Modern Classics of Science Fiction

by Dozois, Gardner R.

• ISBN13: 9780312088477
• ISBN10: 0312088477
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-02-01
• Publisher: Griffin

Summary

Brian Aldiss William Gibson R.A. Lafferty Ursula K. Le Guin Lucius Shepard Bruce Sterling Theodore Sturgeon Howard Waldrop Connie Willis Gene Wolfe Roger Zelazny "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."

Author Biography

Gardner Dozois, one of the most acclaimed editors in science-fiction, has won the Hugo Award for Best Editor 15 times. He was the editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine for 20 years. He is the editor of the Year’s Best Science Fiction anthologies and co-editor of the Warrior anthologies, Songs of the Dying Earth, and many others.  As a writer, Dozois twice won the Nebula Award for best short story. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Preface	1	(6)
The Country of the Kind	7	(15)
Damon Knight
Aristotle and the Gun	22	(37)
L. Sprague de Camp
The Other Celia	59	(19)
Theodore Sturgeon
Casey Agonistes	78	(12)
Richard McKenna
Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons	90	(26)
Cordwainer Smith
The Moon Moth	116	(41)
Jack Vance
The Golden Horn	157	(39)
Edgar Pangborn
The Lady Margaret	196	(42)
Keith Roberts
This Moment of the Storm	238	(35)
Roger Zelazny
Narrow Valley	273	(14)
R. A. Lafferty
Driftglass	287	(22)
Samuel R. Delany
The Worm That Flies	309	(22)
Brian W. Aldiss
The Fifth Head of Cerberus	331	(66)
Gene Wolfe
Nobody's Home	397	(19)
Joanna Russ
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever	416	(21)
James Tiptree, Jr
The Barrow	437	(10)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Particle Theory	447	(25)
Edward Bryant
The Ugly Chickens	472	(27)
Howard Waldrop
Going Under	499	(22)
Jack Dann
Salvador	521	(22)
Lucius Shepard
Pretty Boy Crossover	543	(14)
Pat Cadigan
The Pure Product	557	(23)
John Kessel
The Winter Market	580	(23)
William Gibson
Chance	603	(34)
Connie Willis
The Edge of the World	637	(17)
Michael Swanwick
Dori Bangs	654	(17)
Bruce Sterling
Afterword	671