The big book of science fiction : the ultimate collection

Summary: "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."--Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781101910092
ISBN: 1101910097
Physical Description: print
xxxi, 1178 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016.
Copyright: ©2016.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Star / H. G. Wells -- Sultana's dream / Rokheya Shekhawat Hossain -- Triumph of mechanics / Karl Hans Strobl -- New overworld / Paul Scheerbart -- Elements of Pataphysics / Alfred Jarry -- Mechanopolis / Miguel de Unamuno -- Doom of Principal City / Yefim Zozulya -- Comet / W. E. B. Du Bois -- Fate of the Poseidonia / Clare Winger Harris -- Star stealers / Edmond Hamilton -- Conquest of Gola / Leslie F. Stone -- A Martian odyssey / Stanley G. Weinbaum -- Last poet and the robots / A t -- Microscopic giants / Paul Ernst -- Tl©œn, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius / Jorge Luis Borges -- Desertion / Clifford D. Simak -- September 2005: the Martian / Ray Bradbury -- Baby HP / Juan Jos©♭ Arreola -- Surface tension / James Blish -- Beyond lies the Wub / Philip K. Dick -- Snowball effect / Katherine Maclean -- Prott / Margaret St. Clair -- Liberation of Earth / William Tenn -- Let me live in a house / Chad Oliver -- Star / Arthur C. Clarke -- Grandpa / James H. Schmitz -- Game of rat and dragon / Cordwainer Smith -- Last question / Isaac Asimov -- Stranger station / Damon Knight -- Sector general / James White -- Visitors / Arkady and Boris Strugatsky -- Pelt / Carol Emshwiller -- Monster / G©♭rard Klein -- Man who lost the sea / Theodore Sturgeon -- Waves / Silvina Ocampo -- Plenitude / Will Worthington -- Voices of time / J. G. Ballard -- Astronaut / Valentina Zhuravlyova -- Squid chooses its own ink / Adolfo Bioy Casares -- 2BRO2B / Kurt Vonnegut Jr. -- A modest genius / Vadim Shefner -- Day of Wrath / Sever Gansovsky -- Hands / John Baxter -- Darkness / Andr©♭ 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 -- 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 -- IWM 1000 / Alicia Y©Łnez Cossio -- House of compassionate sharers / Michael Bishop -- Sporting with the Chid / Barrington J. Bayley -- Sandkings / George R. R. Martin -- Wives / Lisa Tuttle -- Snake who had read Chomsky / Josephine Saxton -- Reiko's universe box / Kajio Shinji -- Swarm / Bruce Sterling -- Mondocane / Jacques Barb©♭ri -- 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 -- Lake was full of artificial things / Karen Joy Fowler -- Unmistakable smell of wood violets / Ang©♭lica Gorodischer -- Owl of Bear Island / Jon Bing -- Readers of the lost art / ©lizabeth Vonarburg -- A gift from the culture / Iain M. Banks -- Paranamanco / Jean-Claude Dunyach -- Crying in the rain / Tanith Lee -- 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 -- Brains of rats / Michael Blumlein -- Gorgonoids / Leena Krohn -- Vacancy for the post of Jesus Christ / Kojo Laing -- Universe of things -- Gwyneth Jones -- Remoras / Robert Reed -- Ghost standard / William Tenn -- Remnants of the Virago crypto-system / Geoffrey Maloney -- How Alex became a machine / Stepan Chapman -- Poetry cloud / Cixin Liu -- Story of your life / Ted Chiang -- Craphound / Cory Doctorow -- Slynx / Tatyana Tolstaya -- Baby doll / Johanna Sinisalo.