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Print Price: $25.95

Format:
Paperback
624 pp.
129 mm x 196 mm

ISBN-13:
9780192803818

Publication date:
January 2003

Imprint: OUP UK


The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories

Edited by Tom Shippey

'As good an introduction to SF as you can buy.' Iain Banks

The definitive collection of the twentieth-century's most characteristic genre-from H.G. Wells's prophetic vision of technological warfare to contemporary cyberspace, and up-to-the-minute myths of genetic engineering.

Readership : Those who enjoy Science Fiction, and those who are new to science fiction writing.

Reviews

  • Review from previous edition: "both authoritative and audacious, up-to-date and historically wise, the best yet introduction to a bewildering field"

    --Greg Benford
  • "travels through ninety years' development from mechanical to fantastical ... first rate"

    --Daily Telegraph
  • "ideal ... even contains much to convert the sceptics, with its survey of highlights from Wells to Kipling, via Arthur C. Clarke and J.G. Ballard, to David Brin"

    --Independent on Sunday
  • "[Tom Shippey's] new anthology not only is useful and important, it illuminates the field with the editor's insights and selections."

    --James Gunn

Introduction
H. G. Wells: The Land Ironclads
Frank L. Pollack: Finis
Rudyard Kipling: As Easy as ABC
Jack Williamson: The Metal Man
Stanley G. Weinbaum: A Martian Odyssey
John W. Campbell Jr.: Night
Clifford D. Simak: Desertion
'Lewis Padgett': The Piper's Son
A. E. van Vogt: The Monster
James H. Schmitz: The Second Night of Summer
Arthur C. Clarke: Second Dawn
Walter M. Miller Jr.: Crucifixus Etiam
Frederik Pohl: The Tunnel Under the World
Brian Aldiss: Who Can Replace a Man?
J. G. Ballard: Billennium
'Cordwainer Smith': The Ballard of Lost C'mell
Ursula K. Le Guin: Semley's Necklace
James Blish: How Beautiful with Banners
Harry Harrison: A Criminal Act
Thomas M. Disch: Problems of Creativeness
Gene Wolfe: How the Whip Came Back
Larry Niven: Cloak of Anarchy
Norman Spinrad: A Thing of Beauty
'Raccoona Sheldon': The Screwfly Solution
George R. R. Martin: The Way of Cross and Dragon
Bruce Sterling: Swarm
William Gibson: Burning Chrome
Hilbert Schenck: Silicon Muse
Paul J. McAuley: Karl and the Ogre
David Brin: Piecework
Select Bibliography
Sources

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Tom Shippey inherited J. R. R. Tolkien's Chair of Medieval English Language at the University of Leeds, where he taught the syllabus Tolkien had set up. He now holds the Walter J. Ong Chair of Humanities at St Louis University, Missouri, specializing in Medieval Literature, Old English Arthurian and Romance Literature, Fantasy, and Science Fiction. He has written and edited numerous books, including J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (2001), The Road to Middle-earth (second edition, 1992), The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories (reissue, 2003), and Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative (co-edited with George Slusser, 1993).

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Special Features

  • The definitive collection of Science Fiction writing.
  • Features such greats as H.G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, J. G Ballard.
  • Selected by the eminent science fiction scholar Tom Shippey.
  • 'as good an introduction to SF as you can buy' Iain Banks.