Table of Contents

Introduction
H. G. Wells: The Land Ironclads
Frank L. Pollack: Finis
Rudyard Kipling: As Easy as ABC
Jack Williamson: The Metal Man
Stanley G. Weinbaum: A Martian Odyssey
John W. Campbell Jr.: Night
Clifford D. Simak: Desertion
'Lewis Padgett': The Piper's Son
A. E. van Vogt: The Monster
James H. Schmitz: The Second Night of Summer
Arthur C. Clarke: Second Dawn
Walter M. Miller Jr.: Crucifixus Etiam
Frederik Pohl: The Tunnel Under the World
Brian Aldiss: Who Can Replace a Man?
J. G. Ballard: Billennium
'Cordwainer Smith': The Ballard of Lost C'mell
Ursula K. Le Guin: Semley's Necklace
James Blish: How Beautiful with Banners
Harry Harrison: A Criminal Act
Thomas M. Disch: Problems of Creativeness
Gene Wolfe: How the Whip Came Back
Larry Niven: Cloak of Anarchy
Norman Spinrad: A Thing of Beauty
'Raccoona Sheldon': The Screwfly Solution
George R. R. Martin: The Way of Cross and Dragon
Bruce Sterling: Swarm
William Gibson: Burning Chrome
Hilbert Schenck: Silicon Muse
Paul J. McAuley: Karl and the Ogre
David Brin: Piecework
Select Bibliography
Sources

About the Author

Tom Shippey inherited J. R. R. Tolkien's Chair of Medieval English Language at the University of Leeds, where he taught the syllabus Tolkien had set up. He now holds the Walter J. Ong Chair of Humanities at St Louis University, Missouri, specializing in Medieval Literature, Old English Arthurian and Romance Literature, Fantasy, and Science Fiction. He has written and edited numerous books, including J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (2001), The
Road to Middle-earth (second edition, 1992), The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories (reissue, 2003), and Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative (co-edited with George Slusser, 1993).

Reviews

`Review from previous edition 'both authoritative and audacious, up-to-date and historically wise, the best yet introduction to a bewildering field''
Greg Benford
`'travels through ninety years' development from mechanical to fantastical ... first rate''
Daily Telegraph
`'ideal ... even contains much to convert the sceptics, with its survey of highlights from Wells to Kipling, via Arthur C. Clarke and J.G. Ballard, to David Brin''
Independent on Sunday
`'[Tom Shippey's] new anthology not only is useful and important, it illuminates the field with the editor's insights and selections.''
James Gunn