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The big book of science fiction: the ultimate collection
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Publication Date
2016.
Language
English
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ISBN
9781101910092
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From the Book
The star / H. G. Wells --
Sultana's dream / Rokheya Shekhawat Hossain --
The triumph of mechanics / Karl Hans Strobl --
The new overworld / Paul Scheerbart --
Elements of Pataphysics / Alfred Jarry --
Mechanopolis / Miguel de Unamuno --
The doom of Principal City / Yefim Zozulya --
The comet / W. E. B. Du Bois --
The fate of the Poseidonia / Clare Winger Harris --
The star stealers / Edmond Hamilton --
The conquest of Gola / Leslie F. Stone --
A Martian odyssey / Stanley G. Weinbaum --
The last poet and the robots / A t --
The microscopic giants / Paul Ernst --
Tlo⁺⁸n, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius / Jorge Luis Borges --
Desertion / Clifford D. Simak --
September 2005: the Martian / Ray Bradbury --
Baby HP / Juan Jose⁺¹ Arreola --
Surface tension / James Blish --
Beyond lies the Wub / Philip K. Dick --
The snowball effect / Katherine Maclean --
Prott / Margaret St. Clair --
The liberation of Earth / William Tenn --
Let me live in a house / Chad Oliver --
The star / Arthur C. Clarke --
Grandpa / James H. Schmitz --
The game of rat and dragon / Cordwainer Smith --
The last question / Isaac Asimov --
Stranger station / Damon Knight --
Sector general / James White --
The visitors / Arkady and Boris Strugatsky --
Pelt / Carol Emshwiller --
The monster / Ge⁺¹rard Klein --
The man who lost the sea / Theodore Sturgeon --
The waves / Silvina Ocampo --
Plenitude / Will Worthington --
The voices of time / J. G. Ballard --
The astronaut / Valentina Zhuravlyova --
The squid chooses its own ink / Adolfo Bioy Casares --
2BRO2B / Kurt Vonnegut Jr. --
A modest genius / Vadim Shefner --
Day of Wrath / Sever Gansovsky --
The hands / John Baxter
Darkness / Andre⁺¹ Carneiro --
"Repent, Harlequin!" said the Ticktockman / Harlan Ellison --
Nine hundred grandmothers / R. A. Lafferty --
Day million / Frederik Pohl --
Student body / F. L. Wallace --
Aye, and Gomorrah / Samuel R. Delany --
The hall of machines / Langdon Jones --
Soft clocks / Yoshio Aramaki --
Three from Moderan / David R. Bunch --
Let us save the universe / Stanislaw Lem --
Vaster than empires and more slow / Ursula K. Le Guin --
Good news from the Vatican / Robert Silverberg --
When it changed / Joanna Russ --
And I awoke and found me here on the cold hill's side / James Tiptree Jr. --
Where two paths cross / Dmitri Bilenkin --
Standing woman / Yasutaka Tsutsui --
The IWM 1000 / Alicia Ya⁺¹nez Cossio --
The house of compassionate sharers / Michael Bishop --
Sporting with the Chid / Barrington J. Bayley --
Sandkings / George R. R. Martin --
Wives / Lisa Tuttle --
The snake who had read Chomsky / Josephine Saxton --
Reiko's universe box / Kajio Shinji --
Swarm / Bruce Sterling --
Mondocane / Jacques Barbe⁺¹ri --
Blood music / Greg Bear --
Bloodchild / Octavia E. Butler --
Variation on a man / Pat Cadigan --
Passing as a flower in the City of the Dead / S. N. Dyer --
New Rose Hotel / William Gibson --
Pots / C. J. Cherryh --
Snow / John Crowley --
The lake was full of artificial things / Karen Joy Fowler --
The unmistakable smell of wood violets / Ange⁺¹lica Gorodischer --
The owl of Bear Island / Jon Bing --
Readers of the lost art / E⁺¹lizabeth Vonarburg --
A gift from the culture / Iain M. Banks --
Paranamanco / Jean-Claude Dunyach
Crying in the rain / Tanith Lee --
The frozen cardinal / Michael Moorcock --
Rachel in love / Pat Murphy --
Sharing air / Manjula Padmanabhan --
Schwarzschild radius / Connie Willis --
All the hues of hell / Gene Wolfe --
Vacuum states / Geoffrey A. Landis --
Two small birds / Han song --
Burning sky / Rachel Pollack --
Before I wake / Kim Stanley Robinson --
Death is static death is movement / Misha Nogha --
The brains of rats / Michael Blumlein --
Gorgonoids / Leena Krohn --
Vacancy for the post of Jesus Christ / Kojo Laing --
The universe of things --
Gwyneth Jones --
The Remoras / Robert Reed --
The ghost standard / William Tenn --
Remnants of the Virago crypto-system / Geoffrey Maloney --
How Alex became a machine / Stepan Chapman --
The poetry cloud / Cixin Liu --
Story of your life / Ted Chiang --
Craphound / Cory Doctorow --
The Slynx / Tatyana Tolstaya --
Baby doll / Johanna Sinisalo.
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