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9780195032727

Science Fiction A Historical Anthology

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195032727

  • ISBN10:

    0195032721

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1983-04-07
  • Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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An invaluable contribution to the serious study of science fiction as well as a highly entertaining collection, Science Fiction contains 27 chronologically-arranged stories and excerpts, ranging from such early classic works as Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Shelley's Frankenstein to recentstories such as Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" and Ursula K. Le Guin's "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow." Including brief general essays and a separate introduction to each individual story or excerpt, Rabkin's anthology greatly illuminates the evolution of the genre.

Table of Contents

Introduction 3(9)
Part 1: The Emergence of Modern Science 9(62)
From Other Worlds (1657)
13(22)
Cyrano de Bergerac
From Gulliver's Travels (1726)
35(15)
Jonathan Swift
Micromegas (1752)
50(21)
Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
Part 2: Nineteenth Century 71(148)
The Sand-Man (1816)
75(37)
E. T. A. Hoffmann
From Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818)
112(22)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A Descent into the Maelstrom (1841)
134(17)
Edgar Allan Poe
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845)
151(10)
Rappaccini's Daughter (1844)
161(32)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
From Looking Backward ``2000-1887'' (1888)
193(15)
Edward Bellamy
A Curious Fragment (1908)
208(11)
Jack London
Part 3: Early Twentieth Century 219(96)
The Star (1899)
222(11)
H. G. Wells
From Ralph 124C 41+ (1911)
233(16)
Hugo Gernsback
The Last Poet and the Robots (1934)
249(15)
Abraham Merritt
Twilight (1934)
264(22)
John W. Campbell
From Star Maker (1937)
286(29)
Olaf Stapledon
Part 4: The Golden Years (1940-1965) 315(112)
Reason (1941)
318(20)
Isaac Asimov
Desertion (1944)
338(13)
Clifford D. Simak
The City (1950)
351(8)
Ray Bradbury
The Third Level (1952)
359(5)
Jack Finney
The Star (1955)
364(7)
Arthur C. Clarke
Flowers for Algernon (1959)
371(31)
Daniel Keyes
All You Zombies-- (1960)
402(13)
Robert A. Heinlein
Earth Eighteen (1966)
415(12)
Frederick Pohl
Part 5: The Modern Period 427(100)
For a Breath I Tarry (1966)
428(39)
Roger Zelazny
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (1967)
467(16)
Harlan Ellison
Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? (1969)
483(11)
Robert Sheckley
Vaster Than Empires and More Slow (1971)
494(33)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Index 527

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