Another Kind

{{Short description|1955 collection of science fiction short stories by Chad Oliver}} {{infobox book |  | name = Another Kind | title_orig = | translator = | image = Another Kind (Chad Oliver collection - cover art).jpg | caption = First edition | author = Chad Oliver | illustrator = | cover_artist = Richard M. Powers | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = Science fiction | publisher = Ballantine Books | release_date = 1955 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print (hardback) | pages = 190 | isbn = | oclc = 301196212 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''Another Kind''''' is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Chad Oliver. It was issued in hardcover and paperback by Ballantine Books in 1955 and a German translation was issued in 1965.<ref>[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?37655 ISFDB Bibliography]</ref> It was Oliver's first collection.

==Contents== *"The Mother of Necessity", (original) *"Rite of Passage", (''Astounding'' 1954) *"Scientific Method", (''Science-Fiction Plus'' 1953) *"Night", (''If'' 1955) *"Transformer", (''F&SF'' 1954) *"Artifact", (''F&SF'' 1955) *"A Star Above It", (original)

"Scientific Method" was originally published as "Hands Across Space".<ref>[http://www.philsp.com/homeville/isfac/t75.htm#A1627 Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections]</ref>

==Reception== ''The New York Times'' reviewer Villiers Gerson faulted Oliver's "uniformly quiet, underwritten style," declaring the "cumulative effect" of the stories was "emotional monotony; too cerebral for more than mild entertainment, they are clever fugues written in a minor key."<ref>"In the Realm of the Spaceman", ''The New York Times Book Review'', October 23, 1955, p. 30</ref> ''The Hartford Courant's'' George W. Earley praised Oliver's "excellent stories", saying he "has created some compellingly believable alien and earthly civilizations".<ref>"Science Fiction", ''The Hartford Courant'', October 16, 1955, p. SM22</ref>

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Category:Science fiction short story collections Category:Ballantine Books books Category:1955 short story collections