
Science fact/fiction
William MorrisonIsaac AsimovRobert SheckleyPhilip J. HiltsMarion GrossRichard BrautiganRoald DahlEdmund J. FarrellWolfgang PauliPhilip K. DickFritz LeiberAlfred BesterArthur KoestlerR. Buckminster FullerDamon KnightWalter S. TevisT.P. CaravanDouglas ColliganOlga CabralJack AndersonFredric BrownAnatoly DnieprovH. G. WellsRobert BlochJack FinneyDavid ElyPeter TompkinsKarel ČapekMay SwensonCharles BeaumontChristopher BirdWilliam StaffordPhilip José FarmerEdmond HamiltonJosephine MilesJack LewisHarry HarrisonRay BradburyArthur C. ClarkeFrederik PohlShirley JacksonHoward FastKurt Vonnegut
About this book
Science fiction: before Christ and after 2001, an introduction / Ray Bradbury --
The gun without a bang / Robert Sheckley --
Crabs take over the island / Anatoly Dnieprov --
All watched over by machines of loving grace / Richard Brautigan --
EPICAC / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. --
R.U.R. / Karel Capek --
The human factor / David Ely --
The thinking machine / Isaac Asimov --
Misbegotten missionary / Isaac Asimov --
Elegy / Charles Beaumont --
Aesthetics of the moon / Jack Anderson --
Constant reader / Robert Bloch --
Who's there? / Arthur C. Clarke --
We'll never conquer space / Arthur C. Clarke --
The sack / William Morrison --
Mariana / Fritz Leiber --
I always do what Teddy says / Harry Harrison --
The man who could work miracles / H.G. Wells --
Echoes of the mind / Arthur Koestler --
The reluctant orchid / Arthur C. Clarke --
Founding father / Isaac Asimov --
The wound / Howard Fast --
The [sound machine](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8318678W) / Roald Dahl --
Love among the cabbages / Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird --
Puppet show / Fredric Brown --
Random sample / T.P. Caravan --
On the wheel / Damon Knight --
Orbiter 5 shows how Earth looks from the moon / May Swenson --
The king of the beasts / Philip Jose Farmer --
UFO detective solves 'em all, well, almost / Philip J. Hilts --
The good provider / Marion Gross --
A sound of thunder / Ray Bradbury --
Who's cribbing? / Jack Lewis --
The third level / Jack Finney --
Speed / Josephine Miles --
The inn outside the world / Edmond Hamilton --
On the relativity of time / Wolfgang Pauli --
Relativity wins again --
A matter of overtime --
There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury --
The forgotten enemy / Arthur C. Clarke --
Earthmen bearing gifts / Fredric Brown --
The lfth of Oofth / Walter Tevis --
Electronic tape found in a bottle / Olga Cabral --
Brace yourself for another ice age / Douglas Colligan --
The census takers / Frederik Pohl --
Disappearing act / Alfred Bester --
Bulletin / Shirley Jackson --
Autofac / Philip K. Dick --
Toward the space age / William Stafford --
Spaceship Earth / R. Buckminster Fuller --
Biographies of authors --
Science-fiction awards.
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