Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories

Name: Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
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ISBN: 9780192803818

ISBN-10: 0192803816

ISBN-13: 9780192803818

Edition: 2003

Authors: Tom Shippey, Tom Shippey

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This is the definitive collection of the twentieth-century's most characteristic genre--science fiction. The tales are organized chronologically to give readers a sense of how the genre's range, vitality, and literary quality have evolved over time. Each tale offers a unique vision, an altered reality, a universe all its own. Readers can sample H.G. Well's 1903 story "The Land Ironclads" (which predicted the stalemate of trench warfare and the invention of the tank), Jack Williamson's "The Metal Man," a rarely anthologized gem written in 1928, Clifford D. Simak's 1940s classic, "Desertion," set on "the howling maelstrom that was Jupiter," Frederik Pohl's 1955 "The Tunnel Under the World"…

Book details

List price: $20.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/17/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 624
Size: 5.04" wide x 7.76" long x 1.32" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Introduction


The Land Ironclads (1903)



Finis (1906)



As Easy as ABC (1912)



The Metal Man (1928)



A Martian Odyssey (1934)



Night (1935)



Desertion (1944)



The Piper's Son (1945)



The Monster (1948)



The Second Night of Summer (1950)



Second Dawn (1951)



Crucifixus Etiam (1953)



The Tunnel Under the World (1955)



Who Can Replace a Man? (1958)



Billennium (1961)



The Ballad of Lost C'mell (1962)



Semley's Necklace (1964)



How Beautiful with Banners (1966)



A Criminal Act (1967)



Problems of Creativeness (1967)



How the Whip Came Back (1970)



Cloak of Anarchy (1972)



A Thing of Beauty (1973)



The Screwfly Solution (1977)



The Way of Cross and Dragon (1978)



Swarm (1982)



Burning Chrome (1982)



Silicon Muse (1984)



Karl and the Ogre (1988)



Piecework (1990)



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