Time Untamed?
I finished up a book of short stories called Time Untamed. It was
published in 1967 by Belmont Books. Collection of big names: Asimov,
Bradbury, Clifford Simak, Fritz Leiber, Wyndham, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Bloch, L. Sprague de
Camp. It has a weird mix of stories though. The Bloch, Sturgeon and
Leiber stories are pretty straightforward horror stories. L. Sprague De
Camp's is fantasy. While the rest are sci-fi, it was just a strange compilation. Not even very sure why the collection has the
title Time Untamed, only one story, Bradbury's "Tomorrow and Tomorrow",
has anything to do with time travel. The Asimov story is "Sally" and
after reading it I wondered if the people at Pixar are fans of Asimov. Sally is the name of a car in the short story and in the movie Cars and
the description in the story is similar to how she looks in the movie.
The cars in the story don't speak but they do have positronic brains. I
really enjoyed the collection but am just puzzled on how/why these
stories were collected together. Recommended!
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