The Ascent of Wonder The Evolution of Hard SF, David G. Hartwell (Editor), Kathryn Cramer (Editor). (Paperback 0312855095)

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The Ascent of Wonder The Evolution of Hard SF
Author: David G. Hartwell (Editor), Kathryn Cramer (Editor)

Featuring more than sixty groundbreaking short stories by modern science fiction's most important and influential writers, The Ascent of Wonder offers a definitive and incisive exploration of the SF genre's visionary core. From Poe to Pohl, Wells to Wolfe, and Verne to Vinge, this hefty anthology fully charts the themes, trends, th... more »oughts, and traditions that comprise the challenging yet rich literary form known as "hard SF".

Contents:

Real Science, Imaginary Worlds (1994) • essay by Gregory Benford
On Science and Science Fiction (1993) • essay by Kathryn Cramer
Hard Science Fiction (1994) • essay by David G. Hartwell
Nine Lives (1969) / novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
Light of Other Days [Slow Glass] (1966) / shortstory by Bob Shaw
Rappaccini's Daughter [Rappaccini • 1] (1844) / novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Star (1955) / shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
Proof (1942) / shortstory by Hal Clement
"It's Great to Be Back!" [Future History] (1947) / shortstory by Robert A. Heinlein
Procreation (1983) / shortstory by Gene Wolfe
Mimsy Were the Borogoves (1943) / novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
Davey Jones' Ambassador (1935) / novelette by Raymond Z. Gallun
The Life and Times of Multivac [Multivac] (1975) / shortstory by Isaac Asimov
The Singing Diamond (1979) / shortstory by Robert L. Forward
Down & Out on Ellfive Prime (1979) / novelette by Dean Ing
Send Me a Kiss by Wire (1985) / shortstory by Hilbert Schenck
The Xi Effect (1950) / shortstory by R. S. Richardson [as by Philip Latham]
A Descent Into the Maelstrom (1841) / shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe
Exposures (1981) / shortstory by Gregory Benford
The Planners (1968) / shortstory by Kate Wilhelm
Beep (1954) / novelette by James Blish
Drode's Equations (1981) / novelette by Richard Grant
The Weather Man (1962) / novella by Theodore L. Thomas
Transit of Earth (1971) / shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
Prima Belladonna [Vermilion Sands] (1956) / shortstory by J. G. Ballard
To Bring in the Steel (1978) / novelette by Donald Kingsbury
Gomez (1954) / novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
Waterclap (1970) / novelette by Isaac Asimov
Weyr Search [Dragonriders of Pern] (1967) / novella by Anne McCaffrey
Message Found in a Copy of Flatland (1983) / shortstory by Rudy Rucker
The Cold Equations (1954) / novelette by Tom Godwin
The Land Ironclads (1903) / novelette by H. G. Wells
The Hole Man (1974) / shortstory by Larry Niven
Atomic Power (1934) / shortstory by John W. Campbell Jr. [as by Don A. Stuart]
Stop Evolution in Its Tracks! (1988) / shortstory by John Sladek
The Hungry Guinea Pig (1930) / shortstory by Miles J. Breuer M.D.
The Very Slow Time Machine (1978) / novelette by Ian Watson
The Beautiful and the Sublime (1986) / novelette by Bruce Sterling
"The Author of the Acacia Seeds" and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics (1974) / shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
Heat of Fusion (1984) / shortstory by John M. Ford
Dolphin's Way (1964) / shortstory by Gordon R. Dickson
All the Hues of Hell (1987) / shortstory by Gene Wolfe
Occam's Scalpel (1971) / novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
giANTS (1979) / shortstory by Edward Bryant
Time Fuze (1954) / shortstory by Randall Garrett
Desertion [City] (1944) / shortstory by Clifford D. Simak
Kyrie (1968) / shortstory by Poul Anderson
The Person from Porlock (1947) / shortstory by Raymond F. Jones
Day Million (1966) / shortstory by Frederik Pohl
The Cage of Sand (1962) / novelette by J. G. Ballard
The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats (1976) / novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
In the Year 2889 (1889) / shortstory by Jules Verne
Surface Tension [Pantropy] (1952) / novelette by James Blish
No, No, Not Rogov! [The Instrumentality of Mankind] (1959) / shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
In a Petri Dish Upstairs (1978) / novelette by George Turner
With the Night Mail (1905) / novelette by Rudyard Kipling
The Longest Science-Fiction Story Ever Told (1966) / shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
The Pi Man (1959) / shortstory by Alfred Bester
Relativistic Effects (1982) / novelette by Gregory Benford
Making Light (1981) / shortstory by James P. Hogan
The Last Question [Multivac] (1956) / shortstory by Isaac Asimov
The Indefatigable Frog (1953) / shortstory by Philip K. Dick
Chromatic Aberration (1984) / novelette by John M. Ford
The Snowball Effect (1952) / shortstory by Katherine MacLean
The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck (1978) / novelette by Hilbert Schenck
Tangents (1986) / shortstory by Greg Bear
Johnny Mnemonic (1981) / shortstory by William Gibson
What Continues, What Fails ... (1991) / novelette by David Brin
Mammy Morgan Played the Organ, Her Daddy Beat the Drum (1990) / novella by Michael F. Flynn
Bookworm, Run! (1966) / novelette by Vernor Vinge
Appendix: Another Path Through the Book (The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF) (1994) • essay by Kathryn Cramer

ISBN-13: 9780312855093
ISBN-10: 0312855095
Publication Date: 8/15/1997
Pages: 992
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Publisher: Orb Books
Book Type: Paperback
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Mary T. (maryt) reviewed The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF on 12/28/2005 + 35 more book reviews

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Large collection of short "scientific" fiction stories. Great winter reading.

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