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The science fiction century

Author: David G Hartwell
Publisher: New York : Tor, 1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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An anthology of forty-six science-fiction stories drawn from throughout one hundred years of the genre, from its birth in the 1890s through the 1990s.
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Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David G Hartwell
ISBN: 0312863381 9780312863388
OCLC Number: 36241034
Notes: "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Description: 1005 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Beam us home / James Tiptree Jr. --
Ministering angels / C.S. Lewis --
The music master of Babylon / Edgar Pangborn --
A story of the days to come / H.G. Wells --
Hot planet / Hal Clement --
A work of art / James Blish --
The machine stops / E.M. Forster --
Brightness falls from the air / Margaret St. Clair --
2066: election day / Michael Shaara --
The rose / Charles Harness --
The hounds of Tindalos / Frank Belknap Long --
The angel of violence / Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg --
Nobody bothers Gus / Algis Budrys --
The time machine / Dino Buzzati --
Mother / Philip José Farmer --
As easy as ABC / Rudyard Kipling --
Ginungagap / Michael Swanwick --
Minister without portfolio / Mildred Clingerman --
Time in advance / William Tenn --
Good night, Sophie / Lino Aldani --
Veritas / James Morrow --
Enchanted village / A.E. van Vogt --
The king and the dollmaker / Wolfgang Jeschke --
Fire watch / Connie Willis --
Goat song / Poul Anderson --
The scarlet plague / Jack London --
Drunkboat / Cordwainer Smith --
Another world / J.H. Rosny aîné --
If the stars are gods / Gordon Eklund & Gregory Benford --
I still call Australia home / George Turner --
Liquid sunshine / Alexander Kuprin --
Great work of time / John Crowley --
Sundance / Robert Silverberg --
Greenslaves / Frank Herbert --
Rumfuddle / Jack Vance --
The dimple in Draco / Philip Latham --
Consider her ways / John Wyndham --
Something ending / Eddy C. Bertin --
He who shapes / Roger Zelazny --
Swarm / Bruce Sterling --
Beggars in Spain / Nancy Kress --
Johnny Mnemonic / William Gibson --
"Repent, Harlequin!" said the Ticktockman / Harlan Ellison --
Blood's a rover / Chad Oliver --
Sail the tide of mourning / Richard A. Lupoff.
Responsibility: edited by David G. Hartwell.
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An anthology of forty-six science-fiction stories drawn from throughout one hundred years of the genre, from its birth in the 1890s through the 1990s.

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