Research Catalog

Title

The Norton book of science fiction : North American science fiction, 1960-1990 / edited by Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery ; Karen Joy Fowler, consultant.

Publication

New York : W.W. Norton, c1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018.
• Attebery, Brian, 1951-

Description

869 p.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

• Book of science fiction
• Science fiction

Subject

Science fiction, American

Genre/Form

• Science fiction.
• Short stories.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

• The handler / Damon Knight -- Alpha Ralpha Boulevard / Cordwainer Smith -- Tandy's story / Theodore Sturgeon -- 2064, or thereabouts / David R. Bunch -- Balanced ecology / James H. Schmitz -- The house the Blakeneys built / Avram Davidson -- Over the river and through the woods / Clifford D. Simak -- How beautiful with banners / James Blish -- Nine hundred grandmothers / R. A. Lafferty -- When I was Miss Dow / Sonya Dorman Hess -- Comes now the power / Roger Zelazny -- Day million / Frederik Pohl -- The winter flies / Fritz Leiber -- High Weir / Samuel R. Delany -- Kyrie / Poul Anderson -- For the sake of Grace / Suzette Haden Elgin -- As simple as that / Zenna Henderson -- Good news from the Vatican / Robert Silverberg -- Gather blue roses / Pamela Sargent -- The women men don't see / James Tiptree, Jr. -- Feather tigers / Gene Wolfe -- The mountains of sunset, the mountains of dawn / Vonda N. McIntyre -- The private war of Private Jacob / Joe Haldeman -- The warlord of Saturn's moons / Eleanor Arnason -- Making it all the way into the future on Gaxton Falls of the red planet / Barry N. Malzberg.
• The new Atlantis / Ursula K. LeGuin -- A few things I know about Whileaway / Joanna Russ -- Strange wine / Harlan Ellison -- Lollipop and the tar baby / John Varley -- Night-rise / Katherine MacLean -- Frozen journey / Philip K. Dick -- Precession / Edward Bryant -- Elbow room / Marion Zimmer Bradley -- Tauf Aleph / Phyllis Gotlieb -- Exposures / Gregory Benford -- The Gernsback continuum / William Gibson -- The start of the end of the world / Carol Emshwiller -- Schrödinger's plague / Greg Bear -- "--the world, as we know 't" / Howard Waldrop -- The byrds / Michael G. Coney -- Speech sounds / Octavia Butler -- Distant signals / Andrew Weiner -- The lucky strike / Kim Stanley Robinson -- The life of anybody / Robert Sheckley -- Interlocking pieces / Molly Gloss -- The war at home / Lewis Shiner -- The lake was full of artificial things / Karen Joy Fowler -- Snow / John Crowley -- After the days of dead-eye 'Dee / Pat Cadigan -- The Bob Dylan Tambourine Software & Satori Support Services Consortium, Ltd. / Michael Bishop -- His vegetable wife / Pat Murphy -- The brains of rats / Michael Blumlein.
• Out of all them bright stars / Nancy Kress -- Rat / James Patrick Kelly -- America / Orson Scott Card -- Schwarzschild radius / Connie Willis -- Stable strategies for middle management / Eileen Gunn -- Kirinyaga / Mike Resnick -- A midwinter's tale / Michael Swanwick -- (Learning about) machine sex / Candas Jane Dorsey -- We see things differently / Bruce Sterling -- Half-life / Paul Preuss -- Homelanding / Margaret Atwood -- And the angels sing / Kate Wilhelm -- Aunt Parnetta's electric blisters / Diane Glancy -- Midnight news / Lisa Goldstein -- Invaders / John Kessel.

Call Number

JFE 95-3839

ISBN

0393035468

LCCN

93016130

OCLC

27382749

Title

The Norton book of science fiction : North American science fiction, 1960-1990 / edited by Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery ; Karen Joy Fowler, consultant.

Imprint

New York : W.W. Norton, c1993.

Edition

1st ed.

Added Author

Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018.

Attebery, Brian, 1951-

Research Call Number

JFE 95-3839