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Anvil, Christopher
THE POWER OF ILLUSION
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Hardcover
Bob Eggleton

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The Power of Illusion (2010) - the last collection of stories by "Christopher Anvil" (the name used by Harry C. Crosby for most of his fiction.) Eric Flint tells in his afterword that this collection completes the goal of having "back in print everything Anvil wrote in the way of science fiction." Baen Books printed this in Trade-paperback and mass-market paperback formats. The SFBC reprinted it in 2012 - the only hardcover edition.

...Part I. Research East:
A Taste of Poison
The Gold of Galileo
The Day the Machines Stopped

...Part II. Solver of Problems:
The Missile Smasher
The Problem Solver and the Killer
The Hand from the Past
The Problem Solver and the Hostage
The Problem Solver and the Defector
Key to the Crime
The Problem Solver and the Burned Letter

...Part III: Problems, Snafus, and Fubars:
Warped Clue
The Coward
A Sense of Disaster
Destination Unknown
High Road to the East
A Tourist Named Death
The Knife and the Sheath
The Anomaly
In the Light of Further Data
Apron Chains
The Power of Illusion
(Afterword - including Bibliography) by Eric Flint (editor)

"The Anomaly" is original to this collection, written for this volume before Anvil's death in 2009. The rest originally appeared from 1960 to 2008: one in Astounding/Analog, 4 in Analog, 4 in Ellery Queen's, 2 in Fantastic; and one each from Alfred Hitchcock's, Shell Scott's Mystery Magazine, Adam, SF Adventures, IF, Future Kin, Twilight Zone, Jim Baen's Universe. The Day the Machines Stopped was a novel in 1964 - from Monarch Books.






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