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ANYWHEN

by

JAMES BLISH



Each of the stories in this book was directly commissioned by a magazine editor, an opportunity I used in each case to try an experiment of one kind
or another. I've used this collection to second-guess one of the experiments, as follows:
In September of 1965, Kyril Bonfiglioli found himself host in Oxford to five science-fiction writers (Brian W. Aldiss, Poul Anderson, James G. Ballard,
Harry Harrison, and myself) and an artist (Judith Ann Lawrence), and commissioned from us all material for what was to be the first issue of Impulse,
a successor (now dofunct) to England's long-established professional magazine Science-Fantasy. The five stories and the cover were all to develop the
theme of a man who sacrifices his life for a cause-or who doesn't. Except for this bare statement, which as I recall was Mr. Aldiss' suggestion, we
had no other instructions except (for the writers) to stay inside ten thousand words.
My contribution to that "OxCon issue" was a novelette called "A Hero's Life". It was written in a vast hurry to meet Mr. Bonfiglioli's deadline, and
I didn't realize until too late to start something else that I had too much material to fit comfortably inside ten thousand words. Hence, I've taken
the opportunity to rewrite it, as the novella which leads off this book.

Treetops, Woodlands Road,JAMES BLISH
Harpsden (Henley), O?xon
1970
 Also in Affow by James Blish

Jack of Eagles
Midsummer Century
71te Seeding Stars
A Case of Conscience
The Quincunx of Time
Fallen Star
71se Testament of Andros

CITIES IN FLIOHT SERIES

They Shall Have Stars
A Life for the Stars
-Farthman, Come Home
A Clash of Cymbals
 James Blish

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