Science Fiction

by Sylvia Z. Brodkin (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, Unknown Binding

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...