Orbit 8
Published in 1970 by G.P. Putnam's Sons and edited by Damon Knight.
Table of contents:
- "Horse of Air", by Gardner Dozois, reprinted in Nebula Award Stories, The Best from Orbit, and The Visible Man. A man survives the end of the world inside his apartment.
- "A Method Bit in "B"", by Gene Wolfe. A police sergeant investigating a murder discovers he is actually a bit character in a B-movie.
- "Interurban Queen", by R.A. Lafferty, reprinted in RINGING CHANGES, Days of Grass, Days of Straw, and in Lafferty in Orbit. A lightly satirical story about an alternate history America where light rail systems have become the norm and cars are outlawed. This world is portrayed as a paradise, with all cities small, unique, and mostly for entertainment. Cars still exist, and are built by "Sly klunker makers". Being caught driving a car is a capital offense without trial.
- Notable quote
"A man in an automobile is worth a thousand men on foot"
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Famous quotes containing the word orbit:
“The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along its causeway, and am, as it were, related to society by this link. The men on the freight trains, who go over the whole length of the road, bow to me as to an old acquaintance, they pass me so often, and apparently they take me for an employee; and so I am. I too would fain be a track-repairer somewhere in the orbit of the earth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)