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Decades of Science Fiction » (1st Edition)
Authors: McGraw-Hill
ISBN-13: 9780844259949, ISBN-10: 0844259942
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Date Published: January 1998
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: McGraw-Hill
Book Synopsis
Decades of Science Fiction is an anthology of 27 short stories that illustrate the development and popularity of the genre. Through its collection of well-chosen, classic stories, it allows students to trace the evolution of science fiction from the days of H.G Wells and Verne through the present. The text contains important historical and contextual information and demonstrates how science fiction, the adaptable genre, relates to the important issues of our lives.
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Ch. 1 | Through World War I | 1 |
| Master Zacharius | 10 | |
| The Crystal Egg | 41 | |
| Ch. 2 | The Twenties | 57 |
| The Disintegration Machine | 64 | |
| The Metal Man | 77 | |
| Ch. 3 | The Thirties | 89 |
| The Mad Moon | 97 | |
| Misfit | 118 | |
| Ch. 4 | The Forties | 139 |
| Robbie | 148 | |
| Desertion | 167 | |
| That Only a Mother | 179 | |
| Ch. 5 | The Fifties | 189 |
| The Exiles | 200 | |
| Scanners Live in Vain | 213 | |
| Death between the Stars | 245 | |
| Ch. 6 | The Sixties | 261 |
| The Ship Who Sang | 271 | |
| "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman | 289 | |
| The Electric Ant | 301 | |
| Ch. 7 | The Seventies | 319 |
| The Sliced-Crosswise Only-on-Tuesday World | 331 | |
| Cloak of Anarchy | 346 | |
| The Hunting | 365 | |
| The Thaw | 377 | |
| Ch. 8 | The Eighties | 397 |
| Valhalla | 408 | |
| Skin Deep | 417 | |
| For I Have Touched the Sky | 432 | |
| At the Rialto | 456 | |
| Ch. 9 | The Nineties | 479 |
| The Abduction of Bunny Steiner, or a Shameless Lie | 488 | |
| Steelcollar Worker | 508 | |
| The Hammer of God | 524 | |
| Clean Up Your Room! | 537 | |
| Selected Bibliography | 553 | |
| Acknowledgments | 555 | |
| Index of Authors and Titles | 557 |
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