“I was wondering whether you might like to write something on that order as, say, a radio play.” “I really enjoyed that story of yours in Worlds of Tomorrow this last winter-‘The Star-Pit.’” Mr. In the year of his death, it had been my father’s favorite radio station. His name was unfamiliar, but I knew of WBAI and had listened to it on and off. In early spring of ’67, when I was living intermittently with Marilyn on East 10th Street, I received a phone call from someone who said he was Baird Searles-Drama and Literature Director for WBAI-FM. And Richard Lupoff chose it for What If? Volume 3.ĭelany himself collected “The Star Pit” in his great first collection Driftglass, and in a later collection, Aye, and Gomorrah.
Gardner Dozois put it in his anthology with a similar title (and ambition) to Silverberg’s: Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction. Robert Silverberg anthologized it twice – not just in Alpha 5 but in the Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels. It was in Judith Merril’s SF 12, the very last outing for her seminal series. The Star Pit was a finalist for the 1968 Hugo for Best Novella, which went in a tie to “Riders of the Purple Wage” by Philip Jose Farmer and “Weyr Search” by Anne McCaffrey. Samuel Delany’s first published short story was The Star-Pit and ran in the February 1967 issue of Worlds of Tomorrow.Īrguably considered the best science fiction story of 1967, Black Gate noted the accolades this story received:
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