The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection¨
anthology
Edited by Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer
Published: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard - trade paperback - 2016
ISBN: 1101910097 / 9781101910092
Vintage Crime / Black Lizard - e-book - 2016
eISBN: 1101910100 / 9781101910108
ASIN: B01CWZH7C4
contents
Introduction ( The Big Book of Science Fiction ) - essay by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
The Star - short story by H. G. Wells ( 1897 )
Sultana's Dream - short story by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain ( 1905 )
The Triumph of Mechanics - short story by Karl Hans Strobl ( aka Der Triumph der Mechanik 1907 ) ( translated by Gio Clairval )
The New Overworld - short story by Paul Scheerbart ( aka Die neue Oberwelt. Eine Venus-Novellette 1912 ) ( translated by Daniel Ableev and Sarah Kassem )
Elements of Pataphysics • short story by Alfred Jarry ( aka Éléments de pataphysique 1911 ) ( translated by Gio Clairval )
Mechanopolis - short story by Miguel de Unamuno ( aka Mecanópolis 1913 ) ( translated by Marian Womack )
The Doom of Principal City • short story by Yefim Zozulya ( Ефим Зозуля ) ( aka Гибель Главного города 1918 ) ( translated by Vlad Zhenevsky )
The Comet - short story by W. E. B. Du Bois ( 1920 )
The Fate of the Poseidonia - short story by Clare Winger Harris ( 1927 )
The Star Stealers ( Interstellar Patrol 2 ) - novelette by Edmond Hamilton ( variant of The Star-Stealers 1929 ) ( 1965 )
The Conquest of Gola - short story by Leslie F. Stone ( 1931 )
A Martian Odyssey ( Tweel 1 ) - novelette by Stanley G. Weinbaum ( 1934 )
The Last Poet and the Robots - short story by A. Merritt ( 1934 )
The Microscopic Giants - short story by Paul Ernst ( 1936 )
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - short story by Jorge Luis Borges ( aka Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius 1940 ) ( translated by Andrew Hurley 1998 )
Desertion - short story by Clifford D. Simak ( from City 1944 )
September 2005: The Martian - short story by Ray Bradbury ( variant of The Martian 1949 ) ( from The Martian Chronicles 1951 )
Baby HP - short story by Juan José Arreola ( aka Baby H. P. 1952 ) ( translated by Larry Nolen )
Surface Tension ( Pantropy ) - novelette by James Blish ( 1952 )
Beyond Lies the Wub - short story by Philip K. Dick ( 1952 )
The Snowball Effect - short story by Katherine MacLean ( 1952 )
Prott - short story by Margaret St. Clair ( 1953 )
The Liberation of Earth - short story by William Tenn ( 1953 )
Let Me Live in a House - novelette by Chad Oliver ( 1954 )
The Star - short story by Arthur C. Clarke ( 1955 )
Grandpa ( The Hub )- novelette by James H. Schmitz ( 1955 )
The Game of Rat and Dragon ( The Instrumentality of Mankind ) -short story by Cordwainer Smith ( 1955 )
Stranger Station - novelette by Damon Knight ( 1956 )
Sector General ( Sector General ) - novelette by James White ( 1957 )
The Visitors - short story by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky ( Аркадий Стругацкий and Борис Стругацкий ) ( aka Извне 1958) ( translated by James Womack )
Pelt - short story by Carol Emshwiller ( 1958 )
The Monster - short story by Gérard Klein ( aka Le monstre 1958 ) ( translated by Damon Knight 1965 )
The Man Who Lost the Sea - short story by Theodore Sturgeon ( 1959 )
The Waves - short story by Silvina Ocampo ( aka Las ondas 1959 ) ( translated by Marian Womack )
Plenitude - short story by Will Mohler ( 1959 )
The Voices of Time - novelette by J. G. Ballard ( 1960 )
The Astronaut short story by Valentina Zhuravlyova ( Валентина Журавлёва ) ( aka Астронавт 1960) ( translated by James Womack )
The Squid Chooses Its Own Ink - short story by Adolfo Bioy Casares ( aka El calamar opta por su tinta 1962 ) ( translated by Marian Womack )
2 B R 0 2 B - short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ( 1962 )
A Modest Genius - short story by Vadim Shefner ( Вадим Шефнер ) ( aka Скромный гений 1963 ) ( translated by Matthew J. O'Connell 1973 )
Day of Wrath - novelette by Sever Gansovsky ( Север Гансовский ) ( aka День гнева 1965 ) ( translated by James Womack )
The Hands - short story by John Baxter ( 1965 )
Darkness - short story by André Carneiro ( aka A Escuridão 1963 ) ( translated by Leo L. Barrow 1972 )
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman - short story by Harlan Ellison ( 1965 )
Nine Hundred Grandmothers ( Habitable Worlds ) - short story by R. A. Lafferty ( 1966 )
Day Million - short story by Frederik Pohl ( 1966 )
Student Body - novelette by F. L. Wallace ( 1953 )
Aye, and Gomorrah - short story by Samuel R. Delany ( variant of Aye, and Gomorrah... 1967 ) ( 1970 )
The Hall of Machines - short story by Langdon Jones ( 1968 )
Soft Clocks - short story byYoshio Aramaki ( 荒巻義雄 ) ( aka 柔らかい時計 1968 ) ( translated by Kazuko Behrens with Lewis Shiner 1989 )
No Cracks or Sagging ( Moderan ) - short story by David R. Bunch ( variant of No Cracks or Saggings 1970 )
New Kings Are Not for Laughing ( Moderan ) - short story by David R. Bunch ( 1971 )
The Flesh Man from Far Wide ( Moderan ) - short story by David R. Bunch ( variant of The Flesh-Man from Far Wide 1959 )
Let Us Save the Universe ( An Open Letter from Ijon Tichy ) ( Ijon Tichy ) - short story by Stanisław Lem ( aka Ratujmy kosmos: ( List otwarty Ijona Tichego ) 1964 ) ( translated by Joel Stern and Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek 1981 )
Vaster Than Empires and More Slow ( Hainish ) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin ( 1971 )
Good News from the Vatican -short story by Robert Silverberg ( 1971 )
When It Changed ( Whileaway ) - short story by Joanna Russ ( 1972 )
And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side - short story by James Tiptree, Jr. ( 1972 )
Where Two Paths Cross - short story by Dmitri Bilenkin ( Дмитрий Биленкин ) ( aka Peresechenie Puti ( Пересечение пути ) 1973) ( translated by James Womack )
Standing Woman - short story by Yasutaka Tsutsui ( 筒井康隆 ) ( aka 佇むひと 1974 ) ( translated by David ( Dana ) Lewis 1981 )
The IWM 1000 - short story by Alicia Yánez Cossío ( aka La IWM mil 1975 ) ( translated by Susana Castillo and Elsie Adams )
The House of Compassionate Sharers ( Glaktik Komm ) - novelette by Michael Bishop ( 1977 )
Sporting with the Chid - short story by Barrington J. Bayley ( 1979 )
Sandkings ( Thousand Worlds ) - novelette by George R. R. Martin ( 1979 )
Wives - short story by Lisa Tuttle ( 1979 )
The Snake Who Had Read Chomsky - novelette by Josephine Saxton ( 1981 )
Reiko's Universe Box - short story by Kajio Shinji ( 梶尾真治 ) ( aka 玲子の箱宇宙 2007 ) ( translated by Toyoda Takashi and Gene van Troyer )
Swarm ( Shaper /Mechanist ) - novelette by Bruce Sterling ( 1982 )
Mondocane - short story by Jacques Barbéri ( aka Mondocane 1983 ) ( translated by Brian Evenson )
Blood Music - novelette by Greg Bear ( 1983 )
Bloodchild - novelette by Octavia E. Butler ( 1984 )
Variation on a Man ( Deadpan Allie ) - short story by Pat Cadigan ( 1984 )
Passing as a Flower in the City of the Dead - short story by Sharon N. Farber ( 1984 )
New Rose Hotel - short story by William Gibson ( 1984 )
Pots - novelette by C. J. Cherryh ( 1985 )
Snow - short story by John Crowley ( 1985 )
The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things - short story by Karen Joy Fowler ( 1985 )
The Unmistakable Smell of Wood Violets - short story by Angélica Gorodischer ( aka El inconfundible aroma de las violetas silvestres 1991 ) ( translated by Marian Womack )
The Owl of Bear Island - short story by Jon Bing ( aka Ugle på Bjørnøya 1986 ) ( translated by author? )
Readers of the Lost Art - short story by Élisabeth Vonarburg ( aka La carte du Tendre 1986 ) ( translated by Howard Scott 1996 )
A Gift from the Culture ( [Culture ) - short story by Iain M. Banks ( 1987 )
Paranamanco - short story by Jean-Claude Dunyach ( aka Paranamanco 1988 ) ( translated by Sheryl Curtis )
Crying in the Rain - short story by Tanith Lee ( 1987 )
The Frozen Cardinal - short story by Michael Moorcock ( 1987 )
Rachel in Love - novelette by Pat Murphy ( 1987 )
Sharing Air - short story by Manjula Padmanabhan ( 1984 )
Schwarzschild Radius - short story by Connie Willis ( 1987 )
All the Hues of Hell - short story by Gene Wolfe ( 1987 )
Vacuum States - short story by Geoffrey A. Landis ( 1988 )
Two Small Birds - short story by Han Song ( aka 两只小鸟 1998 ) ( translated by John Chu )
Burning Sky- short story by Rachel Pollack ( 1989 )
Before I Wake - short story by Kim Stanley Robinson ( 1989 )
Death Is Static Death Is Movement - short story by Misha Nogha ( 1990 )
The Brains of Rats - short story by Michael Blumlein ( 1986 )
Gorgonoids ( from Mathematical creatures, or shared dreams ) - excerpt by Leena Krohn ( aka Matemaattisia olioita tai jaettuja unia 1992 ) ( translated by Hildi Hawkins 2015 )
Vacancy for the Post of Jesus Christ - short story by Kojo Laing ( 1992 )
The Universe of Things - short story by Gwyneth Jones ( 1993 )
The Remoras ( The Great Ship Universe ) - novelette by Robert Reed ( 1994 )
The Ghost Standard - short story by William Tenn ( 1994 )
Remnants of the Virago Crypto-System - short story by Geoffrey Maloney ( 1995 )
How Alex Became a Machine - novelette by Stepan Chapman ( 1997 )
The Poetry Cloud - short story by Liu Cixin ( aka 诗云 2003 ) ( translated by Chi-yin Ip and Cheuk Wong 2012 )
Story of Your Life - novella by Ted Chiang ( 1998 )
Craphound - short story by Cory Doctorow ( 1998 )
The Slynx ( chapter from ) - excerpt by Tatyana Tolstaya ( Татьяна Толстая ) ( translated by Jamey Gambrell )
Baby Doll - novelette by Johanna Sinisalo ( aka Baby Doll 2002 ) ( translated by David Hackston )
About the Editors ( The Big Book of Science Fiction ) - essay by uncredited
About the Translators ( The Big Book of Science Fiction ) - essay by uncredited
anthology
Edited by Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer
Published: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard - trade paperback - 2016
ISBN: 1101910097 / 9781101910092
Vintage Crime / Black Lizard - e-book - 2016
eISBN: 1101910100 / 9781101910108
ASIN: B01CWZH7C4
contents
Introduction ( The Big Book of Science Fiction ) - essay by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
The Star - short story by H. G. Wells ( 1897 )
Sultana's Dream - short story by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain ( 1905 )
The Triumph of Mechanics - short story by Karl Hans Strobl ( aka Der Triumph der Mechanik 1907 ) ( translated by Gio Clairval )
The New Overworld - short story by Paul Scheerbart ( aka Die neue Oberwelt. Eine Venus-Novellette 1912 ) ( translated by Daniel Ableev and Sarah Kassem )
Elements of Pataphysics • short story by Alfred Jarry ( aka Éléments de pataphysique 1911 ) ( translated by Gio Clairval )
Mechanopolis - short story by Miguel de Unamuno ( aka Mecanópolis 1913 ) ( translated by Marian Womack )
The Doom of Principal City • short story by Yefim Zozulya ( Ефим Зозуля ) ( aka Гибель Главного города 1918 ) ( translated by Vlad Zhenevsky )
The Comet - short story by W. E. B. Du Bois ( 1920 )
The Fate of the Poseidonia - short story by Clare Winger Harris ( 1927 )
The Star Stealers ( Interstellar Patrol 2 ) - novelette by Edmond Hamilton ( variant of The Star-Stealers 1929 ) ( 1965 )
The Conquest of Gola - short story by Leslie F. Stone ( 1931 )
A Martian Odyssey ( Tweel 1 ) - novelette by Stanley G. Weinbaum ( 1934 )
The Last Poet and the Robots - short story by A. Merritt ( 1934 )
The Microscopic Giants - short story by Paul Ernst ( 1936 )
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - short story by Jorge Luis Borges ( aka Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius 1940 ) ( translated by Andrew Hurley 1998 )
Desertion - short story by Clifford D. Simak ( from City 1944 )
September 2005: The Martian - short story by Ray Bradbury ( variant of The Martian 1949 ) ( from The Martian Chronicles 1951 )
Baby HP - short story by Juan José Arreola ( aka Baby H. P. 1952 ) ( translated by Larry Nolen )
Surface Tension ( Pantropy ) - novelette by James Blish ( 1952 )
Beyond Lies the Wub - short story by Philip K. Dick ( 1952 )
The Snowball Effect - short story by Katherine MacLean ( 1952 )
Prott - short story by Margaret St. Clair ( 1953 )
The Liberation of Earth - short story by William Tenn ( 1953 )
Let Me Live in a House - novelette by Chad Oliver ( 1954 )
The Star - short story by Arthur C. Clarke ( 1955 )
Grandpa ( The Hub )- novelette by James H. Schmitz ( 1955 )
The Game of Rat and Dragon ( The Instrumentality of Mankind ) -short story by Cordwainer Smith ( 1955 )
Stranger Station - novelette by Damon Knight ( 1956 )
Sector General ( Sector General ) - novelette by James White ( 1957 )
The Visitors - short story by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky ( Аркадий Стругацкий and Борис Стругацкий ) ( aka Извне 1958) ( translated by James Womack )
Pelt - short story by Carol Emshwiller ( 1958 )
The Monster - short story by Gérard Klein ( aka Le monstre 1958 ) ( translated by Damon Knight 1965 )
The Man Who Lost the Sea - short story by Theodore Sturgeon ( 1959 )
The Waves - short story by Silvina Ocampo ( aka Las ondas 1959 ) ( translated by Marian Womack )
Plenitude - short story by Will Mohler ( 1959 )
The Voices of Time - novelette by J. G. Ballard ( 1960 )
The Astronaut short story by Valentina Zhuravlyova ( Валентина Журавлёва ) ( aka Астронавт 1960) ( translated by James Womack )
The Squid Chooses Its Own Ink - short story by Adolfo Bioy Casares ( aka El calamar opta por su tinta 1962 ) ( translated by Marian Womack )
2 B R 0 2 B - short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ( 1962 )
A Modest Genius - short story by Vadim Shefner ( Вадим Шефнер ) ( aka Скромный гений 1963 ) ( translated by Matthew J. O'Connell 1973 )
Day of Wrath - novelette by Sever Gansovsky ( Север Гансовский ) ( aka День гнева 1965 ) ( translated by James Womack )
The Hands - short story by John Baxter ( 1965 )
Darkness - short story by André Carneiro ( aka A Escuridão 1963 ) ( translated by Leo L. Barrow 1972 )
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman - short story by Harlan Ellison ( 1965 )
Nine Hundred Grandmothers ( Habitable Worlds ) - short story by R. A. Lafferty ( 1966 )
Day Million - short story by Frederik Pohl ( 1966 )
Student Body - novelette by F. L. Wallace ( 1953 )
Aye, and Gomorrah - short story by Samuel R. Delany ( variant of Aye, and Gomorrah... 1967 ) ( 1970 )
The Hall of Machines - short story by Langdon Jones ( 1968 )
Soft Clocks - short story byYoshio Aramaki ( 荒巻義雄 ) ( aka 柔らかい時計 1968 ) ( translated by Kazuko Behrens with Lewis Shiner 1989 )
No Cracks or Sagging ( Moderan ) - short story by David R. Bunch ( variant of No Cracks or Saggings 1970 )
New Kings Are Not for Laughing ( Moderan ) - short story by David R. Bunch ( 1971 )
The Flesh Man from Far Wide ( Moderan ) - short story by David R. Bunch ( variant of The Flesh-Man from Far Wide 1959 )
Let Us Save the Universe ( An Open Letter from Ijon Tichy ) ( Ijon Tichy ) - short story by Stanisław Lem ( aka Ratujmy kosmos: ( List otwarty Ijona Tichego ) 1964 ) ( translated by Joel Stern and Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek 1981 )
Vaster Than Empires and More Slow ( Hainish ) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin ( 1971 )
Good News from the Vatican -short story by Robert Silverberg ( 1971 )
When It Changed ( Whileaway ) - short story by Joanna Russ ( 1972 )
And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side - short story by James Tiptree, Jr. ( 1972 )
Where Two Paths Cross - short story by Dmitri Bilenkin ( Дмитрий Биленкин ) ( aka Peresechenie Puti ( Пересечение пути ) 1973) ( translated by James Womack )
Standing Woman - short story by Yasutaka Tsutsui ( 筒井康隆 ) ( aka 佇むひと 1974 ) ( translated by David ( Dana ) Lewis 1981 )
The IWM 1000 - short story by Alicia Yánez Cossío ( aka La IWM mil 1975 ) ( translated by Susana Castillo and Elsie Adams )
The House of Compassionate Sharers ( Glaktik Komm ) - novelette by Michael Bishop ( 1977 )
Sporting with the Chid - short story by Barrington J. Bayley ( 1979 )
Sandkings ( Thousand Worlds ) - novelette by George R. R. Martin ( 1979 )
Wives - short story by Lisa Tuttle ( 1979 )
The Snake Who Had Read Chomsky - novelette by Josephine Saxton ( 1981 )
Reiko's Universe Box - short story by Kajio Shinji ( 梶尾真治 ) ( aka 玲子の箱宇宙 2007 ) ( translated by Toyoda Takashi and Gene van Troyer )
Swarm ( Shaper /Mechanist ) - novelette by Bruce Sterling ( 1982 )
Mondocane - short story by Jacques Barbéri ( aka Mondocane 1983 ) ( translated by Brian Evenson )
Blood Music - novelette by Greg Bear ( 1983 )
Bloodchild - novelette by Octavia E. Butler ( 1984 )
Variation on a Man ( Deadpan Allie ) - short story by Pat Cadigan ( 1984 )
Passing as a Flower in the City of the Dead - short story by Sharon N. Farber ( 1984 )
New Rose Hotel - short story by William Gibson ( 1984 )
Pots - novelette by C. J. Cherryh ( 1985 )
Snow - short story by John Crowley ( 1985 )
The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things - short story by Karen Joy Fowler ( 1985 )
The Unmistakable Smell of Wood Violets - short story by Angélica Gorodischer ( aka El inconfundible aroma de las violetas silvestres 1991 ) ( translated by Marian Womack )
The Owl of Bear Island - short story by Jon Bing ( aka Ugle på Bjørnøya 1986 ) ( translated by author? )
Readers of the Lost Art - short story by Élisabeth Vonarburg ( aka La carte du Tendre 1986 ) ( translated by Howard Scott 1996 )
A Gift from the Culture ( [Culture ) - short story by Iain M. Banks ( 1987 )
Paranamanco - short story by Jean-Claude Dunyach ( aka Paranamanco 1988 ) ( translated by Sheryl Curtis )
Crying in the Rain - short story by Tanith Lee ( 1987 )
The Frozen Cardinal - short story by Michael Moorcock ( 1987 )
Rachel in Love - novelette by Pat Murphy ( 1987 )
Sharing Air - short story by Manjula Padmanabhan ( 1984 )
Schwarzschild Radius - short story by Connie Willis ( 1987 )
All the Hues of Hell - short story by Gene Wolfe ( 1987 )
Vacuum States - short story by Geoffrey A. Landis ( 1988 )
Two Small Birds - short story by Han Song ( aka 两只小鸟 1998 ) ( translated by John Chu )
Burning Sky- short story by Rachel Pollack ( 1989 )
Before I Wake - short story by Kim Stanley Robinson ( 1989 )
Death Is Static Death Is Movement - short story by Misha Nogha ( 1990 )
The Brains of Rats - short story by Michael Blumlein ( 1986 )
Gorgonoids ( from Mathematical creatures, or shared dreams ) - excerpt by Leena Krohn ( aka Matemaattisia olioita tai jaettuja unia 1992 ) ( translated by Hildi Hawkins 2015 )
Vacancy for the Post of Jesus Christ - short story by Kojo Laing ( 1992 )
The Universe of Things - short story by Gwyneth Jones ( 1993 )
The Remoras ( The Great Ship Universe ) - novelette by Robert Reed ( 1994 )
The Ghost Standard - short story by William Tenn ( 1994 )
Remnants of the Virago Crypto-System - short story by Geoffrey Maloney ( 1995 )
How Alex Became a Machine - novelette by Stepan Chapman ( 1997 )
The Poetry Cloud - short story by Liu Cixin ( aka 诗云 2003 ) ( translated by Chi-yin Ip and Cheuk Wong 2012 )
Story of Your Life - novella by Ted Chiang ( 1998 )
Craphound - short story by Cory Doctorow ( 1998 )
The Slynx ( chapter from ) - excerpt by Tatyana Tolstaya ( Татьяна Толстая ) ( translated by Jamey Gambrell )
Baby Doll - novelette by Johanna Sinisalo ( aka Baby Doll 2002 ) ( translated by David Hackston )
About the Editors ( The Big Book of Science Fiction ) - essay by uncredited
About the Translators ( The Big Book of Science Fiction ) - essay by uncredited