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Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century

2001 anthology edited by Orson Scott Card


2001 anthology edited by Orson Scott Card

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nameMasterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century
imageOSCmasterpieces.jpg
editorOrson Scott Card
countryUnited States
languageEnglish
genreScience fiction
publisherAce Books
pub_date2001
media_typePrint (Hardcover and paperback)
pages432
isbn0-441-00864-X
dewey813/.087620805 21
congressPS648.S3 M38 2001
oclc47243968

Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century (2001) is a science fiction anthology edited by American writer Orson Scott Card. It contains twenty-six stories by different writers.

Contents

The stories in this book are:

The Golden Age

  • "Call me Joe" by Poul Anderson (1957)
  • "All You Zombies" by Robert A. Heinlein (1958)
  • "Tunesmith" by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (1957)
  • "A Saucer of Loneliness" by Theodore Sturgeon (1953)
  • "Robot Dreams" by Isaac Asimov (1986)
  • "Devolution" by Edmond Hamilton (1936)
  • "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke (1953)
  • "A Work of Art" by James Blish (1956)
  • "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed" by Ray Bradbury (1949)

The New Wave

  • "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" by Harlan Ellison (1965)
  • "Eurema's Dam" by R.A. Lafferty (1972)
  • "Passengers" by Robert Silverberg (1968)
  • "The Tunnel under the World" by Frederik Pohl (1955)
  • "Who Can Replace a Man?" by Brian W. Aldiss (1958)
  • "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1973)
  • "Inconstant Moon" by Larry Niven (1973)

The Media Generation

  • "Sandkings" by George R.R. Martin (1979)
  • "The Road Not Taken" by Harry Turtledove (1985)
  • "Dogfight" by William Gibson and Michael Swanwick (1985)
  • "Face Value" by Karen Joy Fowler (1986)
  • "Pots" by C. J. Cherryh (1985)
  • "Snow" by John Crowley (1985)
  • "Rat" by James Patrick Kelly (1986)
  • "Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bisson (1990)
  • "A Clean Escape" by John Kessel (1986)
  • Tourists" by Lisa Goldstein (1985)
  • "One" by George Alec Effinger (1995)
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