Time in Advance / The Future is Coming!
Pocketbok.
Gott skick. Bantam Books. 1:a uppl. 1958. 153 s. Pocket. Mindre bruksspår; främst på pärmen. Ägarnamnteckning i början av boken (blyerts). SF på engelska: Four prophetic and astounding novelettes from one of today's most brilliant young writers". Time in Advance (no ISBN) is a collection of four short stories by science fiction writer William Tenn (a pseudonym for the sci-fi work of Philip Klass). The stories all originally appeared in a number of different publications between 1952 and 1957. - William Tenn was the pseudonym of Philip Klass (May 9, 1920 ? February 7, 2010), a British-born American science fiction author, notable for many stories with satirical elements. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ranked Tenn as "one of the genre's very few genuinely comic, genuinely incisive writers of short fiction". Theodore Sturgeon summed up Tenn's humorous viewpoint on life: It would be too wide a generalization to say that every SF satire, every SF comedy and every attempt at witty and biting criticism found in the field is a poor and usually cheap imitation of what this man has been doing since the 1940s. His incredibly involved and complex mind can at times produce constructive comment so pointed and astute that the fortunate recipient is permanently improved by it. Admittedly, the price may be to create two whole categories for our species: humanity and William Tenn. For each of which you must create your ethos and your laws. I've done that. And to me it's worth it"."
