title: Another Kind
text: # 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".
  
  