Ascent of wonder : the evolution of hard SF

By:

Ed. Hartwell, David G

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Tom Doherty Associates 1994Description: 990 p. 23 cm ; HardISBN:

031285062X

Subject(s):

Science fiction, American Literature and science English-speaking countries

DDC classification:

813.0876209 ASC

Contents:

Real science, imaginary worlds / Gregory Benford -- On science and science fiction / Kathryn Cramer -- Hard science fiction / David G. Hartwell -- Nine lives / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Light of other days / Bob Shaw -- Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The star / Arthur C. Clarke -- Proof / Hal Clement -- It's great to be back / Robert A. Heinlein -- Procreation / Gene Wolfe -- Mimsy were the borogoves / Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore -- Davy Jones' Ambassador / Raymond Z. Gallun -- The life and times of Multivac / Isaac Asimov -- The singing diamond / Robert L. Forward -- Down & out on Ellfive Prime / Dean Ing -- Send me a kiss by wire / Hilbert Schenck -- The Xi effect / Philip Latham -- A descent into the maelström / Edgar Allan Poe -- Exposures / Gregory Benford -- The planners / Kate Wilhelm -- Beep / James Blish -- Drode's Equations / Richard Grant -- The weather man / Theodore L. Thomas -- Transit of Earth / Arthur C. Clarke -- Prima Belladonna / J.G. Ballard -- To bring in the steel / Donald M. Kingsbury -- Gomez / C.M. Kornbluth -- Waterclap / Isaac Asimov -- Weyr search / Anne McCaffrey -- Message found in a copy of Flatland / Rudy Rucker -- The cold equations / Tom Godwin -- The land ironclads / H.G. Wells -- The hole man / Larry Niven -- Atomic power / John W. Campbell -- Stop evolution in its tracks! / John T. Sladek -- The hungry guinea pig / Miles J. Breuer -- The very slow time machine / Ian Watson -- The beautiful and the sublime / Bruce Sterling -- The author of the Acacia Seeds / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Heat of fusion / John M. Ford -- Dophin's way / Gordon R. Dickson -- All the hues of hell / Gene Wolfe -- Occam's scalpel / Theodore Sturgeon -- GiANTS / Edward Bryant -- Time fuze / Randall Garrett -- Desertion / Clifford D. Simak -- Kyrie / Poul Anderson -- The person from Porlock / Raymond F. Jones -- Day million / Frederik Pohl -- Cage of sand / J.G. Ballard -- The psychologist who wouldn't do awful things to rats / James Tiptree, Jr. -- In the year 2889 / Jules Verne -- Surface tension / James Blish -- No, No, not Rogov! / Cordwainer Smith -- In a petri dish upstairs / George Turner -- With the night mail / Rudyard Kipling -- The longest science fiction story every told / Arthur C. Clarke -- The Pi man / Alfred Bester -- Relativistic effects / Gregory Benford -- Making light / James P. Hogan -- The last question / Isaac Asimov -- The indefatigable frog / Philip K. Dick -- Chromatic aberration / John M. Ford -- The snowball effect / Katherine MacLean -- The morphology of the Kirkham Wreck / Hilbert Schenck -- Tangents / Greg Bear -- Johnny Mnemonic / William Gibson -- What continues, what fails-- / David Brin -- Mammy Morgan played the organ: her daddy beat the drum / Michael F. Flynn -- Bookworm, Run! / Vernor Vinge.

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Gratis

Real science, imaginary worlds / Gregory Benford --
On science and science fiction / Kathryn Cramer --
Hard science fiction / David G. Hartwell --
Nine lives / Ursula K. Le Guin --
Light of other days / Bob Shaw --
Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The star / Arthur C. Clarke --
Proof / Hal Clement --
It's great to be back / Robert A. Heinlein --
Procreation / Gene Wolfe --
Mimsy were the borogoves / Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore --
Davy Jones' Ambassador / Raymond Z. Gallun --
The life and times of Multivac / Isaac Asimov --
The singing diamond / Robert L. Forward --
Down & out on Ellfive Prime / Dean Ing --
Send me a kiss by wire / Hilbert Schenck --
The Xi effect / Philip Latham --
A descent into the maelström / Edgar Allan Poe --
Exposures / Gregory Benford --
The planners / Kate Wilhelm --
Beep / James Blish --
Drode's Equations / Richard Grant --
The weather man / Theodore L. Thomas --
Transit of Earth / Arthur C. Clarke --
Prima Belladonna / J.G. Ballard --
To bring in the steel / Donald M. Kingsbury --
Gomez / C.M. Kornbluth --
Waterclap / Isaac Asimov --
Weyr search / Anne McCaffrey --
Message found in a copy of Flatland / Rudy Rucker --
The cold equations / Tom Godwin --
The land ironclads / H.G. Wells --
The hole man / Larry Niven --
Atomic power / John W. Campbell --
Stop evolution in its tracks! / John T. Sladek --
The hungry guinea pig / Miles J. Breuer --
The very slow time machine / Ian Watson --
The beautiful and the sublime / Bruce Sterling --
The author of the Acacia Seeds / Ursula K. Le Guin --
Heat of fusion / John M. Ford --
Dophin's way / Gordon R. Dickson --
All the hues of hell / Gene Wolfe --
Occam's scalpel / Theodore Sturgeon --
GiANTS / Edward Bryant --
Time fuze / Randall Garrett --
Desertion / Clifford D. Simak --
Kyrie / Poul Anderson --
The person from Porlock / Raymond F. Jones --
Day million / Frederik Pohl --
Cage of sand / J.G. Ballard --
The psychologist who wouldn't do awful things to rats / James Tiptree, Jr. --
In the year 2889 / Jules Verne --
Surface tension / James Blish --
No, No, not Rogov! / Cordwainer Smith --
In a petri dish upstairs / George Turner --
With the night mail / Rudyard Kipling --
The longest science fiction story every told / Arthur C. Clarke --
The Pi man / Alfred Bester --
Relativistic effects / Gregory Benford --
Making light / James P. Hogan --
The last question / Isaac Asimov --
The indefatigable frog / Philip K. Dick --
Chromatic aberration / John M. Ford --
The snowball effect / Katherine MacLean --
The morphology of the Kirkham Wreck / Hilbert Schenck --
Tangents / Greg Bear --
Johnny Mnemonic / William Gibson --
What continues, what fails--
/ David Brin --
Mammy Morgan played the organ: her daddy beat the drum / Michael F. Flynn --
Bookworm, Run! / Vernor Vinge.

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