The road to science fiction /
Anthology of science fiction, mostly short stories
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New York :
New American Library,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. from Gilgamesh to Wells
- 2. from Wells to Heinlein
- 3. from Heinlein to Here. Beyond these horizons ; "All you zombies" / by Robert A. Heinlein ; The clear, cool voice of Asimov ; Reason / by Isaac Asimov ; The Simak reservation ; Desertion / by Clifford D. Simak ; Mimsy were the Kuttners ; Mimsy were the borogroves / by Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore) ; The Bradbury chronicles ; The million-year picnic / by Ray Bradbury ; More than SF ; Thunder and roses / by Theordore Sturgeon ; Ecce femina ; That only a mother / by Judith Merril ; A matter of time ; Brooklyn project / by William Tenn (Philip Klass) ; The social side ; Coming attraction / by Fritz Leiber ; The expanding universe ; The sentinel / by Arthur C. Clarke ; Farmerworld ; Sail on! Sail on! / by Philip José Farmer ; The science in science fiction ; Critical factor / by Hal Clement ; Why not literature? ; Fondly Fahrenheit / by Alfred Bester ; A touch of stone ; The cold equations / by Tom Godwin ; The ballads of Lost C. Smith ; The game of rat and dragon / by Cordwainer Smith ; Scalpel of wit ; Pilgrimage to earth / by Robert Sheckley ; The British are coming! ; Who can replace a man? / by Brian W. Aldiss ; The sirens of mainstream ; Harrison Bergeron / by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ; That old-time religion ; The streets of Ashkelon / by Harry Harrison ; Terminal fiction ; The terminal beach / by J.G. Ballard ; Again and again ; Dolphin's way / by Gordon R. Dickson ; The future as metaphor ; Slow Tuesday night / by R.A. Lafferty ; Through a glass darkly ; Day million / by Frederik Pohl ; Will reality please raise its hand? ; We can remember it for you wholesale / by Philip K. Dick ; The new thing ; I have no mouth, and I must scream / by Harlan Ellison ; Aye, and Delany ; Aye, and Gomorrah / by Samuel R. Delany ; The new scientific revolution ; The jigsaw man / by Larry Niven ; Hard science and soft people ; Kyrie / by Poul Anderson ; Out of the knight ; Masks / by Damon Knight ; Surviving the future ; From Stand on Zanzibar / by John Brunner ; The big protest ; The big flash / by Norman Spinrad ; The origin and development of science fiction writers ; Sundance / by Robert Silverberg ; Science fiction as simile ; From The left hand of darkness / by Ursula K. Le Guin ; Issues and controversies ; When it changed / by Joanna Russ ; The science fiction art story ; The engine at heartspring's center / by Roger Zelazny ; The uncertain future ; Tricentennial / by Joe Haldeman
- 4. from here to forever