"The best stories are timeless. Long years from now the stories here may still touch someone, cause that person to blink, and put the book down for a second, and stare off through the hallow air, and shirver in wonder."
Contents
1 Preface (The Legend Book of Science Fiction) (1991) essay by Gardner Dozois
7 The Country of the Kind (1956) shortstory by Damon Knight
22 Aristotle and the Gun (1958) novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
59 The Other Celia (1957) shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
78 Casey Agonistes (1958) shortstory by Richard McKenna [as by Richard M. McKenna ]
90 Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons [The Instrumentality of Mankind] (1961) novelette by Cordwainer Smith
116 The Moon Moth (1961) novelette by Jack Vance
157 The Golden Horn [Tales of a Darkening World] (1962) novelette by Edgar Pangborn
196 The Lady Margaret [Pavane] (1966) novelette by Keith Roberts (aka The Lady Anne)
238 This Moment of the Storm (1966) novelette by Roger Zelazny
273 Narrow Valley (1966) shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
287 Driftglass (1967) shortstory by Samuel R. Delany
309 The Worm That Flies (1968) shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
331 The Fifth Head of Cerberus (1972) novella by Gene Wolfe
397 Nobody's Home (1972) shortstory by Joanna Russ
416 Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (1974) novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
437 The Barrow (1976) shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
447 Particle Theory (1977) shortstory by Edward Bryant
472 The Ugly Chickens (1980) novelette by Howard Waldrop
499 Going Under (1981) novelette by Jack Dann [as by Jack M. Dann ]
521 Salvador (1984) shortstory by Lucius Shepard
543 Pretty Boy Crossover (1986) shortstory by Pat Cadigan
557 The Pure Product (1986) novelette by John Kessel
580 The Winter Market (1985) novelette by William Gibson
603 Chance (1986) novelette by Connie Willis
637 The Edge of the World (1989) shortstory by Michael Swanwick
654 Dori Bangs (1989) shortstory by Bruce Sterling
671 Afterword (The Legend Book of Science Fiction) (1991) essay by Gardner Dozois

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Ursula K Le Guin; R. A Lafferty; Connie Willis; Theodore Sturgeon

edited by Gardner Dozois

Gardner R. Dozois

Tom Doherty Associates, LLC

Macmillan Digital

Wadsworth

United States, United States of America

First pbk. edition, New York, 1993

1st U.S. ed, New York, 1992

Reprint, FR, 1993

New York, 2013

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<p><P>Brian Aldiss William Gibson R.A. Lafferty Ursula K. Le Guin Lucius Shepard Bruce Sterling Theodore Sturgeon Howard Waldrop Connie Willis Gene Wolfe Roger Zelazny<P>"The best stories are timeless. Long years from now the stories here may still touch someone, cause that person to blink, and put the book down for a second, and stare off through the hallow air, and shirver in wonder."</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>This new collection from the editor of The Year's Best Science Fiction and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine generally lives up to its billing. Deliberately avoiding oft-anthologized stories, Dozois serves up a wide variety of SF from 1955 to 1989, offered here chronologically and ranging from the disturbing settings characteristic of Damon Knight, Richard McKenna and Ursula K. Le Guin, to touching character studies from Samuel R. Delaney, Roger Zelazny and Connie Willis, to the complex futures of James Tiptree Jr., Pat Cadigan and William Gibson. A highlight is Jack Vance's brilliant tale of alien anthropology, ``The Moon Moth.'' The collection's weak link is Keith Roberts's ``The Lady Margaret,'' which moves too slowly toward an uninteresting climax. Readers might enjoy Bruce Sterling's ``Dori Bangs,'' but only if they're familiar with rock critic Lester Bangs and with cartoonist Dori Seda. Dozois's introductions tend toward hyperbole (many contributors are labeled ``giants'' or ``masters''). Also included are tales by L. Sprague de Camp, Cordwainer Smith, Theodore Sturgeon, R. A. Lafferty, Gene Wolfe, Joanna Russ and eight others. (Feb.)</p>

Science Fiction routinely explores the future, but it takes the hand of a master to capture the farthest reaches of time -- futures almost unimaginably distant. The Furthest Horizon collects 17 of the most inventive and audacious visions of the future by many acclaimed writers, including:Brian Aldiss -- Poul Anderson -- Avram Davidson -- Joe Haldeman -- Alexander Jablokov -- Paul J. McAuley -- Ian McDonald -- Michael Moorcock -- Frederik Pohl -- Robert Reed -- Keith Roberts -- Robert Silverberg -- Cordwainer Smith -- James Tiptree, Jr. -- Jack Vance -- Walter Jon Williams -- Gene Wolfe

Brian Aldiss, William Gibson, R.A. Lafferty, Ursula K. Le Guin, Lucius Shepard, Bruce Sterling, Theodore Sturgeon, Howard Waldrop, Connie Willis, Gene Wolfe and Roger Zelazny. "The best stories are timeless. Long years from now the stories here may still touch someone, cause that person to blink, and put the book down for a second, and stare off through the hallow air, and shiver in wonder."

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