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Modern Classics of Science Fiction
| Alternate Title: | The Legend Book of Science Fiction |
| Author: | Gardner Dozois |
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St. Martin's Press, 1992 Legend, 1991 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
"The best stories are timeless. Long years from now the stories here may still touch someone, cause that person to blink, and put the book down for a second, and stare off through the hallow air, and shirver in wonder."
Table of Contents:
- Preface - (1991) - essay by Gardner Dozois
- The Country of the Kind - (1956) - shortstory by Damon Knight
- Aristotle and the Gun - (1958) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
- The Other Celia - (1957) - shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
- Casey Agonistes - (1958) - shortstory by Richard McKenna
- Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons - (1961) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
- The Moon Moth - (1961) - novelette by Jack Vance
- The Golden Horn - (1962) - novelette by Edgar Pangborn
- The Lady Margaret - (1966) - novelette by Keith Roberts
- This Moment of the Storm - (1966) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
- Narrow Valley - (1966) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
- Driftglass - (1967) - shortstory by Samuel R. Delany
- The Worm That Flies - (1968) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
- The Fifth Head of Cerberus - (1972) - novella by Gene Wolfe
- Nobody's Home - (1972) - shortstory by Joanna Russ
- Her Smoke Rose Up Forever - (1974) - shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.
- The Barrow - (1976) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Particle Theory - (1977) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
- The Ugly Chickens - (1980) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
- Going Under - (1981) - novelette by Jack Dann
- Salvador - (1984) - shortstory by Lucius Shepard
- Pretty Boy Crossover - (1986) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
- The Pure Product - (1986) - novelette by John Kessel
- The Winter Market - (1985) - novelette by William Gibson
- Chance - (1986) - novelette by Connie Willis
- The Edge of the World - (1989) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
- Dori Bangs - (1989) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
- Afterword - (1991) - essay by Gardner Dozois
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