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"Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism." So says David G. Hartwell in his introduction to The Science Fiction Century, an anthology spanning a hundred years of science fiction, from its birth in the 1890s to the future it predicted.

David G. Hartwell is a World Fantasy Award-winning editor and anthologist who has twice before redefined a genre--first the horror field with The Dark Descent, then the subgenre of hard science fiction with The Ascent of Wonder, coedited with Kathryn Cramer. Now, Hartwell has compiled the mother of all definitive anthologies, guaranteed to change not only the way the science fiction field views itself but also the way the rest of literature views the field.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1997) - essay by David G. Hartwell
• Beam Us Home - (1969) - shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Ministering Angels - (1955) - shortstory by C. S. Lewis
• The Music Master of Babylon - (1954) - novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• A Story of the Days to Come - (1899) - novella by H. G. Wells
• Hot Planet - (1963) - shortstory by Hal Clement
• A Work of Art - (1956) - novelette by James Blish
• The Machine Stops - (1909) - novelette by E. M. Forster
• Brightness Falls from the Air - (1951) - shortstory by Margaret St. Clair
• 2066: Election Day - (1956) - shortstory by Michael Shaara
• The Rose - (1953) - novella by Charles L. Harness
• The Hounds of Tindalos - (1929) - shortstory by Frank Belknap Long
• The Angel of Violence - shortstory by Adam Wisniewski-Snerg
• Nobody Bothers Gus - (1955) - shortstory by Algis Budrys
• The Time Machine - shortstory by Dino Buzzati
• Mother - (1953) - novelette by Philip José Farmer
• As Easy as A.B.C. - (1912) - novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• Ginungagap - (1980) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
• Minister Without Portfolio - (1952) - shortstory by Mildred Clingerman
• Time in Advance - (1956) - novelette by William Tenn
• Good Night, Sophie - (1973) - novelette by Lino Aldani
• Veritas - (1987) - novelette by James Morrow
• Enchanted Village - (1950) - shortstory by A. E. van Vogt
• The King and the Dollmaker - (1970) - novella by Wolfgang Jeschke
• Fire Watch - (1982) - novelette by Connie Willis
• Goat Song - (1972) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• The Scarlet Plague - (1912) - novella by Jack London
• Drunkboat - (1963) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• Another World - (1962) - novelette by J. H. Rosny aîné
• If the Stars Are Gods - (1974) - novelette by Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford
• I Still Call Australia Home - (1990) - shortstory by George Turner
• Liquid Sunshine - (1982) - novelette by Alexander Kuprin
• Great Work of Time - (1989) - novella by John Crowley
• Sundance - (1969) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Greenslaves - (1965) - novelette by Frank Herbert
• Rumfuddle - (1973) - novella by Jack Vance
• The Dimple in Draco - (1967) - shortstory by R. S. Richardson
• Consider Her Ways - (1956) - novella by John Wyndham
• Something Ending - (1982) - shortstory by Eddy C. Bertin
• He Who Shapes - (1965) - novella by Roger Zelazny
• Swarm - (1982) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• Beggars in Spain - (1991) - novella by Nancy Kress
• Johnny Mnemonic - (1981) - shortstory by William Gibson
• "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman - (1965) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Blood's a Rover - (1952) - novella by Chad Oliver
• Sail the Tide of Mourning - (1975) - shortstory by Richard A. Lupoff

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