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Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology

Eric S. Rabkin

First published 1983
Publisher Oxford University Press
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Yves Tanguy
Pages x+529
Price $19.95
ISBN 0195032713

  • "First published by Oxford University Press 1983"
  • Month from Contento1
  • "Printing (last digit): 987654321", thus first printing
  • "Jacket design by Egon Lauterberg" and "Cover illustration, Yves Tanguy, Indefinite Divisibility, 1942" on back flap of jacket. ISBN and $19.95 price on front flap.

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Introduction (Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology) Eric S. Rabkin Essay
9 The Emergence of Modern Science Eric S. Rabkin Essay
13 From "Other Worlds" Cyrano de Bergerac Short Fiction
36 From "Gulliver's Travels" Jonathan Swift Short Fiction
51 Micromégas Voltaire Short Story
71 Nineteenth Century Eric S. Rabkin Essay
76 The Sand-Man E. T. A. Hoffmann Novelette
113 From "Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus" Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Short Fiction
134 A Descent Into the Maelstrom Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
152 The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
162 Rappaccini's Daughter Nathaniel Hawthorne Novelette
194 From "Looking Backward 2000-1887" Edward Bellamy Short Fiction
209 A Curious Fragment Jack London Short Story
219 Early Twentieth Century Eric S. Rabkin Essay
222 The Star H. G. Wells Short Story
234 From "Ralph 124C 41+" (excerpt) Hugo Gernsback Short Fiction
249 The Last Poet and the Robots Abraham Merritt Short Story
264 Twilight John W. Campbell Novelette
287 From "Star Maker" Olaf Stapledon Short Fiction
315 The Golden Years Eric S. Rabkin Essay
318 Reason Isaac Asimov Short Story
338 Desertion Clifford D. Simak Short Story
352 The City Ray Bradbury Short Story
359 The Third Level Jack Finney Short Story
364 The Star Arthur C. Clarke Short Story
371 Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes Novelette
402 All You Zombies— Robert A. Heinlein Short Story
415 Earth Eighteen Frederik Pohl Short Story
427 The Modern Period Eric S. Rabkin Essay
428 For a Breath I Tarry Roger Zelazny Novelette
467 I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream Harlan Ellison Short Story
484 Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? Robert Sheckley Short Story
494 Vaster Than Empires and More Slow Ursula K. Le Guin Novelette
527 Index (Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology) uncredited Essay
[vii] Preface (Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology) Eric S. Rabkin Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology Cover 1983 Oxford University Press Trade Paperback Anthology Yves Tanguy x+529