The big book of science fiction : the ultimate collection /
The big book of science fiction : the ultimate collection /
edited and with an introduction by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer.
- xxxi, 1178 pages ; 24 cm
The star / Sultana's dream / The triumph of mechanics / The new overworld / Elements of Pataphysics / Mechanopolis / The doom of Principal City / The comet / The fate of the Poseidonia / The star stealers / The conquest of Gola / A Martian odyssey / The last poet and the robots / The microscopic giants / Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius / Desertion / September 2005: the Martian / Baby HP / Surface tension / Beyond lies the Wub / The snowball effect / Prott / The liberation of Earth / Let me live in a house / The star / Grandpa / The game of rat and dragon / The last question / Stranger station / Sector general / The visitors / Pelt / The monster / The man who lost the sea / The waves / Plenitude / The voices of time / The astronaut / The squid chooses its own ink / 2BRO2B / A modest genius / Day of Wrath / The hands / H. G. Wells -- Rokheya Shekhawat Hossain -- Karl Hans Strobl -- Paul Scheerbart -- Alfred Jarry -- Miguel de Unamuno -- Yefim Zozulya -- W. E. B. Du Bois -- Clare Winger Harris -- Edmond Hamilton -- Leslie F. Stone -- Stanley G. Weinbaum -- A t -- Paul Ernst -- Jorge Luis Borges -- Clifford D. Simak -- Ray Bradbury -- Juan José Arreola -- James Blish -- Philip K. Dick -- Katherine Maclean -- Margaret St. Clair -- William Tenn -- Chad Oliver -- Arthur C. Clarke -- James H. Schmitz -- Cordwainer Smith -- Isaac Asimov -- Damon Knight -- James White -- Arkady and Boris Strugatsky -- Carol Emshwiller -- Gérard Klein -- Theodore Sturgeon -- Silvina Ocampo -- Will Worthington -- J. G. Ballard -- Valentina Zhuravlyova -- Adolfo Bioy Casares -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr. -- Vadim Shefner -- Sever Gansovsky -- John Baxter Darkness / "Repent, Harlequin!" said the Ticktockman / Nine hundred grandmothers / Day million / Student body / Aye, and Gomorrah / The hall of machines / Soft clocks / Three from Moderan / Let us save the universe / Vaster than empires and more slow / Good news from the Vatican / When it changed / And I awoke and found me here on the cold hill's side / Where two paths cross / Standing woman / The IWM 1000 / The house of compassionate sharers / Sporting with the Chid / Sandkings / Wives / The snake who had read Chomsky / Reiko's universe box / Swarm / Mondocane / Blood music / Bloodchild / Variation on a man / Passing as a flower in the City of the Dead / New Rose Hotel / Pots / Snow / The lake was full of artificial things / The unmistakable smell of wood violets / The owl of Bear Island / Readers of the lost art / A gift from the culture / Paranamanco / André Carneiro -- Harlan Ellison -- R. A. Lafferty -- Frederik Pohl -- F. L. Wallace -- Samuel R. Delany -- Langdon Jones -- Yoshio Aramaki -- David R. Bunch -- Stanislaw Lem -- Ursula K. Le Guin -- Robert Silverberg -- Joanna Russ -- James Tiptree Jr. -- Dmitri Bilenkin -- Yasutaka Tsutsui -- Alicia Yánez Cossio -- Michael Bishop -- Barrington J. Bayley -- George R. R. Martin -- Lisa Tuttle -- Josephine Saxton -- Kajio Shinji -- Bruce Sterling -- Jacques Barbéri -- Greg Bear -- Octavia E. Butler -- Pat Cadigan -- S. N. Dyer -- William Gibson -- C. J. Cherryh -- John Crowley -- Karen Joy Fowler -- Angélica Gorodischer -- Jon Bing -- Élizabeth Vonarburg -- Iain M. Banks -- Jean-Claude Dunyach Crying in the rain / The frozen cardinal / Rachel in love / Sharing air / Schwarzschild radius / All the hues of hell / Vacuum states / Two small birds / Burning sky / Before I wake / Death is static death is movement / The brains of rats / Gorgonoids / Vacancy for the post of Jesus Christ / The universe of things -- Gwyneth Jones -- The Remoras / The ghost standard / Remnants of the Virago crypto-system / How Alex became a machine / The poetry cloud / Story of your life / Craphound / The Slynx / Baby doll / Tanith Lee -- Michael Moorcock -- Pat Murphy -- Manjula Padmanabhan -- Connie Willis -- Gene Wolfe -- Geoffrey A. Landis -- Han song -- Rachel Pollack -- Kim Stanley Robinson -- Misha Nogha -- Michael Blumlein -- Leena Krohn -- Kojo Laing -- Robert Reed -- William Tenn -- Geoffrey Maloney -- Stepan Chapman -- Cixin Liu -- Ted Chiang -- Cory Doctorow -- Tatyana Tolstaya -- Johanna Sinisalo.
What if life was neverending? What if you could change your body to adapt to an alien ecology? What if the pope were a robot? Spanning galaxies and millennia, this must-have anthology showcases classic contributions from H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Octavia E. Butler, and Kurt Vonnegut, alongside a century of the eccentrics, rebels, and visionaries who have inspired generations of readers. Within its pages, you’ll find beloved worlds of space opera, hard SF, cyberpunk, the New Wave, and more. Learn about the secret history of science fiction, from titans of literature who also wrote SF to less well-known authors from more than twenty-five countries, some never before translated into English. In The Big Book of Science Fiction, literary power couple Ann and Jeff VanderMeer transport readers from Mars to Mechanopolis, planet Earth to parts unknown. Immerse yourself in the genre that predicted electric cars, space tourism, and smartphones. Sit back, buckle up, and dial in the coordinates, as this stellar anthology has got worlds within worlds.
9781101910092 1101910097
2015042397
Science fiction--20th century.
Science fiction--21st century.
Science fiction.
The star / Sultana's dream / The triumph of mechanics / The new overworld / Elements of Pataphysics / Mechanopolis / The doom of Principal City / The comet / The fate of the Poseidonia / The star stealers / The conquest of Gola / A Martian odyssey / The last poet and the robots / The microscopic giants / Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius / Desertion / September 2005: the Martian / Baby HP / Surface tension / Beyond lies the Wub / The snowball effect / Prott / The liberation of Earth / Let me live in a house / The star / Grandpa / The game of rat and dragon / The last question / Stranger station / Sector general / The visitors / Pelt / The monster / The man who lost the sea / The waves / Plenitude / The voices of time / The astronaut / The squid chooses its own ink / 2BRO2B / A modest genius / Day of Wrath / The hands / H. G. Wells -- Rokheya Shekhawat Hossain -- Karl Hans Strobl -- Paul Scheerbart -- Alfred Jarry -- Miguel de Unamuno -- Yefim Zozulya -- W. E. B. Du Bois -- Clare Winger Harris -- Edmond Hamilton -- Leslie F. Stone -- Stanley G. Weinbaum -- A t -- Paul Ernst -- Jorge Luis Borges -- Clifford D. Simak -- Ray Bradbury -- Juan José Arreola -- James Blish -- Philip K. Dick -- Katherine Maclean -- Margaret St. Clair -- William Tenn -- Chad Oliver -- Arthur C. Clarke -- James H. Schmitz -- Cordwainer Smith -- Isaac Asimov -- Damon Knight -- James White -- Arkady and Boris Strugatsky -- Carol Emshwiller -- Gérard Klein -- Theodore Sturgeon -- Silvina Ocampo -- Will Worthington -- J. G. Ballard -- Valentina Zhuravlyova -- Adolfo Bioy Casares -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr. -- Vadim Shefner -- Sever Gansovsky -- John Baxter Darkness / "Repent, Harlequin!" said the Ticktockman / Nine hundred grandmothers / Day million / Student body / Aye, and Gomorrah / The hall of machines / Soft clocks / Three from Moderan / Let us save the universe / Vaster than empires and more slow / Good news from the Vatican / When it changed / And I awoke and found me here on the cold hill's side / Where two paths cross / Standing woman / The IWM 1000 / The house of compassionate sharers / Sporting with the Chid / Sandkings / Wives / The snake who had read Chomsky / Reiko's universe box / Swarm / Mondocane / Blood music / Bloodchild / Variation on a man / Passing as a flower in the City of the Dead / New Rose Hotel / Pots / Snow / The lake was full of artificial things / The unmistakable smell of wood violets / The owl of Bear Island / Readers of the lost art / A gift from the culture / Paranamanco / André Carneiro -- Harlan Ellison -- R. A. Lafferty -- Frederik Pohl -- F. L. Wallace -- Samuel R. Delany -- Langdon Jones -- Yoshio Aramaki -- David R. Bunch -- Stanislaw Lem -- Ursula K. Le Guin -- Robert Silverberg -- Joanna Russ -- James Tiptree Jr. -- Dmitri Bilenkin -- Yasutaka Tsutsui -- Alicia Yánez Cossio -- Michael Bishop -- Barrington J. Bayley -- George R. R. Martin -- Lisa Tuttle -- Josephine Saxton -- Kajio Shinji -- Bruce Sterling -- Jacques Barbéri -- Greg Bear -- Octavia E. Butler -- Pat Cadigan -- S. N. Dyer -- William Gibson -- C. J. Cherryh -- John Crowley -- Karen Joy Fowler -- Angélica Gorodischer -- Jon Bing -- Élizabeth Vonarburg -- Iain M. Banks -- Jean-Claude Dunyach Crying in the rain / The frozen cardinal / Rachel in love / Sharing air / Schwarzschild radius / All the hues of hell / Vacuum states / Two small birds / Burning sky / Before I wake / Death is static death is movement / The brains of rats / Gorgonoids / Vacancy for the post of Jesus Christ / The universe of things -- Gwyneth Jones -- The Remoras / The ghost standard / Remnants of the Virago crypto-system / How Alex became a machine / The poetry cloud / Story of your life / Craphound / The Slynx / Baby doll / Tanith Lee -- Michael Moorcock -- Pat Murphy -- Manjula Padmanabhan -- Connie Willis -- Gene Wolfe -- Geoffrey A. Landis -- Han song -- Rachel Pollack -- Kim Stanley Robinson -- Misha Nogha -- Michael Blumlein -- Leena Krohn -- Kojo Laing -- Robert Reed -- William Tenn -- Geoffrey Maloney -- Stepan Chapman -- Cixin Liu -- Ted Chiang -- Cory Doctorow -- Tatyana Tolstaya -- Johanna Sinisalo.
What if life was neverending? What if you could change your body to adapt to an alien ecology? What if the pope were a robot? Spanning galaxies and millennia, this must-have anthology showcases classic contributions from H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Octavia E. Butler, and Kurt Vonnegut, alongside a century of the eccentrics, rebels, and visionaries who have inspired generations of readers. Within its pages, you’ll find beloved worlds of space opera, hard SF, cyberpunk, the New Wave, and more. Learn about the secret history of science fiction, from titans of literature who also wrote SF to less well-known authors from more than twenty-five countries, some never before translated into English. In The Big Book of Science Fiction, literary power couple Ann and Jeff VanderMeer transport readers from Mars to Mechanopolis, planet Earth to parts unknown. Immerse yourself in the genre that predicted electric cars, space tourism, and smartphones. Sit back, buckle up, and dial in the coordinates, as this stellar anthology has got worlds within worlds.
9781101910092 1101910097
2015042397
Science fiction--20th century.
Science fiction--21st century.
Science fiction.