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Anthology Title:
The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection • anthology by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- xiii • Introduction (The Big Book of Science Fiction) • essay by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
- 1 • The Star • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells
- 9 • Sultana's Dream • (1905) • short story by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
- 17 • The Triumph of Mechanics • short story by Karl Hans Strobl (trans. of Der Triumph der Mechanik 1907)
- 25 • The New Overworld • short story by Paul Scheerbart (trans. of Die neue Oberwelt. Eine Venus-Novellette 1911)
- 30 • Elements of Pataphysics • short story by Alfred Jarry (trans. of Éléments de pataphysique 1911)
- 37 • Mechanopolis • short story by Miguel de Unamuno (trans. of Mecanópolis?Mecanopolis1913)
- 41 • The Doom of Principal City • short story by Ефим Зозуля?Yefim Zozulya(trans. ofГибель Главного города?Gibel' Glavnogo goroda1918) [as by Yefim Zozulya]
- 53 • The Comet • (1920) • short story by W. E. B. Du Bois
- 62 • The Fate of the Poseidonia • (1927) • short story by Clare Winger Harris
- 76 • The Star Stealers • [Interstellar Patrol • 2] • (1965) • novelette by Edmond Hamilton (variant of The Star-Stealers 1929)
- 98 • The Conquest of Gola • (1931) • short story by Leslie F. Stone
- 108 • A Martian Odyssey • [Tweel • 1] • (1934) • novelette by Stanley G. Weinbaum
- 124 • The Last Poet and the Robots • (1934) • short story by A. Merritt
- 133 • The Microscopic Giants • (1936) • short story by Paul Ernst
- 144 • Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius • (1998) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius?Tloen, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius1940)
- 156 • Desertion • [City] • (1944) • short story by Clifford D. Simak
- 164 • September 2005: The Martian • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Martian 1949)
- 173 • Baby HP • short story by Juan José Arreola (trans. of Baby H. P. 1952)
- 176 • Surface Tension • [Pantropy] • (1952) • novelette by James Blish
- 215 • Beyond Lies the Wub • (1952) • short story by Philip K. Dick
- 221 • The Snowball Effect • (1952) • short story by Katherine MacLean
- 230 • Prott • (1953) • short story by Margaret St. Clair
- 240 • The Liberation of Earth • (1953) • short story by William Tenn
- 252 • Let Me Live in a House • (1954) • novelette by Chad Oliver
- 270 • The Star • (1955) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
- 275 • Grandpa • [The Hub] • (1955) • novelette by James H. Schmitz
- 290 • The Game of Rat and Dragon • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1955) • short story by Cordwainer Smith
- 300 • The Last Question • [Multivac] • (1956) • short story by Isaac Asimov
- 309 • Stranger Station • (1956) • novelette by Damon Knight
- 325 • Sector General • [Sector General] • (1957) • novelette by James White
- 354 • The Visitors • novelette by Аркадий Стругацкий?Arkady StrugatskyandБорис Стругацкий?Boris Strugatsky(trans. ofИзвне?Izvne1958) [as by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky]
- 365 • Pelt • (1958) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
- 373 • The Monster • (1965) • short story by Gérard Klein?Gerard Klein(trans. of Le monstre 1958)
- 382 • The Man Who Lost the Sea • (1959) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
- 390 • The Waves • short story by Silvina Ocampo (trans. of Las ondas 1959)
- 395 • Plenitude • (1959) • short story by Will Mohler
- 403 • The Voices of Time • (1960) • novelette by J. G. Ballard
- 424 • The Astronaut • short story by Валентина Журавлёва?Valentina Zhuravlyova(trans. ofАстронавт?Astronavt1960) [as by Valentina Zhuravlyova]
- 436 • The Squid Chooses Its Own Ink • short story by Adolfo Bioy Casares (trans. of El calamar opta por su tinta 1962)
- 446 • 2 B R 0 2 B • (1962) • short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- 452 • A Modest Genius • (1973) • short story by Вадим Шефнер?Vadim Shefner(trans. ofСкромный гений?Skromnyy geniy1963) [as by Vadim Shefner]
- 462 • Day of Wrath • novelette by Север Гансовский?Sever Gansovsky(trans. ofДень гнева?Den' gneva1965) [as by Sever Gansovsky]
- 478 • The Hands • (1965) • short story by John Baxter
- 484 • Darkness • (1972) • short story by André Carneiro?Andre Carneiro(trans. ofA escuridăo?A escuridao1963)
- 491 • "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman • (1965) • short story by Harlan Ellison
- 500 • Nine Hundred Grandmothers • [Habitable Worlds] • (1966) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
- 508 • Day Million • (1966) • short story by Frederik Pohl
- 514 • Student Body • (1953) • novelette by F. L. Wallace
- 527 • Aye, and Gomorrah • (1970) • short story by Samuel R. Delany (variant of Aye, and Gomorrah ... 1967)
- 534 • The Hall of Machines • (1968) • short story by Langdon Jones
- 542 • Soft Clocks • (1989) • short story by 荒巻義雄?あらまきよしお(trans. of
Yoshio Aramaki柔らかい時計?Yawarakai Tokei1968) [as by Yoshio Aramaki] - 555 • No Cracks or Sagging • [Moderan] • (1970) • short story by David R. Bunch (variant of No Cracks or Saggings)
- 562 • New Kings Are Not for Laughing • [Moderan] • (1971) • short story by David R. Bunch
- 566 • The Flesh Man from Far Wide • [Moderan] • short story by David R. Bunch (variant of The Flesh-Man from Far Wide 1959)
- 569 • Let Us Save the Universe (An Open Letter from Ijon Tichy) • [Ze wspomnień Ijona Tichego / From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy?Ze wspomnien Ijona Tichego / From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy] • (1981) • short story byStanisław Lem?Stanislaw Lem(trans. of Ratujmy kosmos 1964) [as by Stanislaw Lem]
- 577 • Vaster Than Empires and More Slow • [Hainish] • (1971) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
- 596 • Good News from the Vatican • (1971) • short story by Robert Silverberg
- 602 • When It Changed • [Whileaway] • (1972) • short story by Joanna Russ
- 608 • And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side • (1972) • short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
- 615 • Where Two Paths Cross • short story by Дмитрий Биленкин?Dmitri Bilenkin(trans. of
Dmitriy BilenkinПересечение пути?Peresechenie puti1973) [as by Dmitri Bilenkin] - 625 • Standing Woman • (1981) • short story by 筒井康隆?つついやすたか(trans. of
Tsutsui Yasutaka佇むひと?Tatazumu Hito1974) [as by Yasutaka Tsutsui] - 632 • The IWM 1000 • (1990) • short story by Alicia Yánez Cossío (trans. of La IWM mil 1975)
- 636 • The House of Compassionate Sharers • [Glaktik Komm] • (1977) • novelette by Michael Bishop
- 655 • Sporting with the Chid • (1979) • short story by Barrington J. Bayley
- 667 • Sandkings • [Thousand Worlds] • (1979) • novelette by George R. R. Martin
- 692 • Wives • (1979) • short story by Lisa Tuttle
- 699 • The Snake Who Had Read Chomsky • (1981) • novelette by Josephine Saxton
- 712 • Reiko's Universe Box • (2007) • short story by 梶尾真治?Shinji Kajio(trans. of
かじおしんじ玲子の箱宇宙?Reiko no Hako Uchū) [as by Kajio Shinji] - 720 • Swarm • [Shaper/Mechanist] • (1982) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
- 736 • Mondocane • short story by Jacques Barbéri?Jacques Barberi(trans. of Mondocane 1983)
- 740 • Blood Music • (1983) • novelette by Greg Bear
- 755 • Bloodchild • (1984) • novelette by Octavia E. Butler
- 768 • Variation on a Man • [Deadpan Allie] • (1984) • short story by Pat Cadigan
- 782 • Passing As a Flower in the City of the Dead • (1984) • short story by Sharon N. Farber
- 794 • New Rose Hotel • [Neuromancer / Sprawl Trilogy] • (1984) • short story by William Gibson
- 802 • Pots • (1985) • novelette by C. J. Cherryh
- 820 • Snow • (1985) • short story by John Crowley
- 830 • The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things • (1985) • short story by Karen Joy Fowler
- 839 • The Unmistakable Smell of Wood Violets • short story by Angélica Gorodischer (trans. of El inconfundible aroma de las violetas silvestres 1991)
- 846 • The Owl of Bear Island • (1986) • short story by Jon Bing (trans. of Ugle pĺ Bjřrnřya?Ugle pa Bjornoya)
- 853 • Readers of the Lost Art • (1996) • short story by Élisabeth Vonarburg?Elisabeth Vonarburg(trans. of La carte du Tendre 1986)
- 864 • A Gift from the Culture • [Culture] • (1987) • short story by Iain M. Banks
- 875 • Paranamanco • short story by Jean-Claude Dunyach (trans. of Paranamanco 1988)
- 886 • Crying in the Rain • (1987) • short story by Tanith Lee
- 897 • The Frozen Cardinal • (1987) • short story by Michael Moorcock
- 905 • Rachel in Love • (1987) • novelette by Pat Murphy
- 924 • Sharing Air • (1984) • short story by Manjula Padmanabhan
- 928 • Schwarzschild Radius • (1987) • short story by Connie Willis
- 940 • All the Hues of Hell • (1987) • short story by Gene Wolfe
- 949 • Vacuum States • (1988) • short story by Geoffrey A. Landis
- 955 • Two Small Birds • short story by 韩松?Han Song(trans. of两只小鸟?Liǎng zhī xiǎo niǎo1998) [as by Han Song]
Liang zhi xiao niao - 961 • Burning Sky • (1989) • short story by Rachel Pollack
- 969 • Before I Wake • (1989) • short story by Kim Stanley Robinson
- 977 • Death Is Static Death Is Movement • short story by Misha [as by Misha Nogha]
- 991 • The Brains of Rats • (1986) • short story by Michael Blumlein
- 1002 • Gorgonoids • (2016) • short fiction by Leena Krohn
- 1008 • Vacancy for the Post of Jesus Christ • (1992) • short story by Kojo Laing
- 1016 • The Universe of Things • (1993) • short story by Gwyneth Jones
- 1024 • The Remoras • [The Great Ship Universe] • (1994) • novelette by Robert Reed
- 1044 • The Ghost Standard • (1994) • short story by William Tenn
- 1051 • Remnants of the Virago Crypto-System • (1995) • short story by Geoffrey Maloney
- 1056 • How Alex Became a Machine • novelette by Stepan Chapman
- 1076 • The Poetry Cloud • (2012) • short story by Cixin Liu (trans. of 诗云?Shī yún2003) [as by Liu Cixin]
Shi yun - 1097 • Story of Your Life • (1998) • novella by Ted Chiang
- 1126 • Craphound • (1998) • short story by Cory Doctorow
- 1138 • The Slynx (excerpt) • short fiction by Татьяна Толстая?Tat'yana Tolstaya[as by Tatyana Tolstaya]
Tat'jana Tolstaja - 1146 • Baby Doll • (2007) • novelette by Johanna Sinisalo (trans. of Baby Doll 2002)
- 1163 • About the Editors (The Big Book of Science Fiction) • essay by uncredited
- 1165 • About the Translators (The Big Book of Science Fiction) • essay by uncredited
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