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Original Title:	The World Treasury of Science Fiction
ISBN:	0316349410 (ISBN13: 9780316349413)
Edition Language:	English

The World Treasury of Science Fiction Hardcover | Pages: 1112 pages

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Title	:	The World Treasury of Science Fiction
Author	:	David G. Hartwell
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1112 pages
Published	:	March 1st 1989 by Little Brown & Company (Boston) (first published January 1989)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Short Stories. Anthologies

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Table of contents

Introduction 1988 essay by David G. Hartwell
Harrison Bergeron 1961 story by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Forgetfulness 1937 story by John W. Campbell Jr
Special Flight 1939 story by John Berryman
Chronopolis 1960 story by J.G. Ballard
Triceratops 1974 story by Kono Tensei
The Man Who Lost the Sea 1959 story by Theodore Sturgeon
On the Inside Track 1986 story by Karl Michael Armer
The Golem 1983 story by Avram Davidson
The New Prehistory 1972 story by René Rebetez-Cortes
A Meeting With Medusa 1972 novella by Arthur C. Clark
The Valley of Echoes 1973 story by Gérard Klein
The Fifth Head of Cerberus 1972 novella by Gene Wolfe
The Chaste Planet 1983 story by John Updike
The Blind Pilot 1960 story by Nathalie-Charles Henneberg
The Men Who Murdered Mohammed 1958 story by Alfred Bester
Pairpuppets 1974 story by Manuel van Loggem
Two Dooms 1958 story by C.M. Kornbluth
The Tale of the Computer That Fought a Dragon 1977 story by Stanislaw Lem
The Green Hills of Earth 1947 story by Robert A. Heinlein
Ghost V 1957 story by Robert Sheckley
The Phantom of Kansas 1976 story by John Varley
Captain Nemo's Last Stand 1973 story by Josef Nesvadba
Inconstant Moon 1971 story by Larry Niven
The Gold at the Starbow's End 1971 story by Frederik Pohl
A Sign In Space 1968 story by Italo Calvino
The Spiral 1968 story by Italo Calvino
The Dead Past 1956 story by Isaac Asimov
The Lens 1977 story by Annemarie van Ewyck
The Hurkle Is a Happy Beast 1949 story by Theodore Sturgeon
Zero Hour 1947 story by Ray Bradbury
Nine Lives 1969 story by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Muse 1964 story by Anthony Burgess
The Public Hating 1955 story by Steve Allen
Poor Superman 1951 story by Fritz Leiber
Angouleme 1974 story by Thomas M. Disch
Stranger Station 1956 story by Damon Knight
The Dead Fish 1955 story by Boris Vian
I Was the First to Find You 1977 story by Kirill Bulychev
The Lineman 1957 novella by Walter M. Miller Jr
Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius 1962 story by Jorge Luís Borges
Codemus 1968 story by Tor Age Bringsvaerd
A Kind if Artistry 1962 story by Brian Aldiss
Second Variety 1953 story by Philip K. Dick
Weihnachtsabend 1972 story by Keith Roberts
I Do Not Love Thee, Doctor Fell 1955 story by Robert Bloch
Aye, & Gomorrah... 1967 story by Samuel R. Delany
How Erg the Self-Inducting Slew a Paleface 1977 story by Stanislaw Lem
Nobody's Home 1972 story by Joanna Russ
Party Line 1973 story by Gérard Klein
The Proud Robot 1943 story by Lewis Padgett
Vintage Season 1946 story by Henry Kuttner & C.L. Moore
The Way to Amalteia 1984 novella by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky

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As good a collection of fine sf as you are likely to find, there are very few clunkers here. It is, however, a product of a different era of science fiction and the preponderance of white, male, primarily European voices is a bit of a shock from the perspective of current publishing. Since the most recent story was published in 1986 and the earliest, by the venerable John W. Campbell, in 1937 this is not surprising but it does leave some of the stories and styles feeling quite dated. A World



Being a complete newbie to the Sci-Fi genre (I read mostly fantasy) I picked this up at the library. I didn't notice at the time that the book was only one year younger then I am, and the majority of the stories were quite a bit older then the publication date of this collection. I enjoyed a few of the stories in it, but not enough that I would recommend this to anyone. I'm not sure whether it was the age of the writing, and that I'm simply not a fan of the styles at the time, or if the stories

Some excellent and inspiring stories from all over. This was a gift from my family from years ago. I've been reading the stories off an on since 2006. Recommended!

"Harrison Bergeron" (1961): 9 - Leave it to Vonnegut to complicate the classic, easily replicable libertarian anti-communalism sf of postwar America. In many ways, I'm sympathetic to complaints that we're reading too much into certain tropes -- esp. as they appear in the work of those producing for pulp-like environments -- of genre fiction, and especially so when it comes to near-future stories like these: both the premise of "equality" and the "logical" steps towards the (intentional or not)

This is a massive, wide-ranging collection of science fiction pieces, compiled by Hartwell, the long-time editor of the "Year's Best SF" & "Year's Best Fantasy" serieses, a couple of which I have read and enjoyed. There can be no question regarding his ability to identify first-rate imaginative writing. The pieces in this collection run the gamut of SF from the 1930s or 1940s up to 1989, and a number of them are by foreign scribes, mostly from Europe, along with the expected Americans and

This is probably the best science fiction anthology that I have seen.Its attractions are many.1. The Introduction by David HartwellIn his Introduction, Hartwell presents an overview history of science fiction writing, starting in 1929 with Hugo Gernsbacks coinage of the term from a previous term, scientific romance. In the first issue of Amazing Stories, he defined it as charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision.Most of the action in the 1930s occurred in the U.S.,