Anvil Assembled: Collected Short Fiction by Christopher Anvil (.ePUB)
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Anvil Assembled: The Collected Short Fiction by Christopher Anvil (Jerry eBooks, 2023)
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Overview: Christopher Anvil (the pseudonym of Harry Christopher Crosby) was born on March 11, 1925 in Norwich, Connecticut. After serving as a pilot with the U.S. military, he began publishing science fiction with the story “Cinderella, Inc.”. By 1956, he had adopted his pseudonym Christopher Anvil and his science-fiction work was being published primarily in Astounding Science Fiction.
Anvil’s stories usually deal with characters in different human government organizations, dealing with adventures, gadgetry, and subterfuge both internal and external. His military background enabled him to bring a certain realism to his portrayal of action and intrigue, which counterpointed the more fantastical elements of his stories.
One of Anvil’s best-known short stories is “Pandora’s Planet”, which appeared first in the September 1956 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. It has also been published as a full-length novel.
His stories became a perennial favorite with readers. The bulk of Anvil’s published writing consists of short stories, but these can be read in sequence according to the in-world timeline, as is now arranged in the two collections of The Interstellar Patrol.
Many of Anvil’s nonseries stories are almost purely idea-driven science fiction. Some of the most striking of these, for example “Gadget vs. Trend”, entirely lack dialogue and almost entirely lack characters; these stories consist of a series of newspaper reports or other similar materials. In these and other stories, Anvil’s technique is to put forth a gadget, invention, or social trend and logically develop the consequences.
Christopher Anvil died on November 30, 2009 in Cayuta, New York.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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