Science Fiction

by Sylvia Z. Elizabeth J. Pearson Brodkin (Editor), Elizabeth J. Pearson (Editor)

Contents

The Sentinel • [A Space Odyssey] • (1951) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
Zero Hour • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Harrison Bergeron • (1961) • short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Chief • (1960) • short story by Henry Slesar
Litterbug • (1969) • novelette by Tony Morphett
Green Patches • (1950) • short story by Isaac Asimov
The Yellow Pill • (1958) • short story by Rog Phillips
Enchanted Village • (1950) • short story by A. E. van Vogt
Of Missing Persons • (1955) • short story by Jack Finney
"—And He Built a Crooked House" • (1941) • novelette by Robert A. Heinlein
A Sound of Thunder • (1952) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Winner • (1970) • short story by Donald E. Westlake
Summertime on Icarus • (1960) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
By the Waters of Babylon • (1937) • short story by Stephen Vincent Benét
HEMEAC • (1968) • short story by E. G. Von Wald
Prisoners of Paradise • (1966) • short story by David Redd
Victory Parade • (1957) • short story by Henry Slesar
A Projection • (1955) • poem by Reed Whittemore
We'll All Be Space-Men Before We Die • (1968) • poem by Mike Evans (II)
Ghost Crabs • (1966) • poem by Ted Hughes
Mushrooms • (1969) • poem by Mike Evans (II)
Mushrooms • (1960) • poem by Sylvia Plath
A.D. 2267 • (1967) • poem by John Frederick Nims
Afterwards • (1964) • poem by Edward Lucie-Smith
Voyage to the Moon • (1964) • poem by William Dickey
The Flight of Apollo • (1969) • poem by Stanley Kunitz
Orbiter 5 Shows How Earth Looks from the Moon • (1969) • poem by May Swenson
Off Course • (1967) • poem by Edwin Morgan
I Am A • (1969) • poem by Lenore Marshall
Space Man • (1969) • poem by Babette Deutsch
Electronic Concert • (1963) • poem by Babette Deutsch
And It Will Serve Us Right • (1969) • essay by Isaac Asimov
 Europe After the Rain • interior artwork by Max Ernst
 Sun and Forest • interior artwork by Max Ernst
 Fool from the Depths • interior artwork by Paul Klee
 The Melancholy and Mystery of a Street • interior artwork by Giorgio de Chirico
 The Earth Is a Man • interior artwork by Roberto Matta
 The Aliens • interior artwork by Wolfgang Paalen
 A Large Painting Which Is a Landscape • interior artwork by Yves Tanguy
 The Dead Child • interior artwork by Miljenko Stancic
Moonshot Sonnet • poem by Mary Ellen Solt
 Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird • interior artwork by Joan Miro
 Eyeball of the Sun • interior artwork by Bernard Childs
 The Sea • interior artwork by Max Ernst
 The Castle of the Pyrenees • interior artwork by René Magritte
 The Whole City • interior artwork by Max Ernst
 Untitled Box No. 3 • interior artwork by Lucas Samaris
 On the Threshold of Freedom • interior artwork by René Magritte
 Male Figure • interior artwork by Nancy Grossman
 Peruvian Mummy Mask • interior artwork by uncredited
 Mechanical Head • interior artwork by Raoul Hausmann
 Man Falling Forward • interior artwork by Juan Genoves
 Two Dancers • interior artwork by Haniwa
 Mama, Papa Is Wounded! • interior artwork by Yves Tanguy
 Village Dance Mask from Ceylon • interior artwork by uncredited
 Piége • interior artwork by Herve Telemaque
 Head • interior artwork by Rudolph Belling
 Butterflies • interior artwork by M. C. Escher
 Puddle • interior artwork by M. C. Escher
 Equivocation • interior artwork by Ben Cunningham
 Up and Down • interior artwork by M. C. Escher
 The Phases of the Night • interior artwork by Max Ernst
 Photographic Evidence • interior artwork by Juan Genoves

Genres: Science Fiction, Short Stories

247 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1973

Reviews

[Heidi · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5 stars

One of the best science
fiction collections I have
encountered. Almost all
of the stories are very good--
with a few being really
exceptional.

[Shanna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finally found this book on Amazon--it was my mom's old high school textbook and I read it so much as a kid that it literally fell apart. There were some really great stories in there that I want to use in my classroom, so I am psyched that I was able to track it down.

[Gary · Rating 3 out of 5]

I got this book mainly because I wanted to read "The Sentinel" by Clarke. There are a few other gems in here, too.

[Fritz · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Vonnegut story about everyone being equail is funny and chilling.

Asimov writes an essay about how he's the inventor of the robot code of ethics. It's great when a person inserts themselves into history citing themselves and the works they've created, just so that historians will get the record straight.

I enjoyed Robert Heinlein's story about an architect who builds a four dimensional house, a tesseract.

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was actually the textbook for my sci-fi English class. Contains some of my favorite science fiction short stories and writers. So many good stories in one book.

[Snail in Danger (Sid) Nicolaides]

Picked this up for the short story "Victory Parade." Re-found with help.

[Don · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lot of memories here. This is the book used in Science Fiction class in my senior year of high school...