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The book that defines state-of-the-art science fiction.

Table of Contents:

• Preface - essay by Jerry Pournelle
• 1984, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Other SF Novels, Signs, and Portents - essay by Algis Budrys
• New Rose Hotel - (1984) - shortstory by William Gibson
• Me and My Shadow - (1984) - shortstory by Mike Resnick
• Hard Science in the Real World - essay by Gregory Benford
• Me/Days - (1984) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
• Silicon Muse - (1984) - shortstory by Hilbert Schenck
• The Dominus Demonstration - (1984) - novelette by Charles Sheffield
• The Crystal Spheres - (1984) - shortstory by David Brin
• The Strange Journey: 1984 - essay by James E. Gunn
• A Day in the Life of a Classics Professor - (1984) - shortstory by Stan Dryer
• The Picture Man - (1984) - shortstory by John Dalmas
• The Weigher - (1984) - novella by Eric Vinicoff and Marcia Martin
• Demon Lover - (1984) - novelette by M. Sargent Mackay
• Tourist Trade - (1984) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• 1984: The Fifty-Candle Blowout - essay by Michael Glyer

When readers first encounter science fiction, they find adventures on other planets and in future worlds, explorations of future technology and its implications, and extrapolations of social trends and warnings of where they may lead--but they also encounter concepts heretofore undreamed of, and the impact on the readers' thinking does nothing less than turn their world upside down.

Now, David Drake, Jim Baen and Eric Flint gather together some of the greatest science fiction ever written in one volume, with each story chosen for a startling breakthrough concept which left readers stunned and changed the course of science fiction.

In the Golden Age of science fiction, the science fiction magazines weren't given titles such as Astounding, Amazing, Startling, etc., for nothing! Pick up this generous serving of the very best of science fiction and prepared to be astounded, amazed, startled--and entertained.

Table of Contents:

• Preface - essay by Eric Flint
• Rescue Party - (1946) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Menace from Earth - (1957) - shortfiction by Robert A. Heinlein
• Code Three - (1963) - novella by Rick Raphael
• Hunting Problem - (1955) - shortstory by Robert Sheckley
• Black Destroyer - (1939) - novelette by A. E. van Vogt
• A Pail of Air - (1951) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• Thy Rocks and Rills - (1953) - novelette by Robert E. Gilbert
• A Gun for Dinosaur - (1956) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• Goblin Night - (1965) - novelette by James H. Schmitz
• The Only Thing We Learn - (1949) - shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
• Trigger Tide - (1950) - shortstory by Wyman Guin
• The Aliens - (1959) - novelette by Murray Leinster
• All the Way Back - (1952) - shortstory by Michael Shaara
• The Last Command - (1967) - shortstory by Keith Laumer
• Who Goes There? - (1938) - novella by John W. Campbell, Jr.
• Quietus - (1940) - shortstory by Ross Rocklynne
• Answer - (1954) - shortstory by Fredric Brown
• The Last Question - (1956) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• The Cold Equations - (1954) - novelette by Tom Godwin
• Shambleau - (1933) - novelette by C. L. Moore
• Turning Point - (1963) - shortstory by Poul Anderson
• Heavy Planet - (1939) - shortstory by Milton A. Rothman
• Omnilingual - (1957) - novelette by H. Beam Piper
• The Gentle Earth - (1957) - novella by Christopher Anvil
• Environment - (1944) - shortstory by Chester S. Geier
• Liane the Wayfarer - (1950) - shortstory by Jack Vance
• Spawn - (1939) - novelette by P. Schuyler Miller
• St. Dragon and the George - (1957) - novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
• Thunder and Roses - (1947) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon

Featuring a mix of classic science fiction reprints and original stories all filled with: REALLY BIG MONSTERS!

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Size Matters: Introduction - essay by Hank Davis
• 9 - The Shining Ones - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 29 - All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past - short story by Howard Waldrop
• 41 - The Monster-God of Mamurth - short story by Edmond Hamilton
• 59 - Talent - short story by Robert Bloch
• 75 - The End of the Hunt - short story by David Drake
• 87 - Ooze - short story by Anthony M. Rud
• 113 - The Valley of the Worm - novelette by Robert E. Howard
• 137 - Whoever Fights Monsters - novelette by Wen Spencer
• 165 - Deviation from a Theme - short story by Steven Utley
• 175 - The Eggs from Lake Tanganyika - short story by Curt Siodmak
• 185 - The Dunwich Horror - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 233 - From Out the Fire - short story by Sarah A. Hoyt
• 251 - Beauty and the Beast - short story by Henry Kuttner
• 271 - The Island of the Ud - novelette by William Hope Hodgson
• 297 - A Single Samurai - short story by Steve Diamond
• 311 - Planet of Dread - novelette by Murray Leinster
• 367 - An Epistle to the Thessalonians - short story by Philip Wylie
• 377 - The Monster of Lake LaMetrie - short story by Wardon Allan Curtis
• 395 - The Giant Cat of Sumatra - short story by Hank Davis
• 417 - Greenface - novelette by James H. Schmitz
• 451 - Tokyo Raider - novelette by Larry Correia

Contents:

• 9 - Midnight by the Morphy Watch - (1974) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• 35 - Plaything - (1974) - short story by Larry Niven
• 43 - A Little Night Flying - (1974) - short story by Bob Shaw (variant of Dark Icarus)
• 61 - Half-Baked Publisher's Delight - (1974) - short story by Isaac Asimov and Jeffrey S. Hudson
• 69 - Mephisto and the Ion Explorer - (1974) - novelette by Colin Kapp
• 111 - Following Yonder Star - [(R)evolution] - (1974) - essay by Richard C. Hoagland
• 131 - Gut in Peril - (1974) - short story by Arsen Darnay
• 141 - Time Deer - (1974) - short story by Craig Strete
• 149 - The Alien Viewpoint (If, September-October 1974) - [The Alien Viewpoint (If)] - (1974) - essay by Richard E. Geis
• 163 - The Descent of Man - (1974) - short story by J. A. Lawrence
• 177 - Angel Fix - (1974) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr. [as by Raccoona Sheldon]
• 211 - Reading Room (If, November-December 1974) - [Reading Room] - (1974) - essay by Lester del Rey