The Road to Science Fiction 2: From Wells to Heinlein
Author: | James E. Gunn |
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New American Library, 1979 |
Series: | The Road to Science Fiction: Book 2 |
1. The Road to Science Fiction |
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Book Type: | Anthology |
Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction - (1979) - essay by James E. Gunn
- Science: The New Accelerator - essay by James E. Gunn
- The New Accelerator - (1901) - shortstory by H. G. Wells
- The Literary Dissent - essay by James E. Gunn
- The Machine Stops - (1909) - novelette by E. M. Forster
- Island in the Sky, or Romance Triumphant - essay by James E. Gunn
- The Chessmen of Mars (chap. 2-3) (Excerpt) - (1922) - shortfiction by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- More Things Under Heaven and Earth - essay by James E. Gunn
- The People of the Pit - (1918) - shortstory by A. Merritt
- The Call of the Fantastic - essay by James E. Gunn
- The Red One - (1918) - novelette by Jack London
- The Horror Out of Providence - essay by James E. Gunn
- Dagon - (1919) - shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft
- The Science-Fiction Magazine Begins It's Amazing Career - essay by James E. Gunn
- The Tissue-Culture King - (1926) - shortstory by Julian Huxley
- Pedestrian Words, Soaring Concepts - essay by James E. Gunn
- The Revolt of the Pedestrians - (1928) - shortstory by David H. Keller, M.D.
- The Philosopher of Time and Space - essay by James E. Gunn
- Last and First Men (excerpt, chap. XIII) - (1930) - shortfiction by Olaf Stapledon
- Ford's in His Flivver - essay by James E. Gunn
- Brave New World (chapters 16-17) - (1932) - shortfiction by Aldous Huxley
- The Alien from Milwaukee - essay by James E. Gunn
- A Martian Odyssey - (1934) - novelette by Stanley G. Weinbaum
- Who Went There? - essay by James E. Gunn
- Twilight - (1934) - shortstory by John W. Campbell, Jr.
- The Idea Machine - essay by James E. Gunn
- Proxima Centauri - (1935) - novella by Murray Leinster
- The World-Wrecker on Mars - essay by James E. Gunn
- What's It Like Out There? - (1952) - novelette by Edmond Hamilton
- The Legion of Science Fiction - essay by James E. Gunn
- With Folded Hands... - [Humanoids] - (1947) - novelette by Jack Williamson
- Mission of Levity - essay by James E. Gunn
- Hyperpilosity - (1938) - shortstory by L. Sprague de Camp
- The Alchemists Gather - essay by James E. Gunn
- The Faithful - (1938) - shortstory by Lester del Rey
- The Fairy Tales of Science - essay by James E. Gunn
- Black Destroyer - [Space Beagle] - (1939) - novelette by A. E. van Vogt
- The Stars Appear - essay by James E. Gunn
- Nightfall - (1941) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
- The Man Who Sold the Genre - essay by James E. Gunn
- Requiem - [D. D. Harriman] - (1940) - shortstory by Robert A. Heinlein
- A Chronology of Science Fiction - (1979) - essay by uncredited
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