Isaac Asimov - Presents the Great SF Stories -11 - 1949

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1、IsaacAsimovPresentsTheGreatScienceFictionStoriesVolume11,1949EditedByIsaacAsimovandMartinH.Greenberg****CONTENTSIntroductionTHEREDQUEEN’SRACEIsaacAsimovFLAWJohnD.MacDonaldPRIVATEEYELewisPadgettMANNAPeterPhillipsTHEPRISONERINTHESKULLLewisPadgettALIENEARTHEdmondHamiltonHI

2、STORYLESSONArthurC.ClarkeETERNITYLOSTCliffordD.SimakTHEONLYTHINGWELEARNC.M.KornbluthPRIVATE—KEEPOUTPhilipMacDonaldTHEHURKLEISAHAPPYBEASTTheodoreSturgeonKALEIDOSCOPERayBradburyDEFENSEMECHANISMKatherineMacLeanCOLDWARHarryKuttnerTHEWITCHESOFKARRESJamesH.Schmitz****Introduc

3、tionIntheworldoutsiderealityitwasamostimportantyear,onethatsawtheSovietUniondetonateanuclearweaponandthevictoryoftheCommunistsinChina.OnJanuary20PresidentTrumanurgedin“PointFour”ofhisinauguraladdressthattheUnitedStatesshareitstechnologicalandscientificknowledgewith“unde

4、rprivilegedareas.”NATO(theNorthAtlanticTreatyOrganization)cameintobeingformallyonApril4andwouldsoonbeamajorfactorinAmericanforeignpolicy.TheRepublicofEireofficiallycameintoexistenceonApril18.Inarelativelyrarestatename-change,SiambecameThailandonMayI1,onedaybeforetheBerl

5、inblockadewasendedbytheSoviets.West(theGermanFederalRepublic)andEast(theGermanDemocraticRepublic)GermanywereestablishedonMay23andOctober7.ThedefeatedChineseNationalistsunderChiangKai-shekbe•gantoevacuatetheirremainingforcestoFormosaonJuly16;thePeople’sRepublicofChina,ru

6、ledbyMaoTse-tungandChouEn-lai,wasproclaimedonOctober1.PresidentTrumanannouncesonSeptember23thattheSovietshavesuccessfullytestedanuclearweapon.TheAmericandomesticeconomyundergoesaseriesofmajorstrikes,includingabitterdisputeinthecoalfields.Congressraisestheminimumwagefrom

7、40centsto75centsanhour.During1949SimonedeBeauvoirpublishedTheSecondSex,aworkthatgreatlyinfluencedthepostwarfeministmovement.ThegreatSelmanWaksmanisolatedneomycin,givingyetan•otherimportantantibiotictotheworld.JackieRobinsonwastheMostValuablePlayerintheNationalLeague,bat

8、tinganimpres•sive.342,whileRalphKinerledthemajorsinhomerunswith54.Hitsongsincluded“DearHeartsandGentlePeople,”