Another Kind
# Another Kind

Another Kind is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Chad Oliver. It was issued in hardcover and paperback by Ballantine Books in 1955 and a German translation was issued in 1965. It was Oliver's first collection.

## Contents

* "The Mother of Necessity", (original)
* "Rite of Passage", (Astounding 1954)
* "Scientific Method", (Science-Fiction Plus 1953)
* "Night", (If 1955)
* "Transformer", (F&SF 1954)
* "Artifact", (F&SF 1955)
* "A Star Above It", (original)

"Scientific Method" was originally published as "Hands Across Space".

## Reception

The New York Times reviewer Villiers Gerson faulted Oliver's "uniformly quiet, underwritten style," declaring the "cumulative effect" of the stories was "emotional monotony; too cerebral for more than mild entertainment, they are clever fugues written in a minor key." The Hartford Courant's George W. Earley praised Oliver's "excellent stories", saying he "has created some compellingly believable alien and earthly civilizations".

