Matheson, Richard 432

  McCaffrey, Anne 608

  McHugh, Maureen F. 963

  McIntyre, Vonda N. 621

  “Melancholy Elephants” 645

  “Mellonta Tauta” 69

  Merril, Judith 433

  “Metal Man, The” 319

  “Microbe” 850

  “Microcosmic God” 299

  Miller Jr., Walter M. 435

  Moon, Elizabeth 786

  Moore, C. L. 283

  Moore, Ward 441

  Morrow, James 790

  “Mountains of Mourning, The” 726

  “Muffin Migration, The” 762

  Murphy, Pat 809

  “My Mother, Dancing” 954

  “Neutron Star” 629

  “Next Logical Step, The” 521

  “Nightfall” 228

  “Nightmare for Future Reference” 250

  Niven, Larry 629

  “No Direction Home” 663

  “Noble Mold” 905

  Norton, Andre 289

  Nowlan, Philip Francis 186

  Off on a Comet! 82

  “Old Faithful” 268

  “Or All the Seas with Oysters” 365

  Pangborn, Edgar 476

  “Passengers” 660

  “Persistence of Vision, The” 670

  Piper, H. Beam 484

  “Pirates of the Gorm” 202

  Poe, Edgar Allan 69

  Pohl, Frederick 293

  Pratchett, Terry 818

  “Pretty Boy Crossover” 742

  Princess of Mars, A 6

  “Prize of Peril, The” 500

  “Quest for St. Aquin, The” 340

  “Rachel in Love” 809

  Raine, Craig 819

  “Ranks of Bronze” 758

  “Rat Race” 407

  “Red Brain, The” 226

  Reed, Kit 633

  Resnick, Mike 819

  “Riverworld” 387

  Roberts, Keith 637

  Robinson, Kim Stanley 824

  Robinson, Spider 645

  “Robot Poems” 67

  “Roll of the Dice, A” 892

  “Rose for Ecclesiastes, A” 696

  R.U.R. 45

  Russ, Joanna 648

  Russell, Eric Frank 488

  “Sail 25” 507

  “Sandman, the Tinman and the BettyB, The” 752

  “Sargasso of Space, The” 276

  “Saul’s Death” 595

  Sawyer, Robert J. 969

  Schachner, Nat 202

  Schmitz, James H. 491

  Schweitzer, Darrell 974

  “Scientific Romance” 974

  “Senses Three and Six” 720

  “Sentinel, The” 357

  “Seven American Nights” 880

  “Shadow Catcher” 892

  “Shambleau” 283

  Sheckley, Robert 500

  Shelly, Mary Wollstonecraft 76

  Shepard, Lucius 832

  Silverberg, Robert 660

  Simak, Clifford D. 295

  Skylark of Space, The 208

  Slonczewski, Joan 850

  Smith, Clark Ashton 208

  Smith, Cordwainer 504

  Smith, E.E. “Doc” 209

  “Soldier, Ask Not” 375

  Somtow, S. P. 853

  “Souls” 648

  Spinrad, Norman 663

  “Split Light” 773

  “Standing Room Only” 932

  “Star and the Rockets, The” 869

  “Star-Treader, The” 207

  Sterling, Bruce 858

  “Stoker and the Stars, The” 352

  Stross, Charles 975

  Sturgeon, Theodore 299

  “Surface Tension” 333

  Swanwick, Michael 865

  “That Only a Mother” 433

  “They’re Made out of Meat” 914

  “Thing from—Outside, The” 61

  “Think Like a Dinosaur” 776

  “Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream” 935

  “Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne” 598

  “Time Machine, The” 88

  Tiptree Jr., James 666

  Toomer, Jean 82

  Turtledove, Harry 869

  “Ugly Chickens, The” 871

  “Uncle Joshua and the Grooglemen” 930

  “Uncommon Sense” 361

  van Vogt, A. E. 305

  Vance, Jack 507

  Varley, John 670

  Verne, Jules 82

  Vinge, Vernor 681

  Vonnegut Jr., Kurt 694

  Waldrop, Howard 871

  Wandrei, Donald A. 226

  We 106

  Weinbaum, Stanley G. 314

  Wells, H.G. 88

  “Weyr Search” 608

  “What Wolves Know” 633

  “When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth” 920

  “White Trains” 847

  “Who Goes There?” 116

  Williamson, Jack 319

  Willis, Connie 877

  “Wings of Night, The” 263

  “Witches of Karres, The” 491

  Wolfe, Gene 880

  “Yillian Way, The” 602

  Zamyatin, Evgenii 106

  Zelazny, Roger 696

  Stories Listed by Date of First Appearance

  1826 — Last Man, The — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  1849 — Feb — “Mellonta Tauta,” by Edgar Allan Poe

  1872 — Erewhon — Samuel Butler

  1877 — Jul — Off on a Comet! — Jules Verne

  1895 — Jan — “Time Machine, The,” by H.G. Wells

  1912 — “Star-Treader, The,” by Clark Ashton Smith

  1912 — Feb — Princess of Mars, A — Edgar Rice Burroughs

  1921 — We — Evgenii Zamyatin

  — (First English translation in 1924)

  1921 — Jan — R.U.R. — Karel Čapek

  — (First English translation in 1923)

  1923 — “Lunar Baedeker,” by Mina Loy

  1923 — May — “Her Lips Are Copper Wire,” by Jean Toomer

  1923 — Aug — “Afterwards,” by Clark Ashton Smith

  1926 — Apr — “The Thing from—Outside,” by George Allan England

  1927 — Oct — “Red Brain, The,” by Donald A. Wandrei

  1928 — Aug — Skylark of Space, The — E.E. “Doc” Smith

  1928 — Aug — “Armageddon—2419 A.D.,” by Philip Francis Nowlan

  1928 — Dec — “Metal Man, The,” by Jack Williamson

  1929 — May — “Diabolical Drug, The,” by Clare Winger Harris

  1930 — Mar — “Gostak and the Doshes, The,” by Miles J. Breuer

  1930 — May — “Harbour Whistles,” by H. P. Lovecraft

  1931 — Sep — “Sargasso of Space, The,” by Edmond Hamilton

  1932 — May — “Pirates of the Gorm,” by Nat Schachner

  1932 — “Robot Poems,” by D. H. Lawrence

  1933 — Mar — “Man Who Awoke, The,” by Laurence Manning

  1933 — Nov — “Shambleau,” by C. L. Moore

  1934 — Jul — “Martian Odyssey, A,” by Stanley G. Weinbaum

  1934 — Dec — “Old Faithful,” by Raymond Z. Gallun

  1936 — Feb — “At the Mountains of Madness,” by H. P. Lovecraft

  1937 — Jul — “By the Waters of Babylon,” by Stephen Vincent Benét

  1938 — Apr — “Nightmare for Future Reference,” by Stephen Vincent Benét

  1938 — Aug — “Who Goes There?,” by John W. Campbell

  1939 — May — “Almuric,” by Robert E. Howard

  1939 — Jul — “Black Destroyer,” by A. E. van Vogt

  1941 — Apr — “Microcosmic God,” by Theodore Sturgeon

  1941 — Sep — “Nightfall,” by Isaac Asimov

  1942 — Mar — “Wings of Night, The,” by Lester Del Rey

  1944 — Jun — “Arena,” by Fredric Brown

  1945 — May — “First Contact,” by Murray Leinster

  1945 — Sep — “Uncommon Sense,” by Hal Clement

  1947 — Feb — “Green Hills of Earth, The,” by Robert A. Heinlein

  1948 — Jun — “That Only a Mother,” by Judith Merril

  1949 — Dec — “Witches of Karres, The,” by James H. Schmitz

  1950 — Jul — “Little Black Bag, The,” by C. M. Kornbluth

  1950 — Jul — “Born of Man and Woman,” by Richard Matheson

  1951 — Mar — “Duel on Syrtis,” by Poul Anderson

  1951 — Apr — “Sentinel, The,” by Arthur C. Clarke

  1951 — Nov — “Quest for St. Aquin, The,” by Anthony Boucher

  1952 — Apr — “Last Days of Shandakor, The,” by Leigh Brackett

  1952 — Oct — “Surface Tension,” by James Blish

  1952 — Nov — “Martian Way, The,” by Isaac Asimov

  1952 — Nov — “Bring the Jubilee,” by Ward Moore

  1953 — Jan — “Defenders, The,” by Philip K. Dick

  1953 — Feb — “Loo Ree,” by Zenna Henderson

  1953 — Jul — “Bad Day for Sales, A,” by Fritz Leiber

  1953 — Aug — “All Cats Are Grey,” by Andre Norton

  1954 — Mar — “Death of a Spaceman,” by Walter M. Miller Jr.

  1954 — Aug — “Cold Equations, The,” by Tom Godwin

  1954 — Oct — “Fondly Fahrenheit,” by Alfred Bester

  1955 — May — “Allamagoosa,” by Eric Frank Russell

  1955 — Jul — “Rat Race,” by Frank Herbert

  1955 — Oct — “Game of Rat and Dragon, The,” by Cordwainer Smith

  1956 — Feb — “Country of the Kind, The,” by Damon Knight

  1956 — Mar — “Gun for Dinosaur, A,” by L. Sprague de Camp

  1958 — Feb — “Graveyard of Dreams,” by H. Beam Piper

  1958 — May — “Or All the Seas with Oysters,” by Avram Davidson

  1958 — May — “Prize of Peril, The,” by Robert Sheckley

  1959 — Feb — “Stoker and the Stars, The,” by Algis Budrys

  1962 — “Door Through Space, The,” by Marion Zimmer Bradley

  1962 — Jan — “Yillian Way, The,” by Keith Laumer

  1962 — Jan — “2 B R 0 2 B,” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

  1962 — Feb — “Golden Horn, The,” by Edgar Pangborn

  1962 — May — “Next Logical Step, The,” by Ben Bova

  1962 — Aug — “Sail 25,” by Jack Vance

  1963 — Jun — “Demi-Urge, The,” by Tom Disch

  1963 — Nov — “Rose for Ecclesiastes, A,” by Roger Zelazny

  1964 — Oct — “Soldier, Ask Not,” by Gordon R. Dickson

  1965 — May — “Man in His Time,” by Brian W. Aldiss

  1966 — Jan — “Riverworld,” by Philip José Farmer

  1966 — Feb — “Day Million,” by Frederick Pohl

  1966 — Apr — “Lady Margaret, The,” by Keith Roberts

  1966 — Oct — “Neutron Star,” by Larry Niven

  1967 — Feb — “Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne,” by R. A. Lafferty

  1967 — Jun — “Driftglass,” by Samuel R. Delany

  1967 — Oct — “Weyr Search,” by Anne McCaffrey

  1968 — Dec — “Passengers,” by Robert Silverberg

  1971 — Sep — “No Direction Home,” by Norman Spinrad

  1972 — Jun — “Hero,” by Joe Haldeman

  1974 — “Her Smoke Rose Up Forever,” by James Tiptree Jr.

  1974 — Nov — “If This Is Winnetka, You Must Be Judy,” by F. M. Busby

  1975 — Aug — “Ranks of Bronze,” by David Drake

  1977 — “The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps,” by Gene Wolfe

  1977 — Jul — “Jeffty Is Five,” by Harlan Ellison

  1978 — Mar — “Persistence of Vision, The,” by John Varley

  1978 — Mar — “Seven American Nights,” by Gene Wolfe

  1979 — “Martian Sends A Postcard Home, A,” by Craig Raine

  1980 — Apr — “Grotto of the Dancing Deer,” by Clifford D. Simak

  1980 — Aug — “Ugly Chickens, The,” by Howard Waldrop

  1981 — Sep — “Going Under,” by Jack Dann

  1982 — Jan — “Souls,” by Joanna Russ

  1982 — Jun — “Melancholy Elephants,” by Spider Robinson

  1982 — Jul — “Letter from the Clearys, A,” by Connie Willis

  1983 — Jan — “Saul’s Death,” by Joe Haldeman

  1983 — Jun — “Blood Music,” by Greg Bear

  1984 — Jun — “Bloodchild,” by Octavia Butler

  1984 — Jun — “Lucky Strike, The,” by Kim Stanley Robinson

  1986 — Jan — “Pretty Boy Crossover,” by Pat Cadigan

  1986 — Apr — “Fiddling for Water Buffaloes,” by S. P. Somtow

  1986 — Jun — “Senses Three and Six,” by David Brin

  1987 — Apr — “Rachel in Love,” by Pat Murphy

  1987 — Apr — “White Trains,” by Lucius Shepard

  1989 — Apr — “Edge of the World,” by Michael Swanwick

  1989 — May — “Mountains of Mourning, The,” by Lois McMaster Bujold

  1989 — Nov — “Dogwalker,” by Orson Scott Card

  1989 — Dec — “Little Worker,” by Paul Di Filippo

  1989 — Dec — “For I Have Touched the Sky,” by Mike Resnick

  1990 — Aug — “Bears Discover Fire,” by Terry Bisson

  1991 — Jan — “Buffalo,” by John Kessel

  1991 — Jan — “City of Truth,” by James Morrow

  1991 — Apr — “They’re Made out of Meat,” by Terry Bisson

  1992 — Jan — “First Contact with the Gorgonids, The,” by Ursula K. Le Guin

  1992 — Jul — “Barnacle Bill the Spacer,” by Lucius Shepard

  1993 — Sep — “Uncle Joshua and the Grooglemen,” by Debra Doyle and — James D. Macdonald

  1994 — Mar — “Good with Rice,” by John Brunner

  1994 — Dec — “Split Light,” by Lisa Goldstein

  1995 — Apr — “Lincoln Train, The,” by Maureen F. McHugh

  1995 — Jun — “Think Like a Dinosaur,” by James Patrick Kelly

  1995 — Aug — “Microbe,” by Joan Slonczewski

  1995 — Dec — “Hand to Hand,” by Elizabeth Moon

  1996 — Jan — “Hardened Criminals, The,” by Jonathan Lethem

  1996 — Jan — “Bicycle Repairman,” by Bruce Sterling

  1997 — Feb — “Three Hearings on the Existence of — Snakes in the Human Bloodstream,” by James Alan Gardner

  1997 — Mar — “Noble Mold,” by Kage Baker

  1997 — May — “Firefly Tree, The,” by Jack Williamson

  1997 — Aug — “Standing Room Only,” by Karen Joy Fowler

  1999 — Oct — “Habit of Waste, A,” by Nalo Hopkinson

  2000 — Jun — “Muffin Migration, The,” by Alan Dean Foster

  2000 — Jul — “Roll of the Dice, A,” by Catherine Asaro

  2001 — Jun — “Lobsters,” by Charles Stross

  2001 — Jul — “Hell is the Absence of God,” by Ted Chiang

  2001 — Nov — “Fast Times at Fairmont High,” by Vernor Vinge

  2002 — May — “Sandman, the Tinman and the — BettyB, The,” by C. J. Cherryh

  2002 — May — “Madonna of the Maquiladora,” by Gregory Frost

  2003 — Jan — “At the Conclusion of an Interstellar War” Darrell Schweitzer

  2003 — Jul — “Alternate Histories,” by Darrell Schweitzer

  2004 — Jun — “My Mother, Dancing,” by Nancy Kress

  2004 — Sep — “Griots of the Galaxy,” by Andrea Hairston

  2004 — Sep — “Death and What Comes Next,” by Terry Pratchett

  2005 — Feb — “Little Faces,” by Vonda N. McIntyre

  2005 — Nov — “Scientific Romance,” by Darrell Schweitzer

  2006 — Jan — “Flashes,” by Robert J. Sawyer

  2006 — Jun — “Bow Shock,” by Gregory Benford

  2006 — Aug — “When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth,” by Cory Doctorow

  2007 — Sep — “What Wolves Know,” by Kit Reed

  2008 — Feb — “Evil Robot Monkey,” by Mary Robinette Kowal

  2008 — Nov — Dance Dance Revolution — Cathy Park Hong

  2011 — Feb — “Star and the Rockets, The,” by Harry Turtledove

  2011 — July — “Shadow Catcher,” by Ayana R. Abdallah

  List of Poems

  “A Martian Sends A Postcard Home,” by Craig Raine

  “Afterwards,” by Clark Ashton Smith

  “Alternate Histories,” by Darrell Schweitzer

  “At the Conclusion of an Interstellar War,” by Darrell Schweitzer

  Dance Dance Revolution Cathy Park Hong

  “Future States,” by D. H. Lawrence

  “Future War,” by D. H. Lawrence

  “Harbour Whistles,” by H. P. Lovecraft

  “Her Lips Are Copper Wire,” by Jean Toomer

  “Lunar Baedeker,” by Mina Loy

  “Man and Machine,” by D. H. Lawrence

  “Men Like Gods,” by D. H. Lawrence

  “Nightmare for Future Reference,” by Stephen Vincent Benét

  “Oh Wonderful Machine!,” by D. H. Lawrence

  “Robot Feelings,” by D. H. Lawrence

  “Robot-Democracy,” by D. H. Lawrence

  “Saul’s Death,” by Joe Haldeman

  “Scientific Romance,” by Darrell Schweitzer

  “Sea-Bathers,” by D. H. Lawrence

  “Shadow Catcher,” by Ayana R. Abdallah

  “The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps,” by Gene Wolfe

  “The Star-Treader,” by Clark Ashton Smith

  “The Triumph,” by of the Machine D. H. Lawrence

  “Wellsian Futures,” by D. H. Lawrence

  “White Trains,” by Lucius Shepard

  List of Essays

  After the End: Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction, by Irene Sywenky, University of Alberta

  Aliens and Alien Worlds Ericka Hoagland, Stephen F. Austin

  Alternate History Andrew M. Gordon, University of Florida

  American Science Fiction Magazines Hildy Silverman

  Avoiding Publishing Scams Leigh Grossman, University of Connecticut

  Awards in Science Fiction Lauren Cunningham

  Black Women Writing Speculative Fiction Ayana R. Abdallah, University of Houston

  Canadian Science Fiction in English Ruby S. Ramraj, University of Calgary

  Conventions and Fandom Sheri Giglio

 

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