The Infinity Box Explained

The Infinity Box
Author:	Kate Wilhelm
Cover Artist:	Applebaum & Curtis (design)
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Publisher:	Harper & Row
Release Date:	1975
Media Type:	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages:	318
Congress:	74-15894
Oclc:	1411741

The Infinity Box is a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by American writer Kate Wilhelm, published in hardcover by Harper & Row in 1975. It was reprinted in paperback by Pocket Books in 1976; a British edition was published by Arrow Books in 1979, and a French translation, Le Village, appeared in 1987.^[1] It placed ninth in the annual Locus Poll for best story collection.^[2] Four of the nine stories were nominated for the Nebula Award.

Contents

• "Introduction"
• "The Infinity Box" [N] (Orbit 9 1971)
• "The Time Piece" (original)
• "The Red Canary" (Orbit 12 1973)
• "Man of Letters" (original)
• "April Fool’s Day Forever" [N] (Orbit 7 1970)
• "Where Have You Been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?" (Quark/3 1971)
• "The Fusion Bomb"· (Orbit 10 1972)
• "The Village" [N] (Bad Moon Rising 1973)
• "The Funeral" [N] (Again, Dangerous Visions 1972)^[3]

[N] designates Nebula-nominated stories.^[4]

Reception

Spider Robinson declared that Wilhelm "is one of the best practitioners of the short story in or out of sf" and rated all but one of the stories as "thoroughly satisfying, some of them superb."^[5] The New York Times described the book as a "collection of innovative short stories."^[6]

Notes and References

1. http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?29137 ISFDB bibliography
2. http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit148.html#5609 Locus Index to SF Awards
3. http://www.philsp.com/homeville/isfac/t93.htm#A2083 Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections
4. http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit148.html Locus Index to SF Awards
5. "Galaxy Bookshelf", Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1976, p.115
6. "Paperbacks: Mew and Noteworthy", The New York Times Book Review, May 8, 1977