Anthologies
Stories to lift you straight out of this world! Are you ready to meet an elephant with a wooden leg? A Martian who has married your daughter? An entire island of beautiful girls just waiting for your touch? A house that spies on you when you go to bed? Be warned! ANTIGRAV is a collection of incredible stories from today's topmost writers of science fiction. And they've made some important discoveries you won't believe - until they happen to you. Contents: - Introduction by Philip Strick - Space Rats of the C.C.C. (1974) by Harry Harrison - How the World Was Saved ( Jak ocalał świat? , 1964) by Stanisław Lem - It Was Nothing—Really! (1969) by Theodore Sturgeon - The Glitch (1974) by James Blish and L. Jerome Stanton - Conversation on a Starship in Warpdrive (1975) by John Brosnan - The Alibi Machine (1973) by Larry Niven - Emergency Society (1975) by Uta Frith - Look, You Think You've Got Troubles (1969) by Carol Carr - A Delightful Comedic Premise (1974) by Barry N. Malzberg - Trolls (1975) by Robert Borski - Elephant with Wooden Leg (1975) by John Sladek - Planting Time (1975) by Pete Adams and Charles Nightingale - By the Seashore (1973) by R.A. Lafferty - Hardcastle (1971) by Ron Goulart - The Ergot Show (1972) by Brian W. Aldiss Cover illustration by Graham Dean
Gathers literary fairy tales by authors from Apuleius, Charles Perrault, Wilhelm Grimm, and Nathaniel Hawthorne to James Thurber, Italo Calvino, Stanislaw Lem, and Jane Yolen
The best single-volume anthology of science fiction available―includes online teacher's guide The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction features over a 150 years' worth of the best science fiction ever collected in a single volume. The fifty-two stories and critical introductions are organized chronologically as well as thematically for classroom use. Filled with luminous ideas, otherworldly adventures, and startling futuristic speculations, these stories will appeal to all readers as they chart the emergence and evolution of science fiction as a modern literary genre. They also provide a fascinating look at how our Western technoculture has imaginatively expressed its hopes and fears from the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century to the digital age of today. A free online teacher's guide at http://sfanthology.site.wesleyan.edu/ accompanies the anthology and offers access to a host of pedagogical aids for using this book in an academic setting. The stories in this anthology have been selected and introduced by the editors of Science Fiction Studies, the world's most respected journal for the critical study of science fiction.