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Anthology Title:
The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF • (1994) • anthology by Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- 15 • Real Science, Imaginary Worlds • (1994) • essay by Gregory Benford
- 24 • On Science and Science Fiction • (1993) • essay by Kathryn Cramer
- 30 • Hard Science Fiction • (1993) • essay by David G. Hartwell
- 43 • Nine Lives • (1969) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
- 61 • Light of Other Days • [Slow Glass] • (1966) • short story by Bob Shaw
- 68 • Rappaccini's Daughter • [Rappaccini • 1] • (1844) • novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 86 • The Star • (1955) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
- 91 • Proof • (1942) • short story by Hal Clement
- 103 • "It's Great to Be Back!" • [Future History] • (1947) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein
- 116 • Procreation • (1983) • short story by Gene Wolfe
- 122 • Mimsy Were the Borogoves • (1943) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
- 144 • Davey Jones' Ambassador • (1935) • novelette by Raymond Z. Gallun
- 166 • The Life and Times of Multivac • [Multivac] • (1975) • short story by Isaac Asimov
- 174 • The Singing Diamond • ['Red' Vengeance • 1] • (1979) • short story by Robert L. Forward
- 180 • Down & Out on Ellfive Prime • (1979) • novelette by Dean Ing
- 196 • Send Me a Kiss by Wire • (1985) • short story by Hilbert Schenck
- 208 • The Xi Effect • (1950) • short story by R. S. Richardson [as by Philip Latham]
- 222 • A Descent Into the Maelstrom • (1852) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of A Descent Into the Maelström?A Descent Into the Maelstrom1841)
A Descent Into the Maelstroem - 233 • Exposures • (1981) • short story by Gregory Benford
- 243 • The Planners • (1968) • short story by Kate Wilhelm
- 254 • Beep • (1954) • novelette by James Blish
- 278 • Drode's Equations • (1981) • novelette by Richard Grant
- 288 • The Weather Man • (1962) • novella by Theodore L. Thomas
- 313 • Transit of Earth • (1971) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
- 323 • Prima Belladonna • [Vermilion Sands] • (1956) • short story by J. G. Ballard
- 333 • To Bring in the Steel • (1978) • novelette by Donald Kingsbury
- 360 • Gomez • (1954) • novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
- 377 • Waterclap • (1970) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
- 398 • Weyr Search • [Dragonriders of Pern short fiction] • (1967) • novella by Anne McCaffrey
- 434 • Message Found in a Copy of Flatland • (1983) • short story by Rudy Rucker
- 442 • The Cold Equations • [Cold Equations (Godwin)] • (1954) • novelette by Tom Godwin
- 459 • The Land Ironclads • (1903) • novelette by H. G. Wells
- 474 • The Hole Man • (1974) • short story by Larry Niven
- 484 • Atomic Power • (1934) • short story by John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by Don A. Stuart]
- 494 • Stop Evolution in Its Tracks! • (1988) • short story by John Sladek
- 499 • The Hungry Guinea Pig • (1930) • novelette by Miles J. Breuer, M.D.
- 514 • The Very Slow Time Machine • (1978) • novelette by Ian Watson
- 528 • The Beautiful and the Sublime • (1986) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
- 547 • "The Author of the Acacia Seeds" and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics • (1983) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin (variant of The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics 1974)
- 553 • Heat of Fusion • (1984) • short story by John M. Ford
- 564 • Dolphin's Way • (1964) • short story by Gordon R. Dickson
- 576 • All the Hues of Hell • (1987) • short story by Gene Wolfe
- 585 • Occam's Scalpel • (1971) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
- 600 • giANTS • (1979) • short story by Edward Bryant
- 612 • Time Fuze • (1954) • short story by Randall Garrett
- 616 • Desertion • [City] • (1944) • short story by Clifford D. Simak
- 627 • Kyrie • (1968) • short story by Poul Anderson
- 635 • The Person from Porlock • (1947) • short story by Raymond F. Jones
- 651 • Day Million • (1966) • short story by Frederik Pohl
- 656 • The Cage of Sand • (1962) • novelette by J. G. Ballard
- 672 • The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats • (1976) • novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
- 689 • In the Year 2889 • (1889) • short story by Jules Verne and Michel Verne (trans. of La journée d'un journaliste américain en 2890 1890) [as by Jules Verne]
- 700 • Surface Tension • [Pantropy] • (1952) • novelette by James Blish
- 724 • No, No, Not Rogov! • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1959) • short story by Cordwainer Smith
- 737 • In a Petri Dish Upstairs • (1978) • novelette by George Turner
- 758 • With the Night Mail • [Aerial Board of Control • 1] • (1905) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
- 788 • The Longest Science-Fiction Story Ever Told • (1966) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
- 790 • The Pi Man • (1959) • short story by Alfred Bester
- 803 • Relativistic Effects • (1982) • novelette by Gregory Benford
- 818 • Making Light • (1981) • short story by James P. Hogan
- 826 • The Last Question • [Multivac] • (1956) • short story by Isaac Asimov
- 835 • The Indefatigable Frog • (1953) • short story by Philip K. Dick
- 843 • Chromatic Aberration • (1984) • novelette by John M. Ford
- 864 • The Snowball Effect • (1952) • short story by Katherine MacLean
- 873 • The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck • (1978) • novelette by Hilbert Schenck
- 892 • Tangents • (1986) • short story by Greg Bear
- 904 • Johnny Mnemonic • [Neuromancer / Sprawl Trilogy] • (1981) • short story by William Gibson
- 917 • What Continues, What Fails ... • (1991) • novelette by David Brin
- 937 • Mammy Morgan Played the Organ, Her Daddy Beat the Drum • (1990) • novella by Michael F. Flynn
- 967 • Bookworm, Run! • (1966) • novelette by Vernor Vinge
- 989 • Appendix: Another Path Through the Book (The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF) • (1994) • essay by Kathryn Cramer
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