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Synopsis

This is the definitive collection of the twentieth-century's most characteristic genre--science fiction. The tales are organized chronologically to give readers a sense of how the genre's range, vitality, and literary quality have evolved over time. Each tale offers a unique vision, an altered reality, a universe all its own.

Table of Contents

• Introduction - essay by Tom Shippey
• The Land Ironclads - (1903) - novelette by H. G. Wells
• Finis - (1906) - shortstory by Frank Lillie Pollock
• As Easy as ABC - (1912) - novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• The Metal Man - (1928) - shortstory by Jack Williamson
• A Martian Odyssey - (1934) - novelette by Stanley G. Weinbaum
• Night - (1935) - shortstory by John W. Campbell, Jr.
• Desertion - (1944) - shortstory by Clifford D. Simak
• The Piper's Son - (1945) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
• The Monster - (1948) - shortstory by A. E. van Vogt (variant of Resurrection)
• The Second Night of Summer - (1950) - novelette by James H. Schmitz
• Second Dawn - (1951) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• Crucifixus Etiam - (1953) - shortstory by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• The Tunnel Under the World - (1955) - novelette by Frederik Pohl
• Who Can Replace a Man? - (1958) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• Billennium - (1961) - shortstory by J. G. Ballard
• The Ballad of Lost C'Mell - (1962) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• Semley's Necklace - (1964) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin (variant of The Dowry of Angyar)
• How Beautiful With Banners - (1966) - shortstory by James Blish
• Problems of Creativeness - (1967) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
• How the Whip Came Back - (1970) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• A Criminal Act - (1966) - shortstory by Harry Harrison
• Cloak of Anarchy - (1972) - shortstory by Larry Niven
• A Thing of Beauty - (1973) - shortstory by Norman Spinrad
• The Screwfly Solution - (1977) - novelette by Raccoona Sheldon
• The Way of Cross and Dragon - (1979) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
• Swarm - (1982) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• Burning Chrome - (1982) - novelette by William Gibson
• Silicon Muse - (1984) - shortstory by Hilbert Schenck
• Karl and the Ogre - (1988) - shortstory by Paul J. McAuley
• Piecework - (1990) - novelette by David Brin
• Select Bibliography - essay by Tom Shippey
• Sources - essay by Tom Shippey

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