The Best of Lester del Rey

by Lester del Rey

Book Overview

The Pyrotechnics of Lester del Rey SF's most protean personality--writer, editor, critic, publisher--sets off an incomparable fireworks display in these tales of robots and humans, animals and aliens, ghosts and gods, science and the supernatural . . . HELEN O'LOY If you want an ideal mate, build her! HEREAFTER, INC. This is Heaven? The hell it is! LITTLE JIMMY The invisible kid was a ghost for sure. But whose? INSTINCT The robots labored to re-create...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345273362
• ISBN13: 9780345273369
• Release Date: August 1978
• Publisher: Del Rey Books
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Vintage goodness

A very nice collection of stories. The true value of these works is in the freshness and naivete of the dawn of modern SF. Del Rey explores many different ideas, often being one of the first authors to touch upon them. One thing that struck me about this collection is how memorable these stories are - they have characters and moods that stay with you for a long time. There are just too many good stories here to name them all, but "For I am a Jealous People" and "Vengeance is Mine" stand out. I also liked "Keepers of the House" (dog story that one of the previous reviewers did not like).

Great!

This conglomeration of Lester Del Rey's stories was wonderful. I had never him before, but after this book, I was hooked. I couldn't put it down. A must have!