The Human Angle

The Human Angle

First edition cover
Author William Tenn
Cover artist Richard M. Powers
Language English
Genre Science fiction short stories
Publisher Ballantine Books
Publication date
1956
Media type Print (hardcover, paperback)
Pages 152 pp

The Human Angle is the second collection of science fiction stories by American writer William Tenn, published simultaneously in hardcover and paperback by Ballantine Books in 1956. Ballantine reprinted the collection in 1964 and 1968.[1]

Contents

The Human Angle contains the following stories.[1]

Reception

New York Times reviewer Villiers Gerson praised the stories as "Mordant and suave, cruel and clever, saturnine and sentimental," noting that "if [Tenn] has a fault, it is that his writing is sometimes too clever, exhibiting too many fireworks."[3]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Tuck, Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, p. 254.
  2. Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections
  3. "Spacemen's Realm," New York Times, November 18, 1956

Sources

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