Futurelove by Various Authors

ANNE MCCAFFREY, who is probably well known to most readers of this book, examines in her story a mother love that goes beyond the physical, in a new and different sense of that phrase; a sense, in fact, not possible until present-day medical technology gave us the means of realizing it. The particular gift of Anne McCaffrey is that she can infuse such an in- tense human light and warmth into a hitherto-un- known, laboratory-cold subject that it takes on the familiar, common quality of our everyday readerly lives.JOAN HOLLY, who has also been writing SF success- fully for years, deals with a different kind of parent-child pattern. Again there is a love situation emerging out of a relationship which would have been impossible before present-day science gave it to us as some- thing that could happen. But here again, through Joan Holly's creativity, we have an intense, swift-running story, like a landslide channeled between canyon walls so deep they almost shut out the light.JEFFREY CARVER