The Norton Book of Science Fiction Author:Ursula K. Le Guin (Editor), Brian Attebery (Editor) North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990. The 67 selections are of American and Canadian works written between 1930 and 1960, the period of the genre's 'maturity' according to editor Le Guin. The well-written, hard-hitting, evocative stories, including 'New Wave' and 'experimental' works, cover the grim v... more »ision of xenophobia and mindless traditionalism plus social experiments and a wonderful testimony to enduring faith. 42% of the total of these remarkable stories are written by women science fiction writers.
Contents:
Introduction (The Norton Book of Science Fiction) • (1993) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Handler (1960) / Damon Knight
Alpha Ralpha Boulevard [The Instrumentality of Mankind] (1961) / Cordwainer Smith
Tandy's Story (1961) / Theodore Sturgeon
2064, or Thereabouts [Moderan] (1964) / David R. Bunch
Balanced Ecology (1965) / James H. Schmitz
The House the Blakeneys Built (1965) / by Avram Davidson
Over the River and Through the Woods (1965) / Clifford D. Simak
How Beautiful With Banners (1966) / James Blish
Nine Hundred Grandmothers (1966) / R. A. Lafferty
When I Was Miss Dow (1966) / Sonya Dorman [as by Sonya Dorman Hess]
Comes Now the Power (1966) / Roger Zelazny
Day Million (1966) / Frederik Pohl
The Winter Flies (1967) / Fritz Leiber
High Weir (1968) / Samuel R. Delany
Kyrie (1968) / Poul Anderson
For the Sake of Grace [Coyote Jones] (1969) / Suzette Haden Elgin
As Simple as That (1971) / Zenna Henderson
Good News from the Vatican (1971) / Robert Silverberg
Gather Blue Roses (1972) / Pamela Sargent
The Women Men Don't See (1973) / James Tiptree, Jr.
Feather Tigers (1973) / Gene Wolfe
The Mountains of Sunset, the Mountains of Dawn (1974) / Vonda N. McIntyre
The Private War of Private Jacob (1974) / Joe Haldeman
The Warlord of Saturn's Moons (1974) / Eleanor Arnason
Making It All the Way into the Future on Gaxton Falls of the Red Planet (1974) / Barry N. Malzberg
The New Atlantis (1975) / Ursula K. Le Guin
A Few Things I Know about Whileaway (1974) / Joanna Russ
Strange Wine (1976) / Harlan Ellison
Lollipop and the Tar Baby [Eight Worlds] (1977) / John Varley
Night-Rise (1978) / Katherine MacLean
Frozen Journey (1980) / Philip K. Dick
Precession (1980) / Edward Bryant
Elbow Room (1980) / Marion Zimmer Bradley
Tauf Aleph (1981) / Phyllis Gotlieb
Exposures (1981) / Gregory Benford
The Gernsback Continuum (1981) / William Gibson
The Start of the End of the World (1981) / Carol Emshwiller
Schrodinger's Plague (1982) / Greg Bear
". . .The World As We Know't" (1982) / Howard Waldrop
The Byrds (1983) / Michael G. Coney
Speech Sounds (1983) / Octavia E. Butler
Distant Signals (1984) / Andrew Weiner
The Lucky Strike (1984) / Kim Stanley Robinson
The Life of Anybody (1984) / Robert Sheckley
Interlocking Pieces (1984) / Molly Gloss
The War at Home (1985) / Lewis Shiner
The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things (1985) / Karen Joy Fowler
Snow (1985) / John Crowley
After the Days of Dead-Eye 'Dee (1985) / Pat Cadigan
The Bob Dylan Tambourine Software & Satori Support Services Consortium, Ltd. (1985) / Michael Bishop
His Vegetable Wife (1986) / Pat Murphy
The Brains of Rats (1986) / Michael Blumlein
Out of All Them Bright Stars (1985) / Nancy Kress
Rat (1986) /James Patrick Kelly
America [The Mormon Sea] (1987) / Orson Scott Card
Schwarzschild Radius (1987) / Connie Willis
Stable Strategies for Middle Management (1988) / Eileen Gunn
Kirinyaga [Kirinyaga • 2] (1988) / Mike Resnick
A Midwinter's Tale (1988) / Michael Swanwick
(Learning About) Machine Sex (1988) / Candas Jane Dorsey
We See Things Differently (1989) / Bruce Sterling
Half-Life (1989) / Paul Preuss
Homelanding (1989) / Margaret Atwood
And the Angels Sing (1990) / Kate Wilhelm
Aunt Parnetta's Electric Blisters (1991) / Diane Glancy
Midnight News (1990) / Lisa Goldstein
Invaders (1990) / John Kessel
Notes on the Authors (1993) • essay by the editors.