| 词条 | A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales |
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| name = A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales | title_orig = | translator = | image = Gun for dinosaur.jpg | caption = first edition of A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales | author = L. Sprague de Camp | illustrator = | cover_artist = Gilda Kuhlman | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = Science fiction short stories | publisher = Doubleday | release_date = 1963 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print (hardback) | pages = 359 pp | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales is a short story collection by science fiction and fantasy author L. Sprague de Camp, first published in hardback by Doubleday in 1963, and in paperback by Curtis Books in 1969. The first British edition was issued by Remploy in 1974.[1][2] It has also been translated into German.[1] Contents
ReceptionKirkus Reviews called the collection "a generous collection" by "[a]n established entertainer" with "a variety, inventivity and humor which gives this a definite superiority in the genre.[3]P. Schuyler Miller felt it "must represent just about the last grain spirits to be distilled from the de Campian mash" with "[m]most of the ... stories ... also distinctly late-model de Camp, commenting on the current scene--and especially the suburban, or more properly exurban scene--by projecting it into the future, where its 'things of custom' appear in all their incongruity. As the plot grows simpler and simpler, the settings and commentary carry more and more of the load, in the manner of an off-Broadway play. And there will be those who say the author has written himself into most of his rather put-upon heroes-in-spite-of-themselves." Miller singles out the title story as "one of the classic time-travel stories," and "Aristotle and the Gun" as "even better," but deems "Internal Combustion" "[o]ne of the best stories in the lot--because it is so unlike the rest."[4]S. E. Cotts calls the book "a well-deserved tribute to one of science fiction's steadiest and most well-rounded contributors," and the title story "one of my favorites," noting that "[i]ts subject, about a safari into the past, has been successfully tackled by other writers, but this version has solid merit."[5] Avram Davidson found the collection "a great disappointment," saying he could no longer enjoy de Camp's shorter work because the author "[t]ime after time ... gets hold of a great idea--and throws it away in playing for laughs of the feeblest conceivable sort." He deems "Judgment Day" the "sole exception ... it is so authentic-sounding that one could scream."[6]Notes1. ^1 {{cite book | last=Laughlin | first=Charlotte |author2=Daniel J. H. Levack | title=De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography | location=San Francisco | publisher=Underwood/Miller | year=1983 | page=62}} {{L. Sprague de Camp}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales, A}}2. ^{{isfdb title|id=37570|title=A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales}} 3. ^[https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/l-sprague-de-camp-12/a-gun-for-dinosaur-and-other-imaginative-tales/ Kirkus Reviews, 1963] 4. ^Miller, P. Schuyler. "The Reference Library" in Analog Science Fact - Science Fiction, v. 71, no. 5, July 1962, p. 87. 5. ^Cotts, S. E. "The Spectroscope" in Amazing Stories, v. 37, no. 9, September 1963, p. 125. 6. ^Davidson, Avram. "Books" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, v. 25, no. 4, October 1963, pp.20-21 3 : 1963 short story collections|Science fiction short story collections by L. Sprague de Camp|Doubleday (publisher) books |
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