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Time and Stars ( for original hardcover version) is a collection of science fiction short stories by Poul Anderson, published in 1964. "Dangerous universe: Faced with machines that think by and for themselves, super-intelligent space beings bent on a suicidal course and a galaxy teeming with dangerous alien life, man had to invent new weapons, new defenses - or perish from the universe."〔From the back cover of the 1975 Manor Books paperback edition〕 ==Contents== Source〔(Review ), Paul Camp, Amazon.com, 25 February 2010〕 * "No Truce with Kings": A war story set on a future, semi-primitive Earth with aliens * * Original Appearance: ''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'', June 1963 * "The Critique of Impure Reason": A robot will not work because it is infatuated with modern literature and literary criticism * * Original Appearance: ''If'', November 1962 * "Escape from Orbit": Astronauts stranded in orbit around the moon * * Original Appearance: ''Amazing Stories'', October 1962 * "Eve Times Four": Space traveler Lothario is stranded on a planet with three beautiful women * * Original Appearance: ''Fantastic Science Fiction Stories'', April 1960 * "Turning Point": A first contact story that gives a haunting portrait of the price of giftedness and the loss of innocence * * Original Appearance: ''If'', May 1963 * "Epilogue": A crew of humans return to Earth after a long absence, finding it has been taken over by a kind of transistor-based ecology of machines; a lack of understanding between the robots and the humans leads to tragedy * * Original Appearance: ''Analog'', March 1962 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Time and Stars」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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