Frederik Pohl's Slave Ship and The Case Agaisnt Tomorrow.Pilgramage To Earth, by Robert Sheckley.Paths of Glory, directed by Stanley Kubrick.New Worlds earned the Hugo Award for best British magazine.The Music Man, and its song "Seventy-Six Trombones".Master Of Life And Death, by Robert Silverberg.Kids Say The Darndest Things!, by Art Link Letter.The Hunger And Other Stories, by Charles Beaumont.The Green Odyssey, by Philip José Farmer.Gimpel The Fool, by Isaac Bashevis Singer.Earthmans Burdern, by Poul Anderson and Gordon R.Clarke's books, The Deep Range and Tales from the White Hart. Marc Chagall painted his self-portrait, entitled "Self-Portrait".By Love Possessed, by James Gould Cozzens.Pat Boone's song, "Love Letters in the Sand".Astounding Science Fiction earned the Hugo Award for best American magazine.Isaac Asimov's books, The Naked Sun and Earth is Room Enough.And God Created Woman, starring Brigitte Bardot and directed by Roger Vadim.The Abominable Snowman Of The Himalayas.Shout-Out: In the introduction, multiple works are mentioned as being first published or becoming hits in 1957:.It's designed to be grey-green to camouflage itself in temperate forest environments and was built with six legs. The third-person narration occasionally shows what passes for thought by the machine heartbeat normal, respiration normal. Robot Dog: Carol Emshwiller's " Hunting Machine": The titular hunting machine is referred to as a dog by its human owners.He eventually leaves his human body and lives entirely in his pseudojovian body. Since Anglesey was paralyzed as a young man, he operates an esprojector that conveys his thoughts along a psibeam to fully immerse himself in the pseudojovian's mind. Joe is a pseudojovian manufactured to live on the surface of Jupiter. Not Disabled In VR: Poul Anderson's " Call Me Joe": "Joe" is the character played by Edward Anglesey, on Jupiter.Mile-Long Ship: Kate Wilhelm's " The Mile Long Spaceship": Although implied by the title, only one line in the story indicates the size of the titular ship "the mile-long spaceship in his dream".He and his fellow klansmen kill the same African-American twice (the second time was Willie after a Karmic Transformation). The Klan: Theodore R Cogswell's " You Know Willie": Willie McCracken is a Thrice High Warlock of the local chapter of The Knights of the Flaming Sword.The people who had been his fellow klansmen hunt him down and kill him (again). Karmic Transformation: Theodore R Cogswell's " You Know Willie": Willie McCracken, a klansman who shot an African-American to death, is transformed by Aunt Hattie, a very old and very black witch, into the body of the dead man.However, it is difficult to locate humanity's solar system from the knowledge of the average person, so they "encourage" him to study and go back to school. The aliens are seeking out other lifeforms, and Earth's ability to utilize atomics and travel between the planets in the solar system make humanity/Earth rate as an excellent find. Humans Through Alien Eyes: Kate Wilhelm's " The Mile Long Spaceship": The story switches between Allen, recovering in a hospital room on Earth, and the aliens aboard the titular starship in intergalactic space.It helps that the Martian language tends to make new words by combining existing ones, so that (for example) the word for "metal" is part of the names of various metallic elements. Beam Piper's " Omnilingual": This novelette uses the Periodic Table as a universal key. Archaeologists studying Martian ruins first begin to make progress on translating their language from their scientific publications, with a periodic table being equivalent to the Rosetta Stone.
Beam Piper's " Omnilingual": Science turns out to be something of a universal language. Biography: Each story is prefaced by a short description of why this story (from this author) was chosen to represent one of the fifteen best stories of the year along with a paragraph from Isaac Asimov's perspective.
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