Caught in the Organ Draft: Biology in Science Fiction

by Naomi Mitchison, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, et al.

An anthology of twelve science fiction stories with biological themes. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374312281
• ISBN13: 9780374312282
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Not Free SF Reader

Asimov gives an intro here to an area of interest to him, and after the stories he takes a look at the particular biological area each story is focused on. Definitely a good collection with a 3.36 average for stories. Caught in the Organ Draft : Keep Out - Fredric Brown Caught in the Organ Draft : Student Body - Floyd L. Wallace Caught in the Organ Draft : A Sound of Thunder - Ray Bradbury Caught in the Organ Draft : Invariant - John R. Pierce Caught in the Organ Draft : The Exterminator - A. Hyatt Verrill Caught in the Organ Draft : Tomorrow's Children - Poul Anderson Caught in the Organ Draft : Mary and Joe - Naomi Mitchison Caught in the Organ Draft : Sea Change - Thomas N. Scortia Caught in the Organ Draft : Caught in the Organ Draft - Robert Silverberg Caught in the Organ Draft : Nine Lives - Ursula K. Le Guin Caught in the Organ Draft : Alien Earth - Edmond Hamilton Caught in the Organ Draft : Grandpa - James H. Schmitz Super adaptability drug Martians don't want visitors not like them. 3.5 out of 5 Things change really fast around here. 4 out of 5 Stay in the lines, you dino hunting dumbarse. 4 out of 5 Solid specimen. 3 out of 5 Bug death. 3.5 out of 5 Post-apocalytpic mutation multiplicity. 4.5 out of 5 Clone mum foresight. 3 out of 5 Different sort of explorer. 2.5 out of 5 Cannibalising the young. 4.5 out of 5 Clonepacks come in tens. 4 out of 5 On vegie time. 3 out of 5 Big ol' beast ride. 4 out of 5

Biology that make you think

This was one of my first Sci-Fi books (the other being "Hallucination orbit"...!), then it brings me fond memories. It contains a lot of stories that make you think about discoveries in the bio-field. Notably is the tale that gives name to the anthology: In the future the youngs are viewed as spare parts by the old-timers (who control the laws). A Generation Gap taken to the max... Another one confronts human settlers with a species that evolves acceleratedly to cope with a unestable environment. Will humans be prepared for the next evolution step... It contains "A sound of thunder" (made recently in a movie). Got some outdated (for now standards) radiation victims story. But being all short stories, you will end swiftly those you don't like, to bite in the ones that are worth