLT1996B.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" />Lately we’ve had Patrick Nielsen Hayden’s <i>Starlight</i> series (1996—2001). The parallels with <i>Star Science Fiction</i> are weaker. There were only two subsequent volumes of <i>Starlight</i> anthologies. However, Nielsen Hayden namechecks <i>Star</i> in his introduction. Furthermore, the quality of the <i>Starlight</i> anthologies is as exemplary as Pohl’s. <span id=\"ref4\">It</span> is of such quality that one reviewer [<a title=\"Footnote 4\" href=\"#fn4\">4</a>] bizarrely recommended that one not buy the <i>Starlight</i> books themselves because the contents were so good that they would surely appear in various annual Best SF collections. This sort of advice is not how you get more installments, people.</p><p>I wouldn’t be surprised to discover <i>Star Science Fiction</i> had more progeny. In fact, I’d be delighted to find out that it did.</p><hr /><p><span id=\"fn1\">1</span>: Known as <i>Star Fourteen</i> in the UK, which might have sent readers off on wild goose chases for Stars Seven through Thirteen.</p><p>There was also a one-off <i>Star</i> magazine, released about the time the American News Company was liquidated. ANC distributed about half of the magazines sold in the U.S. before the liquidation, which may be why there was no issue number two. <a title=\"Return to reference 1\" href=\"#ref1\">⤴️</a></p><p><span id=\"fn2\">2</span>: Thanks to the huge print runs common when the 1970s editions of the <i>Star Science Fiction</i> anthologies appeared, I still see a copy or two when I peruse used bookstores. <a title=\"Return to reference 2\" href=\"#ref2\">⤴️</a></p><p><span id=\"fn3\">3</span>: I’d remembered <i>Stellar 1</i> as a counter-reaction to the New Wave, but rereading reveals that del Rey was vexed at academics for some reason. <a title=\"Return to reference 3\" href=\"#ref3\">⤴️</a></p><p><span id=\"fn4\">4</span>: Not me. <a title=\"Return to reference 4\" href=\"#ref4\">⤴️</a></p><div class=\"saboxplugin-wrap\" itemtype=\"http://schema.org/Person\" itemscope itemprop=\"author\"><div class=\"saboxplugin-tab\"><div class=\"saboxplugin-gravatar\"></div><div class=\"saboxplugin-authorname\"><a href=\"https://seattlein2025.org/author/james/\" class=\"vcard author\" rel=\"author\"><span class=\"fn\">James Davis Nicoll</span></a></div><div class=\"saboxplugin-desc\"><div itemprop=\"description\"><p>James Davis Nicoll is a book reviewer and five-time Hugo finalist, four-time Aurora finalist, and CSFFA Hall of Fame nominee. His work can be found at <a href=\"https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/\">James Nicoll Reviews</a>.</p></div></div><div class=\"clearfix\"></div></div></div><p><a href=\"https://seattlein2025.org/2024/11/08/fantastic-fiction-star-stellar-starlight/\" class=\"status-link unhandled-link\">https://seattlein2025.org/2024/11/08/fantastic-fiction-star-stellar-starlight/</a></p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://seattlein2025.org/tag/frederik-pohl/\">#FrederikPohl</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://seattlein2025.org/tag/judy-lynn-del-rey/\">#JudyLynnDelRey</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://seattlein2025.org/tag/patrick-nielsen-hayden/\">#PatrickNielsenHayden</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://seattlein2025.org/tag/star-science-fiction/\">#StarScienceFiction</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://seattlein2025.org/tag/starlight/\">#Starlight</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://seattlein2025.org/tag/stellar/\">#Stellar</a></p>",
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"en": "<p>One of the delights of reviewing is following the development of a good idea through many decades. Take, for example, the progeny of Frederik Pohl’s <i>Star Science Fiction</i> anthologies.</p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2074\" src=\"https://seattlein2025.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/STARSFS1953-166x256.jpg\" alt=\"The cover of Star Science Fiction Stories, with art of an space suited astronaut on a rocky alien landscape, and listing sixteen authors and editor Frederik Pohl.\" width=\"166\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https://seattlein2025.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/STARSFS1953-166x256.jpg 166w, https://seattlein2025.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/STARSFS1953-333x512.jpg 333w, https://seattlein2025.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/STARSFS1953.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" /><span id=\"ref1\">The</span> first <i>Star</i> anthology appeared in 1953. Five more volumes, as well as a collection of “short novels,” as they were called then (novellas now), followed, as well as a selection of the best stories, published as <i>Star of Stars</i> [<a title=\"Footnote 1\" href=\"#fn1\">1</a>]. The quality of Pohl’s anthologies is impressive; flipping through my copies reveals classic stories such as Arthur C. Clarke’s “The Nine Billion Names of God,” Jerome Bixby’s “It’s a Good Life,” and Fritz Leiber’s “Space-Time For Springers.” <span id=\"ref2\">It’s</span> a shame the series is out of print [<a title=\"Footnote 2\" href=\"#fn2\">2</a>].</p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2075\" src=\"https://seattlein2025.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/STELLAR4F1974-159x256.jpg\" alt=\"The cover of Stellar 1, with art of a giant numeral one against a red sky with two suns, with a rocketship in front of the one and a pod blasting off in the background, listing nine authors and editor Judy-Lynn del Rey.\" width=\"159\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https://seattlein2025.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/STELLAR4F1974-159x256.jpg 159w, https://seattlein2025.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/STELLAR4F1974.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" />In 1974, Judy-Lynn del Rey’s <i>Stellar 1</i> appeared. <i>Stellar 1</i> was followed by six sequels, as well as a novella anthology, <i>Stellar Short Novels</i>. The parallels with Pohl’s series are no coincidence. As del Rey explains in her introduction to her <i>Stellar Short Novels</i>, she very much had Pohl’s <i>Star Science Fiction</i> in mind when she created her series. <span id=\"ref3\">Del</span> Rey’s purpose was to prove there was still a market for straightforward adventure fiction [<a title=\"Footnote 3\" href=\"#fn3\">3</a>]. While the result wasn’t quite as noteworthy as Pohl’s, it did foreshadow the manner in which the Del Rey imprint provided reliably entertaining material.</p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2076\" src=\"https://seattlein2025.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/STRLT1996B-173x256.jpg\" alt=\"The cover of Starlight 1, with art of a giant moon over a mountainous wooded landscape, listing editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden.\" width=\"173\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https://seattlein2025.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/STRLT1996B-173x256.jpg 173w, https://seattlein2025.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/STRLT1996B.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" />Lately we’ve had Patrick Nielsen Hayden’s <i>Starlight</i> series (1996—2001). The parallels with <i>Star Science Fiction</i> are weaker. There were only two subsequent volumes of <i>Starlight</i> anthologies. However, Nielsen Hayden namechecks <i>Star</i> in his introduction. Furthermore, the quality of the <i>Starlight</i> anthologies is as exemplary as Pohl’s. <span id=\"ref4\">It</span> is of such quality that one reviewer [<a title=\"Footnote 4\" href=\"#fn4\">4</a>] bizarrely recommended that one not buy the <i>Starlight</i> books themselves because the contents were so good that they would surely appear in various annual Best SF collections. This sort of advice is not how you get more installments, people.</p><p>I wouldn’t be surprised to discover <i>Star Science Fiction</i> had more progeny. In fact, I’d be delighted to find out that it did.</p><hr /><p><span id=\"fn1\">1</span>: Known as <i>Star Fourteen</i> in the UK, which might have sent readers off on wild goose chases for Stars Seven through Thirteen.</p><p>There was also a one-off <i>Star</i> magazine, released about the time the American News Company was liquidated. ANC distributed about half of the magazines sold in the U.S. before the liquidation, which may be why there was no issue number two. <a title=\"Return to reference 1\" href=\"#ref1\">⤴️</a></p><p><span id=\"fn2\">2</span>: Thanks to the huge print runs common when the 1970s editions of the <i>Star Science Fiction</i> anthologies appeared, I still see a copy or two when I peruse used bookstores. <a title=\"Return to reference 2\" href=\"#ref2\">⤴️</a></p><p><span id=\"fn3\">3</span>: I’d remembered <i>Stellar 1</i> as a counter-reaction to the New Wave, but rereading reveals that del Rey was vexed at academics for some reason. <a title=\"Return to reference 3\" href=\"#ref3\">⤴️</a></p><p><span id=\"fn4\">4</span>: Not me. <a title=\"Return to reference 4\" href=\"#ref4\">⤴️</a></p><div class=\"saboxplugin-wrap\" itemtype=\"http://schema.org/Person\" itemscope itemprop=\"author\"><div class=\"saboxplugin-tab\"><div class=\"saboxplugin-gravatar\"></div><div class=\"saboxplugin-authorname\"><a href=\"https://seattlein2025.org/author/james/\" class=\"vcard author\" rel=\"author\"><span class=\"fn\">James Davis Nicoll</span></a></div><div class=\"saboxplugin-desc\"><div itemprop=\"description\"><p>James Davis Nicoll is a book reviewer and five-time Hugo finalist, four-time Aurora finalist, and CSFFA Hall of Fame nominee. 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