Book description
Time Switch at the Zoo. One day Martin Naumchik, reporter for Paris
Soir, visited the Berlin Zoo. He was standing outside the spacious cage
housing the newly-acquired Brecht Biped, Fritz, when the world seemed to
lurch Then he was no longer outside the cage looking in, but inside
looking out. He was no longer Martin Naumchik. He was Fritz, the Biped,
that strange celestial animal from a world eighteen light-years away At
the same time, Fritz, who had lived almost all his life in Hamburg Zoo,
also felt the lurching motion. And found himself standing outside his
cage in the body of Martin Naumchik, looking at the frantic Biped
inside, who was beating with both hands on the glass Damon Knight
(1922 - 2002) Damon Francis Knight was born in Oregon in 1922. He is
regarded as one of the most important figures in modern science fiction,
having made significant contributions to the field as an author, editor
and critic. Knight co-founded the Milford Writers' Conference, the
influential Clarion Workshop and the Science Fiction Writers of America,
serving as its first president from 1965-67. Around this time he also
made his reputation as one of the field's foremost anthologists.
Beginning with reprint collections, in 1966 he launched the influential
Orbit series of original anthologies. Starting with Orbit 1, the series
would continue for over a decade, concluding in 1980 with Orbit 21.
Orbit was the longest running and most influential anthology series in
SF up to that point, showcasing such important authors as Gene Wolfe, R.
A. Lafferty and Knight's third wife, Kate Wilhelm. A master of short
fiction, Damon Knight is best known in wider circles as the author of
'To Serve Mankind', which was adapted for The Twilight Zone and later
spoofed in a Hallowe'en episode of The Simpsons. He was granted the
SFWA's Grand Master Award in 1995, and in 2002, SFWA renamed it the
Damon Knight Grand Master Award in his honour. He died in 2002.
