The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 7

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An Introduction to this poem, or to its author, would be certainly tautological, and probably presumptuous. The poem serves rather as an introduction to the book, stating tho case for the literature of the imagination far more effectively (literately, and imaginatively) than I should hope to do myself. “Oneiromachia” will be included in a new book of Mr. Aiken’s poetry. The Morning Song of lord Zero, to be published shortly by Oxford University Press.

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Loosen the rainbow, Mr. Aiken says… or splinter the light. They are the same thing seen from different sides of any prism. It is this function precisely, and uniquely, that defines the scope of what I mean by the derived initials of my title. “S-F” means all the ways of filtering feelings and Ideas through imagination so as to project them in another form — no less “true,” but a great deal less expected.

Kaatje Hurlbut has been writing for eighteen years, and is a fairly regular reader of science fiction, but this is her first s-f story. In telling me how it came about, she described graphically the working of this “prism effect”:

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