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Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts

Heather Masri

First published 2008
Publisher Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art René Magritte
Pages xix+1242
Price $170.39
ISBN 9780312450151

Anthology of genre stories designed for use in an academic setting.

Data from Amazon.com & WorldCat as of 2017-04-06. Cover art credit from Compact Edition {{incomplete}}

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 A Brief Introduction to Science Fiction and Its History Heather Masri Essay
11 A Selective Guide to Science Fiction Research Heather Masri Essay
17 Alien Encounters Heather Masri Essay
18 The War of the Worlds (excerpt) H. G. Wells Short Fiction
32 A Martian Odyssey Stanley G. Weinbaum Novelette
52 Arena Fredric Brown Novelette
73 Mars Is Heaven! Ray Bradbury Short Story
87 When I Was Miss Dow Sonya Dorman Short Story
96 Vaster Than Empires and More Slow Ursula K. Le Guin Novelette
119 Bloodchild Octavia E. Butler Novelette
135 Wang's Carpets Greg Egan Novelette
161 Slow Life Michael Swanwick Novelette
179 The Second Sex (excerpt) Simone de Beauvoir Essay
186 The Shadow Carl Gustav Jung Essay
189 The Fact of Blackness Frantz Fanon Essay
194 Artificial Life Heather Masri Essay
195 The Sandman E. T. A. Hoffmann Novelette
221 Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (excerpt) Mary Shelley Short Fiction
231 R. U. R. Karel Čapek Novella
282 Liar! Isaac Asimov Short Story
296 Second Variety Philip K. Dick Novelette
331 Baby, You Were Great! Kate Wilhelm Short Story
342 The Girl Who Was Plugged In James Tiptree, Jr. Novelette
371 Burning Chrome William Gibson Novelette
386 Nekropolis Maureen F. McHugh Novelette
415 The Algorithms for Love Ken Liu Short Story
427 The Uncanny Sigmund Freud Essay
442 The Precession of Simulacra Jean Baudrillard Essay
455 A Cyborg Manifesto Donna J. Haraway Essay
476 Time Heather Masri Essay
478 Master Zacharius Jules Verne Novelette
503 The Gostak and the Doshes Miles J. Breuer, M.D. Short Story
517 Vintage Season C. L. Moore Novelette
551 "All You Zombies—" Robert A. Heinlein Short Story
561 When We Went to See the End of the World Robert Silverberg Short Story
568 The Lucky Strike Kim Stanley Robinson Novelette
596 At the Rialto Connie Willis Novelette
614 Story of Your Life Ted Chiang Novella
651 Start the Clock Benjamin Rosenbaum Short Story
664 From Being and Nothingness Jean-Paul Sartre Essay
673 The Historian and his Facts E. H. Carr Essay
685 To Build a Time Machine Michio Kaku Essay
702 Utopia and Dystopias Heather Masri Essay
704 We (excerpt) Yevgeny Zamyatin Short Fiction
716 The Weapon Shop A. E. van Vogt Novelette
748 The Country of the Kind Damon Knight Short Story
758 "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman Harlan Ellison Short Story
768 When It Changed Joanna Russ Short Story
774 The Persistence of Vision John Varley Novella
811 Kirinyaga Mike Resnick Novelette
826 Dead Space for the Unexpected Geoff Ryman Short Story
838 Something to Hitch Meat To Nalo Hopkinson Novelette
850 Ideology and Terror: A Novel Form of Government Hannah Arendt Essay
864 From The Organization Man William H. Whyte, Jr. Essay
876 Progress Versus Utopia; or, Can We Imagine the Future? Fredric Jameson Essay
892 Disasters and Apocalypses Heather Masri Essay
894 Omega: The Last Days of the World (excerpt) Camille Flammarion Short Fiction
904 Adam and No Eve Alfred Bester Short Story
915 The Nine Billion Names of God Arthur C. Clarke Short Story
921 The Terminal Beach J. G. Ballard Novelette
937 How the World Was Saved Stanislaw Lem Short Story
941 Cassandra C. J. Cherryh Short Story
947 Take Your Choice Sakyo Komatsu Short Story
958 Recording Angel Ian McDonald Short Story
969 When This World Is All on Fire William Sanders Novelette
984 From The Myth of the Eternal Return Mircea Eliade Essay
1002 The Imagination of Disaster Susan Sontag Essay
1015 The Whole World Gasped Paul Boyer (historian) Essay
1028 Evolutions Heather Masri Essay
1029 Rappaccini's Daughter Nathaniel Hawthorne Novelette
1052 Twilight John W. Campbell, Jr. Novelette
1068 Star Maker (excerpt) Olaf Stapledon Short Fiction
1084 Mimsy Were the Borogoves Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore Novelette
1110 Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes Novelette
1132 For a Breath I Tarry Roger Zelazny Novelette
1161 Driftglass Samuel R. Delany Short Story
1175 Blood Music Greg Bear Novelette
1194 Bears Discover Fire Terry Bisson Short Story
1203 Nonmoral Nature Stephen Jay Gould Essay
1211 Will the Robots Inherit the Earth? Marvin Minsky Essay
1222 The Myth of the Ant Queen Steven Johnson (1968-) Essay
v Preface (Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts) Heather Masri Essay