Series
Orbit
Damon Knight, Kate Wilhelm, Kim Stanley Robinson, Charles L. Harness, Joan D. Vinge, Richard McKenna & Virginia Kidd · 9 novellas · 22 anthologies · 1966–1980
Orbit was a series of anthologies of new science fiction edited by Damon Knight, often featuring work by such writers as Gene Wolfe, Joanna Russ, R. A. Lafferty, and Kate Wilhelm. The anthologies tended toward the avant-garde edge of science fiction, but by no means exclusively; occasionally the volumes featured nonfiction critical writing or humorous anecdotes by Knight. Inspired by Frederik Pohl's Star Science Fiction series, and in its turn an influence on other original speculative fiction anthologies, it ran for over a decade and twenty-one volumes, not including a 1975 "Best of" collection selected from the first ten volumes.
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By decade
- 1960s8
- 1970s21
- 1980s2
Shape
9 novellas · 22 anthologies
7 authors
reads like:science fictionidentityour worldcontemporarychallengingadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 77% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book30 of 31 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Infinity Boxdarkest
- Mother and Childbrightest
- On the North Pole of Plutocalmest
- Probable Causemost intense