title: Before They Were Giants: First Works from Science Fiction Greats (Planet Stories)
author: Piers Anthony
description: Sutter's primary goal for this anthology is to show the humble beginnings of famous authors so new writers will be less embarrassed by their own early efforts. In this the results are mixed, since many of the 15 stories are impressive. China Miville's "Highway 61 Revisited" and Nicola Griffith's "Mirrors and Burnstone" make deft use of familiar themes; Kim Stanley Robinson's "In Pierson's Orchestra" and Michael Swanwick's "Ginungagap" are legitimately masterful. More reassuring are the short interviews, which contain helpful advice and humanizing tales of rejection. Sutter limited his invitations to authors who were available to give interviews and hadn't contributed to similar compilations, like Martin Greenberg's recent Wondrous Beginnings and Magical Beginnings; readers may appreciate the lack of crossover but will bemoan the resulting lack of female authors in Sutter's TOC. <br />(c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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  Title: Once Upon A Planet  
    
  Author: J. J. Allerton  
    
  Release Date: June 12, 2010 [EBook #32785]  
    
  Language: English  
    
    
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  # ONCE UPON A PLANET
  
  
  ## By J. J. ALLERTON
  
  
  [Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Amazing Stories December 1948.
  Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on
  this publication was renewed.]
  
  
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  The mighty King Miotis came down to Earth to recapture his lost desi