The Infinity Box

First edition cover
Author	Kate Wilhelm
Cover artist	Applebaum & Curtis (design)
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction, fantasy
Publisher	Harper & Row
Publication date	1975
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	318
OCLC	1411741
LC Class	74-15894

The Infinity Box is a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by American writer Kate Wilhelm, published in hardcover by Harper & Row in 1975. It was reprinted in paperback by Pocket Books in 1976; a British edition was published by Arrow Books in 1979, and a French translation, Le Village, appeared in 1987.^[1] It placed ninth in the annual Locus Poll for best story collection.^[2] Four of the nine stories were nominated for the Nebula Award.

Contents

• "Introduction"
• "The Infinity Box" [N] (Orbit 9 1971)
• "The Time Piece" (original)
• "The Red Canary" (Orbit 12 1973)
• "Man of Letters" (original)
• "April Fool’s Day Forever" [N] (Orbit 7 1970)
• "Where Have You Been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?" (Quark/3 1971)
• "The Fusion Bomb"· (Orbit 10 1972)
• "The Village" [N] (Bad Moon Rising 1973)
• "The Funeral" [N] (Again, Dangerous Visions 1972)^[3]

[N] designates Nebula-nominated stories.^[4]

Reception

Spider Robinson declared that Wilhelm "is one of the best practitioners of the short story in or out of sf" and rated all but one of the stories as "thoroughly satisfying, some of them superb."^[5] The New York Times described the book as a "collection of innovative short stories."^[6]