Oxford Book Of Science Fiction Stories

Description: 'As good an introduction to SF as you can buy.' Iain Banks The definitive collection of the twentieth-century's most characteristic genre-from H.G. Wells's prophetic vision of technological warfare to contemporary cyberspace, and up-to-the-minute myths of genetic engineering. Table of Contents: Introduction; The Land Ironclads; Finis; As Easy as ABC; The Metal Man; A Martian Odyssey; Night; Desertion; The Piper's Son; The Monster; The Second Night of Summer; Second Dawn; Crucifixus Etiam; The Tunnel Under the World; Who Can Replace a Man?; Billennium; The Ballard of Lost C'mell; Semley's Necklace; How Beautiful with Banners; A Criminal Act; Problems of Creativeness; How the Whip Came Back; Cloak of Anarchy; A Thing of Beauty; The Screwfly Solution; The Way of Cross and Dragon; Swarm; Burning Chrome; Silicon Muse; Karl and the Ogre; Piecework; Select Bibliography; Sources