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One Side Laughing: Stories Unlike Other Stories
One Side Laughing Stories Unlike Other Stories Author:Damon Knight Collection of 16 stories and one novella: Seventeen variations, 1965-86, from respected editor-writer-critic Knight, each a delightful fusion of craft and ideas. Knight covers familiar territory with style and wit: time travel, religion, peculiar alien invaders, a Tarzan pastiche, crime, a viewer that scans all places and times, a breathtaking c... more »ircular fantasy. And in the two longer pieces he illuminates darker human impulses.
"I See You" and "Strangers on Paradise" are two of Knight's best. The first studies the changes to society that an invention enabling the viewing of any past event--no matter how recent--would bring, while the second concerns a poet's reflections after she learns her Eden of a world was created through genocide. In both stories Knight gcreates vibrant characters who live in an alien environment that is at once natural and strange.« less