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Here Comes Civilization: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn, Volume 2
Here Comes Civilization The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn Volume 2 Author:William Tenn, James A. Mann, Mary C. Tabasko Here Comes Civilization contains the novel Of Men and Monsters, as well as all of the short science fiction that was not included in the companion to this volume, Immodest Proposals. It includes such classic stories as "Bernie the Faust," "The Malted Milk Monster," and "The Discovery of Mornel Mathaway." Also included are several stories that ha... more »ve not been reprinted since their initial magazine publications as well as the short novel A Lamp for Medusa.
Tenn has long been considered one of the major satirists in the field. The Science Fiction Encyclopedia calls him "one of the genre's very few genuinely comic, genuinely incisive writers of short fiction." Theodore Sturgeon had the following to say:
"It would be too wide a generalization to say that every SF satire, every SF comedy and every attempt at witty and biting criticism found in the field is a poor and usually cheap imitation of what this man has been doing sionce the '40s. [But] his incredibly involved and complex mind can at times produce constructive comment pointed and astute that the fortunate recipient is permanently improved by it."« less