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The Road to Science Fiction: From Here to Forever

Volume 4

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The Road to Science Fiction: From Here to Forever

Volume 4

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Now in Paperback!
The Road to Science Fiction is a six-volume anthology that covers the development of this genre from its earliest prototypes to the current day. Created originally to provide anthologies for use in classrooms in the late 1970s, these volumes became mass-market sellers.

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 Edgar Allan Poe's balloon trip in the year 2848 these and other key works are gathered together for the first time 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.

Volume 4 From Here to Forever covers the period from 1950-1992, illustrating how science fiction can be as concerned with language and character as much as traditional fiction and anything in the mainstream. Includes stories by Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Matheson, C. M. Kornbluth, Jack Vance, and Pamela Zoline.

Table of Contents

Part 1 INTRODUCTION
Part 2 Born of Skill and Money
Chapter 3 Born of Man and Woman
Part 4 Heart of Darkness
Chapter 5 The Luckiest Man in Denv
Part 6 A Clash of Symbols
Chapter 7 Common Time
Part 8 Word Magic
Chapter 9 My Boy Friend's Name is Jello
Part 10 A Canticle for the Fifties
Chapter 11 The First Canticle
Part 12 The Lodestone Genre
Chapter 13 Nobody Bothers Gus
Part 14 Inferiority: The Complex Problem
Chapter 15 Flowers for Algernon
Part 16 A Question of Identity
Chapter 17 The Moon Moth
Part 18 The View From the Outside
Chapter 19 The Library of Babel
Part 20 Inner Concerns in Outer Space
Chapter 21 From Dune
Part 22 The Vigor of Traditional SF
Chapter 23 Light of Other Days
Part 24 Ambiguities and Inscrutabilities
Chapter 25 The First Sally (A), or Trurl's Electronic Bard
Part 26 Entropy and the World War
Chapter 27 The Heart and Death of the Universe
Part 28 Speculations on Speculative Fiction
Chapter 29 The Planners
Part 30 The Alienness of the Alien
Chapter 31 The Dance of the Changer and the Three
Part 32 The Virtues of Indirection
Chapter 33 The Last Flight of Dr. Ain
Part 34 Radical Sensibility
Chapter 35 Where No Sun Shines
Part 36 Escape Reading
Chapter 37 The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories
Part 38 Understanding Reader Reaction
Chapter 39 Angouleme
Part 40 The Postwar Generation
Chapter 41 Gather Blue Roses
Part 42 The Star Trek Syndrome
Chapter 43 With a Finger in My I
Part 44 Of Men, and Women, and Society
Chapter 45 Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand
Part 46 Of Novas and Other Stars
Chapter 47 Air Raid
Part 48 Science Fiction, Aliens, and Alienation
Chapter 49 Uncoupling
Part 50 Exotic Parables
Chapter 51 Rogue Tomato
Part 52 The Labor Day Group
Chapter 53 This Tower of Ashes
Part 54 Fiction and Science
Chapter 55 Particle Theory
Part 56 The Anthropology of the Future
Chapter 57 View from a Height
Part 58 Form and Content
Chapter 59 The Word Sweep
Part 60 Dialectic of History and Transcendence
Chapter 61 The World Science Fiction Convention of 2080
Part 62 Estranging the Everyday
Chapter 63 Abominable
Part 64 Science and Fiction
Chapter 65 Exposures
Part 66 The Real and the Surreal
Chapter 67 Schrödinger's Kitten

Product details

Published Mar 25 2003
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 560
ISBN 9780810846708
Imprint Scarecrow Press
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

James Gunn

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