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Originally Posted by cromag
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I'll be reading some short stories before deciding on my next novel.
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For some reason I happened to think of "With Friends Like These..." by Alan D. Foster. I read it when it appeared in Analog and went online to see if it was available. It doesn't appear to be, but I found a reference to it appearing in Donald A. Wollheim's World's Best SF 1972. During some moves I made in the 80s I cleared out a boatload of books I got from the Science Fiction Book Club (from the 60s, 70s and 80s) -- but I was pretty sure I kept the World's Best SF anthologies.
Bottom line: I found it in the basement, dusted it off, and reread the story. I still enjoy it.
After that, I went back to Poul Anderson's Polesotechnic stories, as collected by Baen. I read David Falkayn: Star Trader, the second in the series, and really liked them. The stories do show their age, but that's more good than bad.
I'll cast around for a few more short stories -- maybe even from the basement -- and then the next big book will probably be Rise of the Terran Empire, the third in the collection.