The Road to Science Fiction: From Heinlein to Here: Volume 3: James Gunn: Scarecrow Press

The Road to Science Fiction: From Heinlein to Here

Volume 3

The Road to Science Fiction: From Heinlein to Here

Volume 3

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Now in Paperback!
Between an ancient Roman's trip to the moon and the fantastic tales of H.G. Wells lies a journey through time and space and an awesome evolution in scientific thinking. From Gilgamesh's search for immortality to Lucian's odyssey on the moon; from Jonathan Swift's hilarious satire on scientists in Gulliver's Travels to Mary Shelley's horrifying description of a scientist who has gone too far in Frankenstein from Edgar Allan Poe's balloon trip in the year 2848 to Jules Verne's prophesies of the impact of scientific inventions on future civilization; from Edward Bellamy's utopian escape from the industrial Revolution to H.G. Wells's magnificent story of Earth threatened by an inescapable menace-here are the chief ancestors of the modern science fiction story. For the first time, these and other key works are gathered together in one anthology, complete with revealing commentary on the authors, their eras, and the role each played in establishing what we today recognize as science fiction.

The Road to Science Fiction is a six-volume anthology of science fiction that covers the development of science fiction from its earliest prototypes in the Sumerian Gilgamesh and the Greek epics to approximately 1990.

Created originally to provide anthologies for use in classes, these volumes have become mass-market sellers as well, since they are not only a source of outstanding stories but also explain what constitutes science fiction, how it developed and the contribution the authors and the stories have made to the evolution of science fiction.

Volume 3, From Heinlein to Here, covers the period from 1940 to 1975, beginning in the Golden Age of Science Fiction and ending at a time when SF book publication was just beginning to explode and SF films (2001: A Space Odyssey; Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Wars, E.T.) would soon dominate box offices.

Cloth edition previously published in 1979.

Chapter 1 Beyond These Horizons
Chapter 2 "All You Zombies"
Chapter 3 The Clear, Cool Voice of Asimov
Chapter 4 Reason
Chapter 5 The Simak Reservation
Chapter 6 Desertion
Chapter 7 Mimsy Were the Kuttners
Chapter 8 Mimsy Were the Borogoves
Chapter 9 The Bradbury Chronicles
Chapter 10 The Million-Year Picnic
Chapter 11 More Than SF
Chapter 12 Thunder and Roses
Chapter 13 Ecce Femina
Chapter 14 That Only a Mother
Chapter 15 A Matter of Time
Chapter 16 Brooklyn Project
Chapter 17 The Social Side
Chapter 18 Coming Attraction
Chapter 19 The Expanding Universe
Chapter 20 The Sentinel
Chapter 21 Farmerworld
Chapter 22 Sail On! Sail On!
Chapter 23 The Science in Science Fiction
Chapter 24 Critical Factor
Chapter 25 Why Not Literature?
Chapter 26 Fondly Fahrenheit
Chapter 27 A Touch of Stone
Chapter 28 The Cold Equations
Chapter 29 The Ballads of Lost C. Smith
Chapter 30 The Game of Rat and Dragon
Chapter 31 Scalpel of Wit
Chapter 32 Pilgrimage to Earth
Chapter 33 The British Are Coming!
Chapter 34 Who Can Replace a Man?
Chapter 35 The Sirens of Mainstream
Chapter 36 Harrison Bergeron
Chapter 37 That Old-Time Religion
Chapter 38 The Streets of Ashkelon
Chapter 39 Terminal Fiction
Chapter 40 The Terminal Beach
Chapter 41 Again and Again
Chapter 42 Dolphin's Way
Chapter 43 The Future as Metaphor
Chapter 44 Slow Tuesday Night
Chapter 45 Through a Glass Darkly
Chapter 46 Day Million
Chapter 47 Will Reality Please Raise Its Hand?
Chapter 48 We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
Chapter 49 The New Thing
Chapter 50 I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Chapter 51 Aye, and Delany
Chapter 52 Aye, and Gomorrah
Chapter 53 The New Scientific Revolution
Chapter 54 The Jigsaw Man
Chapter 55 Hard Science and Soft People
Chapter 56 Kyrie
Chapter 57 Out of the Knight
Chapter 58 Masks
Chapter 59 Surviving the Future
Chapter 60 From Stand on Zanzibar
Chapter 61 The Big Protest
Chapter 62 The Big Flash
Chapter 63 The Origin and Development of Science Fiction Writers
Chapter 64 Sundance
Chapter 65 Science Fiction as Simile
Chapter 66 From The Left Hand of Darkness
Chapter 67 Issues and Controversies
Chapter 68 When It Changed
Chapter 69 The Science Fiction Art Story
Chapter 70 The Engine at Heartspring's Center
Chapter 71 The Uncertain Future
Chapter 72 Tricentennial

Product details

Published	Mar 11 2002
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	576
ISBN	9780810842458
Imprint	Scarecrow Press
Dimensions	231 x 154 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

...the stories are among the field's best known, by the most highly regarded authors of the period....There's little doubt why these stories are considered among the finest in science fiction history....Gunn's commentary is both informative and perceptive....he explains the literary development of science fiction, and the stories support his analysis....It belongs on the bookshelf of everyone who loves science fiction.

Science Fiction Weekly
An excellent introduction to the history of the genre.

The New York Times
The best series, historically arranged, of SF anthologies ever assembled...All six volumes belong in the library of every university, school, and teacher and reader of science fiction. Gunn has gathered stories of importance to the development of SF and stories that represent the best writing of the genre.

Anatomy of Wonder, 5th Edition
...provides one of the most comprehensive views of the field and should be required reading for all students of sf. It has withstood the test of time, with classic stories....Gunn's headnotes and introductions remain provocative, even years later. The Road to Science Fiction can be read as an historical document, one that says much about Gunn, his mind, and his take on sf as it does about the state of sf from its roots to its full maturity as a genre.

Science Fiction Studies