The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction

Edited by Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Joan Gordon,
Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham and Carol McGuirk

2010

Introduction xi

Chronological listing of stories

Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1844) 1

from Journey to the Center of the Earth / Jules Verne (1864) 26

* The Star / H. G. Wells (1897) 39

The Machine stops / E. M. Forster (1909) 50

The Man who evolved / Edmond Hamilton (1931) 79

* The Conquest of Gola / Leslie F. Stone (1931) 96

Shambleau / C. L. Moore (1933) 110

* A Martian odyssey / Stanley Weinbaum (1934) 136

Reason / Issac Asimov (1941) 160

* Desertion / Clifford D. Simak (1944) 177

Thunder and roses / Theodore Sturgeon (1947) 189

That only a mother / Judith Merril (1948) 211

Coming attraction / Fritz Leiber (1950) 221

There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury (1950) 234

The Sentinel / Arthur C. Clarke (1951) 241

Specialist / Robert Sheckley (1953) 250

* The Liberation of Earth / William Tenn (1953) 266

Fondly Fahrenheit / Alfred Bester (1954) 283

The Golem / Avram Davidson (1955) 303

* The Game of Rat and Dragon / Cordwainer Smith (1955) 309

'All you zombies―' / Robert A. Heinlein (1959) 324

The Cage of sand / J. G. Ballard (1962) 337

Slow Tuesday night / R. A. Lafferty (1965) 359

* Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman / Harlan Ellison (1965) 367

* Day million / Frederik Pohl (1966) 379

We can remember it for you wholesale / Philip K. Dick (1966) 385

* Aye, and Gomorrah... / Samuel R. Delany (1967) 405

The Heat death of the universe / Pamela Zoline (1967) 415

Passengers / Robert Silverberg (1968) 430

Super-toys last all summer long / Brian Aldiss (1969) 443

Nine lives / Ursula K. Le Guin (1969) 452

Seed stock / Frank Herbert (1970) 477

"The Seventh voyage," from The Star Diaries / Stanislaw Lem (1971) 490

* When it changed / Joanna Russ (1972) 507

* And I awoke and found me here on the cold hill's side / James Tiptree Jr. (1972) 516

Air raid / John Varley (1977) 525

Abominable / Carol Emshwiller (1980) 539

Burning chrome / William Gibson (1982) 547

Speech sounds / Octavia E. Butler (1983) 566

Out of all them bright stars / Nancy Kress (1985) 580

Pretty boy crossover / Pat Cadigan (1986) 587

Forever yours, Anna / Kate Wilhelm (1987) 598

We see things differently / Bruce Sterling (1989) 611

Chippoke Na Gomi / Misha Nogha (1989) 630

Computer friendly / Eileen Gunn (1989) 637

Invaders / John Kessel (1990) 654

Useful phrases / Gene Wolfe (1992) 675

Closer / Greg Egan (1992) 683

Think like a dinosaur / James Patrick Kelly (1995) 698

Everywhere / Geoff Ryman (1999) 717

Rogue farm / Charles Stross (2003) 727

Exhalation / Ted Chiang (2008) 742

Thematic listing of stories

Alien Encounters

Shambleau / C. L. Moore (1933) 110

A Martian odyssey / Stanley Weinbaum (1934) 136

The Sentinel / Arthur C. Clarke (1951) 241

Specialist / Robert Sheckley (1953) 250

Passengers / Robert Silverberg (1968) 430

Out of all them bright stars / Nancy Kress (1985) 580

Useful phrases / Gene Wolfe (1992) 675

Think like a dinosaur / James Patrick Kelly (1995) 698

Apocalypse and post-apocalypse

The Star / H. G. Wells (1897) 39

Coming attraction / Fritz Leiber (1950) 221

There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury (1950) 234

The Cage of sand / J. G. Ballard (1962) 337

Speech sounds / Octavia E. Butler (1983) 566

Chippoke Na Gomi / Misha Nogha (1989) 630

Artificial/posthuman life-forms

Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1844) 1

Reason / Issac Asimov (1941) 160

Fondly Fahrenheit / Alfred Bester (1954) 283

The Golem / Avram Davidson (1955) 303

Super-toys last all summer long / Brian Aldiss (1969) 443

Nine lives / Ursula K. Le Guin (1969) 452

Exhalation / Ted Chiang (2008) 742

Computers and virtual reality

We can remember it for you wholesale / Philip K. Dick (1966) 385

Burning chrome / William Gibson (1982) 547

Pretty boy crossover / Pat Cadigan (1986) 587

Computer friendly / Eileen Gunn (1989) 637

Evolution and environment

from Journey to the Center of the Earth / Jules Verne (1864) 26

The Man who evolved / Edmond Hamilton (1931) 79

Desertion / Clifford D. Simak (1944) 177

Seed stock / Frank Herbert (1970) 477

Rogue farm / Charles Stross (2003) 727

Gender and sexuality

The Conquest of Gola / Leslie F. Stone (1931) 96

Day million / Frederik Pohl (1966) 379

Aye, and Gomorrah... / Samuel R. Delany (1967) 405

The Heat death of the universe / Pamela Zoline (1967) 415

When it changed / Joanna Russ (1972) 507

And I awoke and found me here on the cold hill's side / James Tiptree Jr. (1972) 516

Abominable / Carol Emshwiller (1980) 539

Closer / Greg Egan (1992) 683

Time travel and alternate history

'All you zombies―' / Robert A. Heinlein (1959) 324

"The Seventh voyage," from The Star Diaries / Stanislaw Lem (1971) 490

Air raid / John Varley (1977) 525

Forever yours, Anna / Kate Wilhelm (1987) 598

Invaders / John Kessel (1990) 654

Utopias / dystopias

The Machine stops / E. M. Forster (1909) 50

Slow Tuesday night / R. A. Lafferty (1965) 359

Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman / Harlan Ellison (1965) 367

Everywhere / Geoff Ryman (1999) 717

War and conflict

Thunder and roses / Theodore Sturgeon (1947) 189

That only a mother / Judith Merril (1948) 211

The Liberation of Earth / William Tenn (1953) 266

The Game of Rat and Dragon / Cordwainer Smith (1955) 309

We see things differently / Bruce Sterling (1989) 611

Acknowledgments 757

Further reading 761

[About the editors 767]

SOURCE: The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction, edited by Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham and Carol McGuirk. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010. xviii, 767 pp. Contents, vii-x.

* =  Stories so marked can be found also in The Big Book of Science Fiction.