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The Norton book of science fiction : North American science fiction, 1960-1990 / edited by Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery ; Karen Joy Fowler, consultant.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction, American.
- Short stories.
- Genre:
- Science fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 869 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Book of science fiction
- Science fiction
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, [1993]
- Summary:
- Contains 67 science fiction stories published since 1960.
- Contents:
- Handler / Damon Knight
- Alpha Ralpha Boulevard / Cordwainer Smith
- Tandy's story / Theodore Sturgeon
- 2064, or thereabouts / David R. Bunch
- Balanced ecology / James H. Schmitz
- House the Blakeneys built / Avram Davidson
- Over the river and through the woods / Clifford D. Simak
- How beautiful with banners / James Blish
- Nine hundred grandmothers / R.A. Lafferty
- When I was Miss Dow / Sonya Dorman Hess
- Comes now the power / Roger Zelazny
- Day million / Frederik Pohl
- Winter flies / Fritz Leiber
- High Weir / Samuel R. Delany
- Kyrie / Poul Anderson
- For the sake of Grace / Suzette Haden Elgin
- As simple as that / Zenna Henderson
- Good news from the Vatican / Robert Silverberg
- Gather blue roses / Pamela Sargent
- Women men don't see / James Tiptree, Jr.
- Feather tigers / Gene Wolfe
- Mountains of sunset, the mountains of dawn / Vonda N. McIntyre
- Private war of Private Jacob / Joe Haldeman
- Warlord of Saturn's moons / Eleanor Arnason
- Making it all the way into the future on Gaxton Falls of the red planet / Barry N. Malzberg.
- New Atlantis / Ursula K. LeGuin
- Few things I know about Whileaway / Joanna Russ
- Strange wine / Harlan Ellison
- Lollipop and the tar baby / John Varley
- Night-rise / Katherine MacLean
- Frozen journey / Philip K. Dick
- Precession / Edward Bryant
- Elbow room / Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Tauf Aleph / Phyllis Gotlieb
- Exposures / Gregory Benford
- Gernsback continuum / William Gibson
- Start of the end of the world / Carol Emshwiller
- Schrödinger's plague / Greg Bear
- "
- the world, as we know 't" / Howard Waldrop
- Byrds / Michael G. Coney
- Speech sounds / Octavia Butler
- Distant signals / Andrew Weiner
- Lucky strike / Kim Stanley Robinson
- Life of anybody / Robert Sheckley
- Interlocking pieces / Molly Gloss
- War at home / Lewis Shiner
- Lake was full of artificial things / Karen Joy Fowler
- Snow / John Crowley
- After the days of dead-eye 'Dee / Pat Cadigan
- Bob Dylan Tambourine Software & Satori Support Services Consortium, Ltd. / Michael Bishop
- His vegetable wife / Pat Murphy
- Brains of rats / Michael Blumlein.
- Out of all them bright stars / Nancy Kress
- Rat / James Patrick Kelly
- America / Orson Scott Card
- Schwarzschild radius / Connie Willis
- Stable strategies for middle management / Eileen Gunn
- Kirinyaga / Mike Resnick
- Midwinter's tale / Michael Swanwick
- (Learning about) machine sex / Candas Jane Dorsey
- We see things differently / Bruce Sterling
- Half-life / Paul Preuss
- Homelanding / Margaret Atwood
- And the angels sing / Kate Wilhelm
- Aunt Parnetta's electric blisters / Diane Glancy
- Midnight news / Lisa Goldstein
- Invaders / John Kessel.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Cover: Dale O'Dell.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 24518
- ISBN:
- 0393035468
- 9780393035469
- 0393972410
- 9780393972412
- OCLC:
- 27382749
- Online:
- http://www.levity.com/corduroy/leguin.htm
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