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Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology

Martin Harry Greenberg & Patricia Warrick & Joseph Olander

First published 1978
Publisher Harper & Row
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Pages xviii+476
ISBN 0060469439

  • Stated "First Edition" and printing number line "78 79 ... 2 1". Thus probably published simultaneously with the hard cover (date June 1978), or shortly thereafter, but we cannot be certain.
  • Pagination the same as for the hard cover edition. No price listed. Different cover.
  • Back flap of dust jacket: "Jacket design by Mark Rubin".

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Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Science Fiction Myths and Their Ambiguity Patricia Warrick Essay
9 Goat Song Poul Anderson Novelette
39 The Remarkable Adventure Philip José Farmer & Beverly Friend Essay
49 Brightside Crossing Alan E. Nourse Novelette
67 Before Eden Arthur C. Clarke Short Story
77 The Game of Rat and Dragon Cordwainer Smith Short Story
92 Beyond Reality's Barriers: New Dimensions Robert Silverberg & Charles Elkins Essay
101 Common Time James Blish Short Story
120 The Shadow of Space Philip José Farmer Novelette
146 Aliens Pamela Sargent & James Gunn Essay
157 Specialist Robert Sheckley Short Story
171 The Dance of the Changer and the Three Terry Carr Short Story
185 The Father-Thing Philip K. Dick Short Story
197 The Scientist L. Sprague de Camp & Thomas D. Clareson Essay
206 A Scientist Divides Donald Wandrei Short Story
219 Memorial Theodore Sturgeon Short Story
231 The Hole Man Larry Niven Short Story
244 The Machine and the Robot Isaac Asimov Essay
254 Twilight John W. Campbell, Jr. Novelette
273 The New Father Christmas Brian W. Aldiss Short Story
278 Computers Don't Argue Gordon R. Dickson Short Story
294 More Than Human?: Androids, Cyborgs, and Others George Zebrowski & Patricia Warrick Essay
307 Nine Lives Ursula K. Le Guin Novelette
331 Masks Damon Knight Short Story
342 Sea Change Thomas N. Scortia Short Story
354 Day Million Frederik Pohl Short Story
359 The City Theodore R. Cogswell & Ralph S. Clem Essay
365 Billennium J. G. Ballard Short Story
379 A Happy Day in 2381 Robert Silverberg Short Story
393 Utopias and Dystopias Frederik Pohl & Martin Harry Greenberg & Joseph D. Olander Essay
401 New York A.D. 2660 (excerpt) Hugo Gernsback Short Fiction
412 Coming Attraction Fritz Leiber Short Story
424 The Luckiest Man in Denv C. M. Kornbluth Short Story
435 Apocalypse Jack Williamson & David Ketterer Essay
441 The Game of Blood and Dust Roger Zelazny Short Story
445 All the Last Wars at Once George Alec Effinger Short Story
459 Notes on the Contributors (Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology) uncredited Essay
469 Index (Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology) uncredited Essay
ix Prefatory Comments (Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology) Frederik Pohl Essay
xi Prefatory Comments (Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology) Thomas D. Clareson Essay
xv Introduction: Mythic Patterns Patricia S. Warrick Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology Cover 1978 Harper & Row Hardcover Anthology Mark Rubin xviii+476
Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology 1998 HarperCollins Hardcover Anthology