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Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts (Compact Edition)

Heather Masri

First published 2015
Publisher Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art René Magritte
Pages xix+796
Price $45.00
ISBN 9781457674464

Anthology of genre stories designed for use in an academic setting. The compact edition is 400 pages less than the original so significantly different.

  • Data from Internet Archive scan
  • Compact Edition
  • First printing per number line
  • Contains a 2015 copyright statement. Amazon.com date is 2014-08-15 as of 2017-04-06.
  • Cover artist credit per copyright page
  • Cover design by Donna L. Dennison per copyright page
  • No price on book. Price from Amazon.com as of 2017-04-06.
  • Each story is preceded on title page with an introduction to the author & story
  • "The Shadow" translated by R. F. C. Hull
  • "The Fact of Blackness" translated by Charles Lam Markmann
  • "The Precession of Simulacra" translated by Sheila Faria Glaser
  • "From Being and Nothingness" translated by Hazel Barnes
  • "From The Myth of the Eternal Return" translated by Willard R. Trask

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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 A Martian Odyssey Stanley G. Weinbaum Novelette
38 Arena Fredric Brown Novelette
59 Mars Is Heaven! Ray Bradbury Short Story
74 When I Was Miss Dow Sonya Dorman Short Story
83 Vaster Than Empires and More Slow Ursula K. Le Guin Novelette
106 Wang's Carpets Greg Egan Novelette
132 The Shadow Carl Gustav Jung Essay
135 The Fact of Blackness Frantz Fanon Essay
140 Artificial Life Heather Masri Essay
141 Liar! Isaac Asimov Short Story
155 Second Variety Philip K. Dick Novelette
191 Baby, You Were Great! Kate Wilhelm Short Story
201 The Girl Who Was Plugged In James Tiptree, Jr. Novelette
230 Burning Chrome William Gibson Novelette
246 The Algorithms for Love Ken Liu Short Story
257 The Precession of Simulacra Jean Baudrillard Essay
271 A Cyborg Manifesto Donna J. Haraway Essay
291 Time Heather Masri Essay
293 Vintage Season C. L. Moore Novelette
326 "All You Zombies—" Robert A. Heinlein Short Story
337 When We Went to See the End of the World Robert Silverberg Short Story
344 The Lucky Strike Kim Stanley Robinson Novelette
372 At the Rialto Connie Willis Novelette
390 Story of Your Life Ted Chiang Novella
427 From Being and Nothingness Jean-Paul Sartre Essay
436 To Build a Time Machine Michio Kaku Essay
453 Utopia and Dystopias Heather Masri Essay
455 The Country of the Kind Damon Knight Short Story
466 "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman Harlan Ellison Short Story
475 When It Changed Joanna Russ Short Story
482 The Persistence of Vision John Varley Novella
518 Kirinyaga Mike Resnick Novelette
533 Something to Hitch Meat To Nalo Hopkinson Novelette
546 From The Organization Man William H. Whyte, Jr. Essay
557 Progress Versus Utopia; or, Can We Imagine the Future? Fredric Jameson Essay
573 Disasters and Apocalypses Heather Masri Essay
575 The Nine Billion Names of God Arthur C. Clarke Short Story
580 The Terminal Beach J. G. Ballard Novelette
597 How the World Was Saved Stanislaw Lem Short Story
601 Take Your Choice Sakyo Komatsu Short Story
612 Cassandra C. J. Cherryh Short Story
618 Recording Angel Ian McDonald Short Story
629 From The Myth of the Eternal Return Mircea Eliade Essay
647 The Imagination of Disaster Susan Sontag Essay
660 Evolutions Heather Masri Essay
661 Twilight John W. Campbell, Jr. Novelette
678 Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes Novelette
700 For a Breath I Tarry Roger Zelazny Novelette
728 Driftglass Samuel R. Delany Short Story
743 Blood Music Greg Bear Novelette
762 Bears Discover Fire Terry Bisson Short Story
770 Nonmoral Nature Stephen Jay Gould Essay
779 The Myth of the Ant Queen Steven Johnson (1968-) Essay
v Preface (Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts (Compact Edition)) Heather Masri Essay