NEBULA AWARD WINNER
I wrote this tale of aliens who invade Earth and take possession of our minds in January, 1967 for the difficult, demanding editor Damon Knight, who was doing a much-admired annual science fiction anthology called ORBIT. Damon liked it but put me through four or five rewrites before he was satisfied – a very hard way to make $120. But the story did get better with each rewrite, I had to concede.
It appeared in the fourth issue of ORBIT in 1968 and promptly won me the Nebula award for best short story of the year. It came close to winning me the Hugo, too. Then it was picked for a string of anthologies and was bought for movie production. The movie was never made, but I got the rights back and it has been optioned for filming all over again. And so, by and large, it does seem worthwhile to have done all those rewrites for ORBIT all those long years ago.
Genre: Science Fiction
I wrote this tale of aliens who invade Earth and take possession of our minds in January, 1967 for the difficult, demanding editor Damon Knight, who was doing a much-admired annual science fiction anthology called ORBIT. Damon liked it but put me through four or five rewrites before he was satisfied – a very hard way to make $120. But the story did get better with each rewrite, I had to concede.
It appeared in the fourth issue of ORBIT in 1968 and promptly won me the Nebula award for best short story of the year. It came close to winning me the Hugo, too. Then it was picked for a string of anthologies and was bought for movie production. The movie was never made, but I got the rights back and it has been optioned for filming all over again. And so, by and large, it does seem worthwhile to have done all those rewrites for ORBIT all those long years ago.
Genre: Science Fiction
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