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The big book of science fiction : the ultimate collection / edited and with an introduction by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer.



Descriptionxxxi, 1178 pages ; 24 cm

Note: ContentThe star / H. G. Wells -- Sultana's dream / Rokheya Shekhawat Hossain -- The triumph of mechanics / Karl Hans Strobl -- The new overworld / Paul Scheerbart -- Elements of Pataphysics / Alfred Jarry -- Mechanopolis / Miguel de Unamuno -- The doom of Principal City / Yefim Zozulya -- The comet / W. E. B. Du Bois -- The fate of the Poseidonia / Clare Winger Harris -- The star stealers / Edmond Hamilton -- The conquest of Gola / Leslie F. Stone -- A Martian odyssey / Stanley G. Weinbaum -- The last poet and the robots / A t -- The microscopic giants / Paul Ernst -- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius / Jorge Luis Borges -- Desertion / Clifford D. Simak -- September 2005: the Martian / Ray Bradbury -- Baby HP / Juan José Arreola -- Surface tension / James Blish -- Beyond lies the Wub / Philip K. Dick -- The snowball effect / Katherine Maclean -- Prott / Margaret St. Clair -- The liberation of Earth / William Tenn -- Let me live in a house / Chad Oliver -- The star / Arthur C. Clarke -- Grandpa / James H. Schmitz -- The game of rat and dragon / Cordwainer Smith -- The last question / Isaac Asimov -- Stranger station / Damon Knight -- Sector general / James White -- The visitors / Arkady and Boris Strugatsky -- Pelt / Carol Emshwiller -- The monster / Gérard Klein -- The man who lost the sea / Theodore Sturgeon -- The waves / Silvina Ocampo -- Plenitude / Will Worthington -- The voices of time / J. G. Ballard -- The astronaut / Valentina Zhuravlyova -- The squid chooses its own ink / Adolfo Bioy Casares -- 2BRO2B / Kurt Vonnegut Jr. -- A modest genius / Vadim Shefner -- Day of Wrath / Sever Gansovsky -- The hands / John Baxter

Note: ContentDarkness / André Carneiro -- "Repent, Harlequin!" said the Ticktockman / Harlan Ellison -- Nine hundred grandmothers / R. A. Lafferty -- Day million / Frederik Pohl -- Student body / F. L. Wallace -- Aye, and Gomorrah / Samuel R. Delany -- The hall of machines / Langdon Jones -- Soft clocks / Yoshio Aramaki -- Three from Moderan / David R. Bunch -- Let us save the universe / Stanislaw Lem -- Vaster than empires and more slow / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Good news from the Vatican / Robert Silverberg -- When it changed / Joanna Russ -- And I awoke and found me here on the cold hill's side / James Tiptree Jr. -- Where two paths cross / Dmitri Bilenkin -- Standing woman / Yasutaka Tsutsui -- The IWM 1000 / Alicia Yánez Cossio -- The house of compassionate sharers / Michael Bishop -- Sporting with the Chid / Barrington J. Bayley -- Sandkings / George R. R. Martin -- Wives / Lisa Tuttle -- The snake who had read Chomsky / Josephine Saxton -- Reiko's universe box / Kajio Shinji -- Swarm / Bruce Sterling -- Mondocane / Jacques Barbéri -- Blood music / Greg Bear -- Bloodchild / Octavia E. Butler -- Variation on a man / Pat Cadigan -- Passing as a flower in the City of the Dead / S. N. Dyer -- New Rose Hotel / William Gibson -- Pots / C. J. Cherryh -- Snow / John Crowley -- The lake was full of artificial things / Karen Joy Fowler -- The unmistakable smell of wood violets / Angélica Gorodischer -- The owl of Bear Island / Jon Bing -- Readers of the lost art / Élizabeth Vonarburg -- A gift from the culture / Iain M. Banks -- Paranamanco / Jean-Claude Dunyach

Note: ContentCrying in the rain / Tanith Lee -- The frozen cardinal / Michael Moorcock -- Rachel in love / Pat Murphy -- Sharing air / Manjula Padmanabhan -- Schwarzschild radius / Connie Willis -- All the hues of hell / Gene Wolfe -- Vacuum states / Geoffrey A. Landis -- Two small birds / Han song -- Burning sky / Rachel Pollack -- Before I wake / Kim Stanley Robinson -- Death is static death is movement / Misha Nogha -- The brains of rats / Michael Blumlein -- Gorgonoids / Leena Krohn -- Vacancy for the post of Jesus Christ / Kojo Laing -- The universe of things -- Gwyneth Jones -- The Remoras / Robert Reed -- The ghost standard / William Tenn -- Remnants of the Virago crypto-system / Geoffrey Maloney -- How Alex became a machine / Stepan Chapman -- The poetry cloud / Cixin Liu -- Story of your life / Ted Chiang -- Craphound / Cory Doctorow -- The Slynx / Tatyana Tolstaya -- Baby doll / Johanna Sinisalo.

ISBN:9781101910092 (paperback)

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