The most notable story is again an investigation into the gulf between the sexes. "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" won both the Hugo (in a tie with Spider Robinson's "By Any Other Name") and Nebula awards as the best novella published in 1976. In it a crew of three American astronauts are caught up in an intense solar storm which apparently propels them through a time vortex into a world several hundred years into their future. A devastating plague has reduced the human population to just a few thousand, all female, whose only means of reproduction is the cloning of several basic genome types.
Al loro ritorno sulla Terra gli astronauti scoprono che le cose sono cambiate dalla loro partenza, e che il mondo ? popolato solo da donne. L’uomo ? considerato un pericoloso residuo del passato.Vincitore dei premi Hugo e Nebula per il miglior romanzo breve in 1977.
Men and women who have shown signs of telepathic powers have been brought together by the U.S. Military to investigate their powers’ possible military application. Meanwhile, telepathic aliens in a solar system destined for destruction try to telepathically cry out for help and understanding, only to reach our heros in the research project.
