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When do we read the stories and introductions, and from which books? This
guide will help you find the readings without having to paw through the tables
of contents.
Be sure to read the short essays that introduce each story, as well as the book introductions
whenever we start a new volume.
Back to the short-fiction syllabus.
Volume I: From Gilgamesh to Wells
The roots that grew our genre.
A fictional travelogue from proto-SF through the mothers and fathers of science fiction.
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Day
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Name
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Author
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Introduction
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The
First Voyage to the Moon
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2A
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excerpt
from A True Story
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Lucian
of Samosata
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Strange
Creatures and Far Traveling
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2A
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excerpt
from The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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Anonymous
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The
Good Place That Is No Place
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2B
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excerpt
from Utopia
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Thomas
More
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The
New Science and the Old Religion
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2B
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excerpt
from The City of the Sun
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Tommaso
Campanella
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Experience,
Experiment, and the Battle for Men's Minds
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2B
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excerpt
from The New Atlantis
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Francis
Bacon
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A
New Look at the Heavens and Another Trip to the Moon
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2A
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Somnium
or Lunar Astronomy
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Johannes
Kepler
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Commuting
to the Moon
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3A
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excerpt
from A Voyage to the Moon
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Cyrano
de Bergerac
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The
Age of Reason and the Voice of Dissent
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3A
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excerpt
from A Voyage to Laputa
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Jonathan
Swift
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Imaginary
Voyages in the Other Direction
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2A
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excerpt
from The Journey to the World Underground
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Ludvig
Holberg
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Visitors
From Space
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3A
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"Micromgas"
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Francois
Marie Arouet de Voltaire
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Science
and Literature: When Worlds Collide
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1A
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excerpt
from Frankenstein
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Mary
Shelley
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Science
as Symbol
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1A
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"Rappaccini's
Daughter"
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Nathaniel
Hawthorne
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Anticipations
of the Future
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2A
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"Mellonta
Tauta"
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Edgar
Allan Poe
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Expanding
the Vision
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1A
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"The
Diamond Lens"
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Fitz-James
O'Brien
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The
Indispensable Frenchman
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2A
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excerpt
from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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Jules
Verne
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2A
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excerpt
from Around the Moon
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Jules
Verne
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Lost
Civilizations and Ancient Knowledge
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4A
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excerpt
from She
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H.
Rider Haggard
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The
New Frontier
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2A
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excerpt
from Looking Backward
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Edward
Bellamy
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New
Magazines, New Readers, New Writers
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3B
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"The
Damned Thing"
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Ambrose
Bierce
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A
Flying Start
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2A
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"With
the Night Mail"
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Rudyard
Kipling
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The
Father of Modern Science Fiction
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1B
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"The
Star"
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H.G.
Wells
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Volume 2: From Wells to Heinlein
The birth of science fiction as a genre through the emergence of the Golden Age.
Experimenting in new worlds, exploring the sense of wonder.
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Day
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Name
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Author
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Science:
The New Accelerator
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4B
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The
New Accelerator
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H.G.
Wells
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The
Literary Dissent
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1B
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The
Machine Stops
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E.M.
Forster
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Islands
in the Sky, Or Romance Triumphant
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4A
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From
Under the Moons of Mars
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Edgar
Rice Burroughs
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More
Things Under Heaven and Earth
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3B
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The
Moon Pool (2002)
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A.
Merritt
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The
people of the pit (1979)
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A.
Merritt
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The
Call of the Fantastic
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3B
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The
Red One
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Jack
London
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The
Horror Out of Providence
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3B
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Dagon
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H.P.
Lovecraft
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The
Science-Fiction Magazine Begins Its Amazing Career
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4B
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The
Tissue-Culture King
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Julian
Huxley
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Pedestrian
Words, Soaring Concepts
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3A
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The
Revolt of the Pedestrians
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David
H. Keller, M.D.
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The
Philosopher of Time and Space
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5A
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From
Last and First Men
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Olaf
Stapledon
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Ford's
in His Flivver
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3A
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From
Brave New World
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Aldous
Huxley
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The
Alien from Milwaukee
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4A
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A
Martian Odyssey
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Stanley
G. Weinbaum
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Who
Went There
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1B
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Twilight
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John
W. Campbell
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The
Idea Machine
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4A
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Proxima
Centauri
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Murray
Leinster
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The
World-Wrecker on Mars
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5A
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What's
It Like Out There?
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Edmond
Hamilton
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The
Legion of Science Fiction
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4B
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With
Folded Hands
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Jack
Williamson
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Mission
of Levity
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5B
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Hyperpilosity
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L.
Sprague de Camp
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The
Alchemists Gather
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5A
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The
Faithful
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Lester
del Rey
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The
Fairy Tales of Science
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4A
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Black
Destroyer
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A.E.
van Vogt
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The
Stars Appear
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5B
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Nightfall
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Isaac
Asimov
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The
Man Who Sold the Genre
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5A
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Requiem
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Robert
A. Heinlein
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A
chronology of Science Fiction
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About
the Editor
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Volume 3: From Heinlein to Here
Science fiction blossoms: The rise of the Golden Age through the New Wave and beyond
What many consider the best work in the genre...
at least the best published from 1940 to 1977.
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Day
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Name
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Author
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Beyond
These Horizons
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6B
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"All
You Zombies"
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Robert
A. Heinlein
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Clear, Cool Voice of Asimov
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5B
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Reason
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Isaac
Asimov
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The
Simak Reservation
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7A
| Desertion
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Clifford
D. Simak
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Mimsy
Were the Kuttners
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8A
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Mimsy
Were the Borogoves
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Lewis
Padgett (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore)
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| The
Bradbury Chronicles
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7B
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The
Million-Year Picnic
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Ray
Bradbury
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| More
Than SF
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7B
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Thunder
and Roses
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Theodore
Sturgeon
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| Ecce
Femina
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7B
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That
Only a Mother
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Judith
Merril
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| A
Matter of Time
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4B
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Brooklyn
Project
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William
Tenn (Philip Klass)
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| The
Social Side
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8B
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Coming
Attraction
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Fritz
Leiber
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| The
Expanding Universe
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8A
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The
Sentinel
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Arthur
C. Clarke
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| Farmerworld
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6A
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Sail
On! Sail On!
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Jos
Farmer
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| The
Science in Science Fiction
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5B
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Critical
Factor
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Hal
Clement
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| Why
Not Literature?
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9A
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Fondly
Fahrenheit
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Alfred
Bester
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| A
Touch of Stone
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1A
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The
Cold Equations
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Tom
Godwin
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| The
Ballads of Lost C. Smith
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7A
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The
Game of Rat and Dragon
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Cordwainer
Smith
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| Scalpel
of Wit
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9A
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Pilgrimage
to Earth
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Robert
Sheckley
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| The
British Are Coming!
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7A
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Who
Can Replace a Man?
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Brian
W. Aldiss
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| The
Sirens of Mainstream
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8B
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Harrison
Bergeron
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Kurt
Vonnegut, Jr.
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| That
Old-Time Religion
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9A
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The
Streets of Ashkelon
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Harry
Harrison
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| Terminal
Fiction
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7B
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The
Terminal Beach
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J.
G. Ballard
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| Again
and Again
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7A
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Dolphin's
Way
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Gordon
R. Dickson
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| The
Future as Metaphor
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8B
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Slow
Tuesday Night
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R.
A. Lafferty
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| Through
a Glass Darkly
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7A
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Day
Million
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Frederik
Pohl
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| Will
Reality Please Raise Its Hand?
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6B
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We
Can Remember It for You Wholesale
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Philip
K. Dick
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| The
New Thing
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9A
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I
Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
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Harlan
Ellison
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| Aye,
and Delany
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8B
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Aye,
and Gomorrah
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Samuel
R. Delany
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| The
New Scientific Revolution
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8B
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The
Jigsaw Man
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Larry
Niven
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| Hard
Science and Soft People
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8A
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Kyrie
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Poul
Anderson
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| Out
of the Knight
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9A
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Masks
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Damon
Knight
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| Surviving
the Future
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8B
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From
Stand on Zanzibar
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John
Brunner
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| The
Big Protest
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7B
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The
Big Flash
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Norman
Spinrad
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| The
Origin and Development of Science Fiction Writers
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6B
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Sundance
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Robert
Silverberg
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| Science
Fiction as Simile
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9B
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From
The Left Hand of Darkness
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Ursula
K. Le Guin
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| Issues
and Controversies
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9B
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When
It Changed
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Joanna
Russ
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| The
Science Fiction Art Story
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1A
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The
Engine at Heartspring's Center
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Roger
Zelazny
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| The
Uncertain Future
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7A
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Tricentennial
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Joe
Haldeman
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Volume 4: From Here to Forever
Science fiction comes of age.
Literary influences on the genre; the genre begins to influence the
mainstream literary culture.
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Day
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Name
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Author
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Born
of Skill and Money
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10A
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Born of Man and Woman
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Richard Matheson
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Heart
of Darkness
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11B
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The Luckiest Man in Denv
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C.M. Kornbluth
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A
Clash of Symbols
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10A
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Common Time
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James Blush
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Word
Magic
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12A
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My Boy Friend's Name is Jello
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Avram Davidson
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10B
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A
Canticle for the Fifties
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The First Canticle
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Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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The
Lodestone Genre
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10A
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Nobody Bothers Gus
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Algis Budrys
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Inferiority:
The Complex Problem
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10B
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Flowers for Algernon
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Daniel Keyes
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A
Question of Identity
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12B
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The Moon Moth
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Jack Vance
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The
View From the Outside
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11A
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The Library of Babel
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Jorge Luis Borges
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Inner
Concerns in Outer Space
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10B
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From Dune
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Frank Herbert
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The
Vigor of Traditional SF
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12B
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Light of Other Days
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Bob Shaw
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Ambiguities
and Inscrutabilities
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12A
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The First Sally (A), or Trurl's
Electronic Bard
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Stanislaw Lem
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Entropy
and the World War
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9B
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The heat death of the Universe
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Pamela Zoline
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Speculations
on Speculative Fiction
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12B
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The Planners
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Kate Wilhelm
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The
Alienness of the Alien
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10A
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The Dance of the Changer and
the Three
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Terry Carr
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The
Virtues of Indirection
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10A
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The Last Flight of Dr. Ain
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James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice
Sheldon)
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Radical
Sensibility
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11B
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Where No Sun Shines
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Gardner Dozois
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Escape
Reading
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10B
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The Island of Doctor Death and
Other Stories
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Gene Wolfe
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Understanding
Reader Reaction
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11B
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Angouleme
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Thomas M. Disch
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The
Postwar Generation
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10B
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Gather Blue Roses
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Pamela Sargent
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The
Star Trek Syndrome
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11A
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With a Finger in My I
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David Gerrold
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Of
Men, and Women, and Society
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9B
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Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand
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Vonda N. McIntyre
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Of
Novas and Other Stars
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12B
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Air Raid
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John Varley
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Science
Fiction, Aliens, and Alienation
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11B
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Uncoupling
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Barry Malzberg
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Exotic
Parables
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11A
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Rogue Tomato
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Michael Bishop
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The
Labor Day Group
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11B
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This Tower of Ashes
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George R.R. Martin
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Fiction
and Science
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12C
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Particle Theory
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Edward Bryant
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The
Anthropology of the Future
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10A
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View from a Height
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Joan D. Vinge
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Form
and Content
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11A
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The Word Sweep
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George Zebrowski
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Dialectic
of History and Transcendence
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12A
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The World Science Fiction
Convention of 2080
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Ian Watson
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Estranging
the Everyday
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9B
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Abominable
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Carol Emshwiller
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Science
and Fiction
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12C
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Exposures
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Gregory Benford
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The
Real and the Surreal
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8A
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Schrdinger's Kitten
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George Alec Effinger
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updated 3/26/2013
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