Search Worlds Without End

For years, those bringing SF into the classroom have had to improvise their course materials from anthologies and collections not designed for classwork. Now, David G. Hartwell, award-winning anthologist, and Professor Milton T. Wolf, Vice President of the Science Fiction Research Association, present a carefully selected reading anthology reflecting the SF field in all its modern diversity. Here are Golden Age writers like John W. Campbell and Jack Williamson, and here also are towering latter-day titans like Gene Wolfe and Ursula K. Le Guin, along with today's popular writers such as Greg Bear, Robert Jordan, and Vernor Vinge.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by David G. Hartwell and Milton T. Wolf
• Critics - (1956) - essay by Damon Knight
• The Ship Who Sang - (1961) - novelette by Anne McCaffrey
• Blood Music - (1983) - novelette by Greg Bear
• Paperjack - (1991) - novelette by Charles de Lint
• Forever Yours, Anna - (1987) - shortstory by Kate Wilhelm
• The Golden Age of Science Fiction Is Twelve - (1984) - essay by David G. Hartwell
• Mr. Boy - (1990) - novella by James Patrick Kelly
• Jamboree - (1969) - shortstory by Jack Williamson
• The Death of Doctor Island - (1973) - novella by Gene Wolfe
• Ender's Game - (1977) - novelette by Orson Scott Card
• "What Do You Mean... Human?" - (1959) - essay by John W. Campbell, Jr.
• Bears Discover Fire - (1990) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
• One Down, One to Go - (1990) - shortstory by Philip José Farmer
• Sur - (1982) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Introduction (England Swings SF) - (1968) - essay by Judith Merril
• Doing Lennon - (1975) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
• A Tupolev Too Far - (1989) - novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
• Them Old Hyannis Blues - (1992) - shortstory by Judith Tarr
• Paradise Charted - (1980) - essay by Algis Budrys
• Masque of the Red Shift - (1965) - novelette by Fred Saberhagen
• Redemption in the Quantum Realm - (1994) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl
• Devil You Don't Know - (1978) - novelette by Dean Ing
• The Eye of the World (extract) - (1990) - shortstory by Robert Jordan
• Split Light - (1994) - shortstory by Lisa Goldstein
• Science Fiction & The Adventures of the Spherical Cow - (1988) - essay by Kathryn Cramer
• The Sun Spider - (1987) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
• Science Fiction and "Literature" -- or, The Conscience of the King - (1979) - essay by Samuel R. Delany
• Souls - (1982) - novella by Joanna Russ
• Overdrawn at the Memory Bank - (1976) - novelette by John Varley
• The Girl Who Was Plugged In - (1973) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Burning Chrome - (1982) - novelette by William Gibson
• Towards an Aesthetic of Science Fiction - (1975) - essay by Joanna Russ
• Identifying the Object - (1990) - novelette by Gwyneth Jones
• The Mountain to Mohammed - (1992) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• Wall, Stone, Craft - (1993) - novella by Walter Jon Williams
• Boobs - (1989) - shortstory by Suzy McKee Charnas
• To Bring in Fine Things: The Significance of Science Fiction Plots - (1989) - essay by Brian Stableford
• Spider Silk - (1976) - novelette by Andre Norton
• A Braver Thing - (1990) - novelette by Charles Sheffield
• Getting Real - (1991) - novelette by Susan Shwartz
• True Names - (1981) - novella by Vernor Vinge
• Science Fiction: A Selective Guide to Scholarship - (1996) - essay by Gary K. Wolfe