The version I have of “Ill Met in Lankhmar” has no internal divisions, so the third paragraph is: The two thieves also had the relief of knowing that, with the satisfaction of a job well done, they were going straight home now, not to a wife, Aarth forbid! - or to parents and children, all gods forfend! but to Thieves' House, headquarters and ( Read more... )

This is an anthology of classic sf stories - and classic pieces of sf criticism - assembled in the mid- 1990s on behalf of the Science Fiction Research Association. I found it somewhat frustrating and slightly incomprehensible. There is very little editorial apparatus to help the reader appreciate whatever point the editors are trying to make; some ( Read more... )