The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction
by Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Carol McGuirk, Rob Latham, Edmond Hamilton, Leslie F. Stone, C.L. Moore, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Isaac Asimov, Clifford D. Simak, Theodore Sturgeon, Judith Merril, Fritz Leiber, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Sheckley, William Tenn, Alfred Bester, Avram Davidson, Cordwainer Smith, Robert A. Heinlein, R.A. Lafferty, Harlan Ellison, Frederik Pohl, Philip K. Dick, Samuel R. Delany, Pamela Zoline, Robert Silverberg, Brian W. Aldiss, Ursula K. Le Guin, Frank Herbert, Stanisław Lem, Joanna Russ, James Tiptree Jr., John Varley, Carol Emshwiller, Nancy Kress, Pat Cadigan, Kate Wilhelm, J.G. Ballard, Bruce Sterling, Misha Nogha, Eileen Gunn, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Octavia E. Butler, E. M. Forster, William Gibson, Wells M.
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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.
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