[Little John]

...... My Favorite short story is "The Green Hills of Earth".....

"...Green Hills...." was the first sci-fi book I ever purchased or read ..... ..... it was the first my daughter ever read ..... and she recently asked me if I still had the book as she wants it to be the first her daughter reads .....

Actually, Green Hills was the title of a paperback compliation of short stories that cost either a quarter or maybe $.35 back then. They also used to print two books back to back for about that price ..... lots of Andre Norton animal-sidekick stories.

FWIW, I bought Stranger from the sci-fi Bookclub and may well have a first edition ...... gotta look for it soon.

Regards

[Shooter 2.5]

Green Hills of Earth is the name of the short story in the book, Green Hills of Earth. I may be wrong about the story, though. The short story that I liked was the one that opened up with an Admiral's ship carrying a single coffin with a Geiger Counter reading in the red. The story then backtracked to what happened to cause it. It's a very moving story of sacrifice.