A Science Fiction Omnibus Author:Brian W. Aldiss (Editor) This new edition of Brian Aldiss' classic anthology brings together a diverse selection of science fiction spanning over sixty years, from Isaac Asimov's "Nightfall", first published in 1941, to the 2006 story "Friends in Need" by Eliza Blair. Including authors such as Clifford Simak, Harry Harrison, Bruce Sterling, A... more ». E. Van Vogt and Brian Aldiss himself, these stories portray struggles against machines, epic journeys, genetic experiments, time travellers and alien races. From stories set on Earth, to uncanny far distant worlds and ancient burnt-out suns, the one constant is humanity itself, compelled by an often fatal curiosity to explore the boundless frontiers of time, space and probability.
Contents:
Introduction (A Science Fiction Omnibus) • essay by Brian W. Aldiss
Sole Solution (1956) / Eric Frank Russell
Lot [David Jimmon] (1953) / Ward Moore
Skirmish (1950) / Clifford D. Simak
And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side (1972) / James Tiptree, Jr.
Poor Little Warrior! (1959) / Brian W. Aldiss
Grandpa (1955) / James H. Schmitz
Nightfall (1941) / Isaac Asimov
The Snowball Effect (1952) / Katherine MacLean
Swarm [Shaper/Mechanist] (1982) / Bruce Sterling
Blood Music (1983) / Greg Bear
Answer (1954) / Fredric Brown
The Liberation of Earth (1953) / William Tenn
An Alien Agony (1962) / Harry Harrison (variant of The Streets of Ashkelon)
Track 12 (1958) / J. G. Ballard
Sexual Dimorphism (1999) / Kim Stanley Robinson
The Tunnel Under the World (1955) / Frederik Pohl
Friends in Need / Eliza Blair
The Store of the Worlds (1959) / Robert Sheckley
Jokester (1956) / Isaac Asimov
The Short-Short Story of Mankind (1958) / John Steinbeck