Not the Only Planet
By: Damien Broderick
Cover Art: David O'Brien
ISBN 10: 0864425821
ISBN 13: 9780864425829
ISFDB Publication Record # 160801
British National Bibliography System Number: 010753105
National Library of Australia Bib ID: 564607
OCLC Number: 42444738
Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number:
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications (1998)
Time Travel, Interplanetary Voyages,
Like a cyborg and his spaceship, travel and science fiction have always gone together. Not the Only Planet brings together a unique collection of stories about travel by internationally celebrated sf writers.
Review:
If our planet seems a little overexplored these days--well, there are always other worlds to survey. Australian science fiction icon Damien Broderick has collected stories from some of the world's best sci-fi writers in Not the Only Planet, a book of sci-fi travel that propels the imagination on an unbridled tour of worlds no travel agent will ever have on file.
The collection probes the vastness of the space-time continuum, as readers join a tour to the Crucifixion in Garry Kilworth's "Let's Go to Golgotha!"; photograph mountains on Mars in Brian W. Aldiss's "The Difficulties Involved in Photographing Nix Olympica"; and glean essential phrases for the space-traveling earthling ("You are not my guide. My guide was bipedal") in Joanna Russ's "Useful Phrases for the Tourist." From humorous to stark and unsettling, like all good sci-fi and travel writing, these stories investigate the many interiors of the human soul. A provocative book that truly takes travel to new dimensions.
--Byron Ricks
Damien Broderick
Introduction
Lisa Goldstein
Tourists
Greg Egan
Yeyuka
Brian W. Aldiss
The Difficulties Involved in Photographing Nix Olympica
Gene Wolfe
Seven American Nights
Stephen Dcdman
Tourist Trade
John Varley
In the Bowl
Garry Kilworth
Let's Go to Golgotha!
Joanna Russ
Useful Phrases for the Tourist
Robert Silverberg
Trips
Paul J. McAuley
All Tomorrow's Parties