anthology: THE OXFORD BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION STORIES

Science fiction is one of the twentieth century´s most characteristic - and dominant - literary forms. Despite critical disparagement and misunderstanding it has established itself at the heart of popular literary culture and its readers are now numbered in millions worldwide.

CONTENTS:

• The Land Ironclads (H. G. Wells)
• Finis (Frank L. Pollack)
• As Easy as ABC (Rudyard Kipling)
• The Metal Man (Jack Williamson)
• A Martian Odyssey (Stanley G. Weinbaum)
• Night (John W. Campbell Jr.)
• Desertion (Clifford D. Simak)
• The Piper´s Son (Lewis Padgett)
• The Mosnter (A. E. van Vogt)
• The Second Night of Summer (James H. Schmitz)
• Second Dawn (Arthur C. Clarke)
• Crucifixus Etiam (Walter M. Miller Jr.)
• The Tunnel Under the World (Frederik Pohl)
• Who Can Replace a Man? (Brian Aldiss)
• Billennium (J. G. Ballard)
• The Ballad of Lost C´mell (Cordwainer Smith)
• Semley´s NEcklace (Ursula K. Le Guin)
• How Beautiful with Banners (James Blish)
• A Criminal Act (Harry Harrison)
• Problem of Creativeness (Thomas M. Disch)
• How the Whip Cam Back (Gene Wolfe)
• Cloak of Anarchy (Larry Niven)
• A Thing of Beauty (Norman Spinrad)
• The Screwly Solution (Raccoona Sheldon)
• The Way of Cross and Dragon (George R. R. Martin)
• Swarm (Bruce Sterling)
• Burning Chrome (William Gibson)
• Silicon Muse (Hilbert Schenck)
• Karl and he Ogre (Paul J. McAuley)
• Piecework (David Brin)

EDITED BY: Tom Shippey

COVER: hardback with cover

PAGES: 587

LANGUAGE: english