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A Star Above It and Other Stories is volume 1 of a collection of Chad Oliver's SF, containing the following:
Blood's a Rover
The Land of Lost Content
The Ant and the Eye
Artifact
Any More At Home Like You?
Rewrite Man
The Edge of Forever
The Boy Next Door
A Star Above It
The Mother of Necessity
Night
Technical Advisor
Between the Thunder and the Sun
The One That Got Away
Transfusion
Guardian Spirit
The Gift
To Whom It May Concern
A Stick for Harry Eddington
Old Four-Eyes
Chad Oliver (1928-1993)
Chad Oliver was the working name that US anthropologist and writer Symmes Chadwick Oliver used for his SF titles. He was born in Ohio but spent most of his life in Texas, where he studied for his MA. He later took a PhD in anthropology at the University of California, which lead to his appointment as a professor of anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin. Oliver's SF work reflected both his professional training and personal roots: much of it is set in the outdoors of the US Southwest and most of his characters are deeply involved in outdoor activities. Oliver was also always concerned with the depiction of Native American life. His first published story, "The Land of Lost Content", appeared in Super Science Stories in November 1950.