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Editor:	Brian Aldiss
Title:	Galactic Empires Volume Two
Subtitle:	An Anthology Of Way-back-when Futures In Two Volumes
Publisher:	Orbit / Futura
Country:	UK
Date:	1976
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:	0860079090
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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futura publications limited
110 warner road, camberwell, london se5 (uk)

first published in great britain in 1976 by futura publications limited

introduction and original material
copyright © brian w. aldiss 1976
printed in great britain by hazell watson & viney ltd
aylesbury, bucks

viii + 1-296 = 304pp including 5pp. titles, indica, table of contents (v), introduction (vi-viii).
cover art uncredited, unsigned, attributed to karel thole on st. martins press merkin hardcover dust-jacket flap)
cover price 85p, canada $2.50

title on cover including spine is "galactic empires 2"

reprint anthology containing three novellas, three novelettes and six short stories:
introduction (nf) brian aldiss 1975:
section 2 maturity or bust (continued)
i 'you can't impose conditions by force'
"escape to chaos" (nlla) john d macdonald (super science stories 6/1951 (sss uk #6))
"concealment" (nlla) a e van vogt (asf 9/1943) (mixed men)
"to civilize" algis budrys (future 1/1954)
"beep" (ntte) james blish (galaxy 2/1954 (galaxy uk #16)
ii the other end of the stick
"down the river" mack reynolds (startling 9/1950)
"the bounty hunter" avram davidson (fantastic universe 3/1958)
"not yet the end" fredric brown (captain future winter (1)/1951")
section 3: decline and fall
i all things are cyclic
"tonight the stars revolt!" (nlla) gardner f. fox (planet stories 3/1952)
"final encounter" harry harrison (galaxy 4/1964)
ii big ancestors and descendants
"lord of a thousand sons" (ntte) poul anderson (planet stories 9/1951)
"big ancestor" (ntte) f l wallace (galaxy 11/1954 (galaxy uk #25))
"the interlopers" roger dee (asf 9/1954 (asf uk 2/55))

epilogue (quote from "star maker" olaf stapledon, q.v.)

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