| | Amazon.com: Alone Against Tomorrow: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Earth's discarded freaks roam the spaceways; a method actor takes his art to the limit; a man is trapped in a room with a robot programmed to obliterate anything that moves; another man finds he has slipped through perception's cracks. |
 | | This collection is supposedly focused on "Stories of Alienation in Speculative Fiction," but that is really true of just about any collection of short-fiction written by Ellison. |
 | | For me the other high points of these 20 stories would be "The Discarded," in which mutated humans are sent into exile in orbit around Earth, "All the Sounds of Fear," about a method actor who goes way too far, and "In Lonely Lands," which almost qualifies as an actual "science fiction" tale from Ellison. |
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