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9780192803818

The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories

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  • ISBN13:

    9780192803818

  • ISBN10:

    0192803816

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-04-17
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

A collection of classic science fiction short stories features tales by H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clark, Frederik Pohl, Clifford Simak, Brian Aldiss, Ursula K. LeGuin, and many others. Edited by the author of "The Road to Middle-Earth."

Author Biography


Tom Shippey inherited J. R. R. Tolkien's Chair of Medieval English Language at the University of Leeds, and now holds the Walter J. Ong Chair of Humanities at St Louis University, Missouri, specializing in Medieval Literature, Old English Arthurian and Romance Literature, Fantasy, and Science Fiction. He has written and edited numerous books, including J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (2001).

Table of Contents

Introductionp. ix
The Land Ironclads (1903)p. 1
Finis (1906)p. 22
As Easy as ABC (1912)p. 33
The Metal Man (1928)p. 59
A Martian Odyssey (1934)p. 70
Night (1935)p. 95
Desertion (1944)p. 115
The Piper's Son (1945)p. 127
The Monster (1948)p. 154
The Second Night of Summer (1950)p. 171
Second Dawn (1951)p. 198
Crucifixus Etiam (1953)p. 228
The Tunnel Under the World (1955)p. 247
Who Can Replace a Man? (1958)p. 278
Billennium (1961)p. 287
The Ballad of Lost C'mell (1962)p. 302
Semley's Necklace (1964)p. 322
How Beautiful with Banners (1966)p. 340
A Criminal Act (1967)p. 350
Problems of Creativeness (1967)p. 363
How the Whip Came Back (1970)p. 385
Cloak of Anarchy (1972)p. 400
A Thing of Beauty (1973)p. 420
The Screwfly Solution (1977)p. 435
The Way of Cross and Dragon (1978)p. 454
Swarm (1982)p. 472
Burning Chrome (1982)p. 496
Silicon Muse (1984)p. 516
Karl and the Ogre (1988)p. 535
Piecework (1990)p. 550
Select Bibliographyp. 577
Sourcesp. 583
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