Description: Chronological Contents Alternative Thematic Contents A Brief Introduction to Science Fiction and Its HistoryA Selective Guide to Science Fiction Research Part One: Stories 1. Alien Encounters Stanley G. Weinbaum, A Martian Odyssey (1934)Frederic Brown, Arena (1944)Ray Bradbury, Mars Is Heaven! (1948)Sonya Dorman, When I Was Miss Dow (1966)Ursula K. Le Guin, Vaster Than Empires and More Slow (1971)Greg Egan, Wang's Carpets (1995) Cultural Contexts: Carl Gustav Jung, The Shadow (1951) Frantz Fanon, The Fact of Blackness (1952) 2. Artificial Life Isaac Asimov, Liar! (1941)Philip K. Dick, Second Variety (1953)Kate Wilhelm, Baby, You Were Great (1966)James Tiptree, Jr., The Girl Who Was Plugged In (1973)William Gibson, Burning Chrome (1985)Ken Liu, The Algorithms for Love (2004) Cultural Contexts: Jean Baudrillard, The Precession of the Simulacra (1981) Donna J. Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (1985; 1991) 3. Time C.L. Moore, Vintage Season (1946)Robert A. Heinlein, "All You Zombies--" (1959)Robert Silverberg, When We Went to See the End of the World (1972)Kim Stanley Robinson, The Lucky Strike (1984)Connie Willis, At the Rialto (1989)Ted Chiang, Story of Your Life (1998) Cultural Contexts: John-Paul Sartre, From Being and Nothingness (1943) Michio Kaku, To Build a Time Machine (1994) 4. Utopias and Dystopias Damon Knight, Country of the Kind (1955) Harlan Ellison, "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman (1965)Joanna Russ, When It Changed (1972)John Varley, The Persistence of Vision (1978) Mike Resnick, Kirinyaga (1988)Nalo Hopkinson, Something to Hitch Meat to (2001) Cultural Contexts: William H. Whyte, Jr. From The Organization Man (1956) Fredric Jameson, Progress versus Utopia; or Can We Imagine the Future? (1982) 5. Disasters and Apocalypses Arthur C. Clarke, The Nine Billion Names of God (1953)J.G. Ballard, Terminal Beach (1964)Stanislaus Lem, How the World Was Saved (1967)Sakyo Komatsu, Take Your Choice (1967)C.J. Cherryh, Cassandra (1978) Ian McDonald, Recording Angel (1996) Cultural Contexts: Mircea Eliade, from The Myth of the Eternal Return (1949; 1954) Susan Sontag, The Imagination of Disaster (1965) 6. Evolutions John W. Campbell, Jr., Twilight (1934)Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon (1959)Roger Zelazny, For a Breath I Tarry (1966)Samuel R. Delany, Driftglass (1967)Greg Bear, Blood Music (1983)Terry Bisson, Bears Discover Fire (1990) Cultural Contexts: Stephen Jay Gould, Nonmoral Nature (1982) Marvin Minsky, Will Robots Inherit the Earth? (1994) AcknowledgmentsIndex

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