Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology, The SFWA-SFRA Anthology

by Patricia S. Warrick

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060116269
• ISBN13: 9780060116262
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers
• Length: 476 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.5" x 7.9"

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A SFWA-SFWA Reading Anthology is the subtitle. It is divded into 10 sections, and each section has an introductory essay that is co-written by what the book introduction says is a combination of a teacher/critic and a science fiction writer, including names like Asimov, Pohl, Silverberg, etc. The 10 sections are supposedly Mythic Patterns that are common, or story types if you like. 1. Ambiguity 2. The Remarkable Adventure 3. Beyond Reality's Barriers: New Dimensions 4. Aliens 5. The Scientist 6. The Machine and the Robot 7. More Than Human? Androids, Cyborgs and Others 8. The City 9. Utopias and Dystopias 10. Apocalyse If you don't want to read often very academically styled essay, just skip these I would suggest, and read the stories, which are overall a decent selection, averaging 3.48. Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology : Goat Song - Poul Anderson Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology : Brightside Crossing - Alan E. Nourse Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology : Before Eden - Arthur C. Clarke Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology : The Game of Rat and Dragon - Cordwainer Smith Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology : Common Time - James Blish Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology : The Shadow of Space - Philip José Farmer Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology : Specialist - Robert Sheckley Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology : The Dance of the Changer and the Three - Terry Carr Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology : The Father-Thing - Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology : A Scientist Divides - Donald Wandrei Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology : Memorial - Theodore Sturgeon Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology : The Hole Man - Larry Niven Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology : Twilight - John W. Campbell Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology : The New Father Christmas - Brian W. Aldiss Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology : Computers Don't Argue - Gordon R. Dickson Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology : Nine Lives - Ursula K. Le Guin Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology : Masks - Damon Knight Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology : Sea Change - Thomas N. Scortia Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology : Day Million - Frederik Pohl Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology : Billenium - J. G. Ballard Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology : A Happy Day in 2381 - Robert Silverberg Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology : New York A.D. 2660 - Hugo Gernsback Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology : Coming Attraction - Fritz Leiber Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology : The Luckiest Man in Denv - C. M. Kornbluth Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology : The Game of Blood and Dust - Roger Zelazny Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology : All the Last Wars at Once - George Alec Effinger Computer go between has decent pipes. 3 out of 5 Drive hot. 3.5 out of 5 Venusian botany on the run. 3 out of 5 Another actual use for a live cat. Fight you little bast1ch. 4 out of 5 Flight observer experi