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The Norton book of science fiction : North American science fiction, 1960-1990

Title
The Norton book of science fiction : North American science fiction, 1960-1990 / edited by Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery ; Karen Joy Fowler, consultant.
ISBN
0393035468
9780393035469
0393972410
9780393972412
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, [1993]
Copyright Notice Date
©1993
Physical Description
869 pages ; 24 cm
Local Notes
BEIN 2018 8330: Number line on title page verso indicates 1st printing: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0. Dust jacket. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.
BEIN 2018 8331: Number line on title page verso indicates 2nd printing: 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0. Dust jacket. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.
Notes
Includes story by Samuel R. Delany, "High Weir," (pages 183-200).
Contains 67 science fiction stories published since 1960.
Summary
The very best North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990.
Variant and related titles
Book of science fiction
Science fiction
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Handler / Damon Knight
Alpha Ralpha Boulevard / Cordwainer Smith
Tandy's story / Theodore Sturgeon
2064, or thereabouts / David R. Bunch
Balanced ecology / James H. Schmitz
The house the Blakeneys built / Avram Davidson
Over the river and through the woods / Clifford D. Simak
How beautiful with banners / James Blish
Nine hundred grandmothers / R.A. Lafferty
When I was Miss Dow / Sonya Dorman Hess
Comes now the power / Roger Zelazny
Day million / Frederik Pohl
Winter flies / Fritz Leiber
High Weir / Samuel R. Delany
Kyrie / Poul Anderson
For the sake of Grace / Suzette Haden Elgin
As simple as that / Zenna Henderson
Good news from the Vatican / Robert Silverberg
Gather blue roses / Pamela Sargent
Women men don't see / James Tiptree, Jr
Feather tigers / Gene Wolfe
The mountains of sunset, the mountains of dawn / Vonda N. McIntyre
The private war of Private Jacob / Joe Haldeman
The warlord of Saturn's moons / Eleanor Arnason
Making it all the way into the future on Gaxton Falls of the red planet / Barry N. Malzberg
The new Atlantis / Ursula K. LeGuin
A few things I know about Whileaway / Joanna Russ
Strange wine / Harlan Ellison
Lollipop and the tar baby / John Varley
Night-rise / Katherine MacLean
Frozen journey / Philip K. Dick
Precession / Edward Bryant
Elbow room / Marion Zimmer Bradley
Tauf Aleph / Phyllis Gotlieb
Exposures / Gregory Benford
The Gernsback continuum / William Gibson
The start of the end of the world / Carol Emshwiller
Schrödinger's plague / Greg Bear
" ... the world, as we know 't" / Howard Waldrop
The byrds / Michael G. Coney
Speech sounds / Octavia Butler
Distant signals / Andrew Weiner
The lucky strike / Kim Stanley Robinson
The life of anybody / Robert Sheckley
Interlocking pieces / Molly Gloss
The war at home / Lewis Shiner
The lake was full of artificial things / Karen Joy Fowler
Snow / John Crowley
After the days of dead-eye 'Dee / Pat Cadigan
The Bob Dylan Tambourine Software & Satori Support Services Consortium, Ltd. / Michael Bishop
His vegetable wife / Pat Murphy
The brains of rats / Michael Blumlein
Out of all them bright stars / Nancy Kress
Rat / James Patrick Kelly
America / Orson Scott Card
Schwarzschild radius / Connie Willis
Stable strategies for middle management / Eileen Gunn
Kirinyaga / Mike Resnick
A midwinter's tale / Michael Swanwick
(Learning about) machine sex / Candas Jane Dorsey
We see things differently / Bruce Sterling
Half-life / Paul Preuss
Homelanding / Margaret Atwood
And the angels sing / Kate Wilhelm
Aunt Parnetta's electric blisters / Diane Glancy
Midnight news / Lisa Goldstein
Invaders / John Kessel.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Novellas.
Science fiction.
Short stories.
Short stories.
Novellas.
Science fiction.
Also listed under
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018, editor
Attebery, Brian, 1951- editor
Fowler, Karen Joy, editor
Container of (work): Knight, Damon, 1922-2002. Handler
Container of (work): Smith, Cordwainer, 1913-1966. Alpha Ralpha Boulevard
Container of (work): Sturgeon, Theodore. Tandy's story
Container of (work): Bunch, David R. 2064, or thereabouts
Container of (work): Schmitz, James H., 1911-1981. Balanced ecology
Container of (work): Davidson, Avram. House the Blakeneys built
Container of (work): Simak, Clifford D., 1904-1988. Over the river and through the woods
Container of (work): Blish, James. How beautiful with banners
Container of (work): Lafferty, R. A. Nine hundred grandmothers (Short story)
Container of (work): Dorman, Sonya, 1924-2005. When I was Miss Dow
Container of (work): Zelazny, Roger. Comes now the power
Container of (work): Pohl, Frederik. Day million
Container of (work): Leiber, Fritz, 1910-1992. Winter flies
Container of (work): Delany, Samuel R.. High Weir
Container of (work): Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001. Kyrie
Container of (work): Elgin, Suzette Haden. For the sake of Grace
Container of (work): Henderson, Zenna. As simple as that
Container of (work): Silverberg, Robert. Good news from the Vatican
Container of (work): Sargent, Pamela. Gather blue roses
Container of (work): Tiptree, James, Jr., 1915-1987. Women men don't see
Container of (work): Wolfe, Gene. Feather tigers
Container of (work): McIntyre, Vonda N. Mountains of sunset, the mountains of dawn
Container of (work): Haldeman, Joe W. Private war of Private Jacob
Container of (work): Arnason, Eleanor. Warlord of Saturn's moons
Container of (work): Malzberg, Barry N. Making it all the way into the future on Gaxton Falls of the Red Planet
Container of (work): Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018. New Atlantis
Container of (work): Russ, Joanna, 1937-2011. Few things I know about Whileaway
Container of (work): Ellison, Harlan. Strange wine
Container of (work): Varley, John, 1947 August 9- Lollipop and the tar baby
Container of (work): MacLean, Katherine. Night-rise
Container of (work): Dick, Philip K. Frozen journey
Container of (work): Bryant, Edward, 1945-2017. Precession
Container of (work): Bradley, Marion Zimmer. Elbow room
Container of (work): Gotlieb, Phyllis, 1926-2009. Tauf Aleph
Container of (work): Benford, Gregory, 1941- Exposures
Container of (work): Gibson, William, 1948- Gernsbeck continuum
Container of (work): Emshwiller, Carol. Start and end of the world
Container of (work): Bear, Greg, 1951- Schrödiger's plague
Container of (work): Waldrop, Howard. World, as we know't
Container of (work): Coney, Michael. Byrds
Container of (work): Butler, Octavia E. Speech sounds
Container of (work): Weiner, Andrew, 1949-2019. Distant signals
Container of (work): Robinson, Kim Stanley. Lucky strike
Container of (work): Sheckley, Robert, 1928-2005. Life of anybody
Container of (work): Gloss, Molly. Interlocking pieces
Container of (work): Shiner, Lewis. War at home
Container of (work): Fowler, Karen Joy. Lake was full of artificial things
Container of (work): Crowley, John, 1942- Snow
Container of (work): Cadigan, Pat, 1953- After the days of Dead-Eye 'Dee
Container of (work): Bishop, Michael, 1945- Bob Dylan Tambourine Software & Satori Support Services Consortium, Ltd
Container of (work): Murphy, Pat, 1955- His vegetable wife
Container of (work): Blumlein, Michael. Brains of rats
Container of (work): Kress, Nancy. Out of all them bright stars
Container of (work): Kelly, James P. (James Patrick), 1951- Rat
Container of (work): Card, Orson Scott. America
Container of (work): Willis, Connie. Schwarzschild radius
Container of (work): Gunn, Eileen, 1945- Stable strategies for middle management
Container of (work): Resnick, Michael D. Kirinyaga
Container of (work): Swanwick, Michael. Midwinter's tale
Container of (work): Dorsey, Candas Jane. (Learning about) machine sex
Container of (work): Sterling, Bruce. We see things differently
Container of (work): Preuss, Paul, 1942- Half-life
Container of (work): Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Homelanding
Container of (work): Wilhelm, Kate. And the angels sing
Container of (work): Glancy, Diane. Aunt Parnetta's electric blisters
Container of (work): Goldstein, Lisa. Midnight news
Container of (work): Kessel, John. Invaders
W.W. Norton & Company, publisher
Samuel R. Delany Library (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library). Works
United States New York (State) New York
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