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Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology

by Rabkin, Eric S.

ISBN13: 9780195032727
ISBN10: 0195032721
Additional ISBN(s): 9780195032710
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 1983-04-07
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Summary

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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