Beginnings (collection)
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{{Infobox book
| name = Beginnings
| title_orig =
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| image = Beginnings (1988 book) cover.jpg
| caption = Cover of the first edition
| author = Gordon R. Dickson
| illustrator =
| cover_artist = Greg West
| country = United States
| language = English
| series =
| genre = Science fiction
| publisher = Baen Books
| release_date = 1988
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| media_type = Print (paperback)
| pages = 282
| isbn = 0-671-65429-2
| oclc= 18424965
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Beginnings is a collection of science fiction stories and poems by American writer Gordon R. Dickson. It was first published by Baen Books in 1988. The majority of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines Astounding, Future, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Fantastic, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy Science Fiction, Fantastic Universe and Worlds of Tomorrow. The poems had first appeared in The Final Encyclopedia.
Contents
- Foreword
- "The Brown Man"
- "Danger—Human!"
- "Cloak and Stagger"
- "Three-Part Puzzle"
- "Seats of Hell"
- "Listen"
- "Soldier, Ask Not"
- "Strictly Confidential"
- "Powerway Emergency"
- "Idiot Solvant"
- "On Messenger Mountain"
References
- {{Cite web
| last = Brown
| first = Charles N.
| author-link = Charles N. Brown
|author2=William G. Contento
| title = The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984-1998)
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| url = http://www.locusmag.com/index/t82.htm#A9827
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| doi =
| access-date = 2008-01-21 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080117005230/http://www.locusmag.com/index/t82.htm| archive-date= 17 January 2008 | url-status= live}}
- {{cite book | last=Clute | first=John | author-link=John Clute |author2=Peter Nicholls |author-link2=Peter Nicholls (writer) | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction | location=New York| publisher=St. Martin's Griffin | pages=331 | year=1995|isbn=0-312-13486-X}}
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Category:1988 short story collections
Category:Short story collections by Gordon R. Dickson
Category:American poetry collections
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