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• xiii • Introduction (The Big Book of Science Fiction) • essay by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
• 1 • The Star • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 9 • Sultana's Dream • (1905) • short story by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
• 17 • The Triumph of Mechanics • short story by Karl Hans Strobl (trans. of Der Triumph der Mechanik 1907)
• 25 • The New Overworld • short story by Paul Scheerbart (trans. of Die neue Oberwelt. Eine Venus-Novellette 1911)
• 30 • Elements of Pataphysics • short story by Alfred Jarry (trans. of Éléments de pataphysique 1911)
• 37 • Mechanopolis • short story by Miguel de Unamuno (trans. of
  Mecanópolis^?Mecanopolis
  1913)
• 41 • The Doom of Principal City • short story by
  Ефим Зозуля^?Yefim Zozulya
  (trans. of
  Гибель Главного города^?Gibel' Glavnogo goroda
  1918) [as by Yefim Zozulya]
• 53 • The Comet • (1920) • short story by W. E. B. Du Bois
• 62 • The Fate of the Poseidonia • (1927) • short story by Clare Winger Harris
• 76 • The Star Stealers • [Interstellar Patrol • 2] • (1965) • novelette by Edmond Hamilton (variant of The Star-Stealers 1929)
• 98 • The Conquest of Gola • (1931) • short story by Leslie F. Stone
• 108 • A Martian Odyssey • [Tweel • 1] • (1934) • novelette by Stanley G. Weinbaum
• 124 • The Last Poet and the Robots • (1934) • short story by A. Merritt
• 133 • The Microscopic Giants • (1936) • short story by Paul Ernst
• 144 • Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius • (1998) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of
  Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius^?Tloen, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
  1940)
• 156 • Desertion • [City] • (1944) • short story by Clifford D. Simak
• 164 • September 2005: The Martian • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Martian 1949)
• 173 • Baby HP • short story by Juan José Arreola (trans. of Baby H. P. 1952)
• 176 • Surface Tension • [Pantropy] • (1952) • novelette by James Blish
• 215 • Beyond Lies the Wub • (1952) • short story by Philip K. Dick
• 221 • The Snowball Effect • (1952) • short story by Katherine MacLean
• 230 • Prott • (1953) • short story by Margaret St. Clair
• 240 • The Liberation of Earth • (1953) • short story by William Tenn
• 252 • Let Me Live in a House • (1954) • novelette by Chad Oliver
• 270 • The Star • (1955) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 275 • Grandpa • [The Hub] • (1955) • novelette by James H. Schmitz
• 290 • The Game of Rat and Dragon • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1955) • short story by Cordwainer Smith
• 300 • The Last Question • [Multivac] • (1956) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 309 • Stranger Station • (1956) • novelette by Damon Knight
• 325 • Sector General • [Sector General] • (1957) • novelette by James White
• 354 • The Visitors • novelette by
  Аркадий Стругацкий^?Arkady Strugatsky
  and
  Борис Стругацкий^?Boris Strugatsky
  (trans. of
  Извне^?Izvne
  1958) [as by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky]
• 365 • Pelt • (1958) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 373 • The Monster • (1965) • short story by
  Gérard Klein^?Gerard Klein
  (trans. of Le monstre 1958)
• 382 • The Man Who Lost the Sea • (1959) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 390 • The Waves • short story by Silvina Ocampo (trans. of Las ondas 1959)
• 395 • Plenitude • (1959) • short story by Will Mohler
• 403 • The Voices of Time • (1960) • novelette by J. G. Ballard
• 424 • The Astronaut • short story by
  Валентина Журавлёва^?Valentina Zhuravlyova
  (trans. of
  Астронавт^?Astronavt
  1960) [as by Valentina Zhuravlyova]
• 436 • The Squid Chooses Its Own Ink • short story by Adolfo Bioy Casares (trans. of El calamar opta por su tinta 1962)
• 446 • 2 B R 0 2 B • (1962) • short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• 452 • A Modest Genius • (1973) • short story by
  Вадим Шефнер^?Vadim Shefner
  (trans. of
  Скромный гений^?Skromnyy geniy
  1963) [as by Vadim Shefner]
• 462 • Day of Wrath • novelette by
  Север Гансовский^?Sever Gansovsky
  (trans. of
  День гнева^?Den' gneva
  1965) [as by Sever Gansovsky]
• 478 • The Hands • (1965) • short story by John Baxter
• 484 • Darkness • (1972) • short story by
  André Carneiro^?Andre Carneiro
  (trans. of
  A escuridão^?A escuridao
  1963)
• 491 • "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman • (1965) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 500 • Nine Hundred Grandmothers • [Habitable Worlds] • (1966) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 508 • Day Million • (1966) • short story by Frederik Pohl
• 514 • Student Body • (1953) • novelette by F. L. Wallace
• 527 • Aye, and Gomorrah • (1970) • short story by Samuel R. Delany (variant of Aye, and Gomorrah ... 1967)
• 534 • The Hall of Machines • (1968) • short story by Langdon Jones
• 542 • Soft Clocks • (1989) • short story by
  荒巻義雄^?あらまきよしお
  Yoshio Aramaki
  (trans. of
  柔らかい時計^?Yawarakai Tokei
  1968) [as by Yoshio Aramaki]
• 557 • No Cracks or Sagging • [Moderan] • (1970) • short story by David R. Bunch (variant of No Cracks or Saggings)
• 562 • New Kings Are Not for Laughing • [Moderan] • (1971) • short story by David R. Bunch
• 566 • The Flesh Man from Far Wide • [Moderan] • short story by David R. Bunch (variant of The Flesh-Man from Far Wide 1959)
• 569 • Let Us Save the Universe (An Open Letter from Ijon Tichy) • [
  Ze wspomnień Ijona Tichego / From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy^?Ze wspomnien Ijona Tichego / From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
  ] • (1981) • short story by
  Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem
  (trans. of Ratujmy kosmos 1964)
• 577 • Vaster Than Empires and More Slow • [Hainish] • (1971) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 596 • Good News from the Vatican • (1971) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 602 • When It Changed • [Whileaway] • (1972) • short story by Joanna Russ
• 608 • And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side • (1972) • short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 615 • Where Two Paths Cross • short story by
  Дмитрий Биленкин^?Dmitri Bilenkin
  Dmitriy Bilenkin
  (trans. of
  Пересечение пути^?Peresechenie puti
  1973) [as by Dmitri Bilenkin]
• 625 • Standing Woman • (1981) • short story by
  筒井康隆^?Tsutsui Yasutaka
  つつい やすたか
  (trans. of
  佇むひと^?Tatazumu Hito
  1974) [as by Yasutaka Tsutsui]
• 632 • The IWM 1000 • (1990) • short story by Alicia Yánez Cossío (trans. of La IWM mil 1975)
• 636 • The House of Compassionate Sharers • [Glaktik Komm] • (1977) • novelette by Michael Bishop
• 655 • Sporting with the Chid • (1979) • short story by Barrington J. Bayley
• 667 • Sandkings • [Thousand Worlds] • (1979) • novelette by George R. R. Martin
• 692 • Wives • (1979) • short story by Lisa Tuttle
• 699 • The Snake Who Had Read Chomsky • (1981) • novelette by Josephine Saxton
• 712 • Reiko's Universe Box • (2007) • short story by
  梶尾真治^?Shinji Kajio
  かじおしんじ
  (trans. of
  玲子の箱宇宙^?Reiko no Hako Uchū
  ) [as by Kajio Shinji]
• 720 • Swarm • [Shaper/Mechanist] • (1982) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• 736 • Mondocane • short story by
  Jacques Barbéri^?Jacques Barberi
  (trans. of Mondocane 1983)
• 740 • Blood Music • (1983) • novelette by Greg Bear
• 755 • Bloodchild • (1984) • novelette by Octavia E. Butler
• 768 • Variation on a Man • [Deadpan Allie] • (1984) • short story by Pat Cadigan
• 782 • Passing As a Flower in the City of the Dead • short story by Sharon N. Farber [as by S. N. Dyer]
• 794 • New Rose Hotel • [Neuromancer / Sprawl Trilogy] • (1984) • short story by William Gibson
• 802 • Pots • (1985) • novelette by C. J. Cherryh
• 820 • Snow • (1985) • short story by John Crowley
• 830 • The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things • (1985) • short story by Karen Joy Fowler
• 839 • The Unmistakable Smell of Wood Violets • short story by Angélica Gorodischer (trans. of El inconfundible aroma de las violetas silvestres 1991)
• 846 • The Owl of Bear Island • (1986) • short story by Jon Bing (trans. of
  Ugle på Bjørnøya^?Ugle pa Bjornoya
  )
• 853 • Readers of the Lost Art • (1996) • short story by
  Élisabeth Vonarburg^?Elisabeth Vonarburg
  (trans. of La carte du Tendre 1986)
• 864 • A Gift from the Culture • [Culture] • (1987) • short story by Iain M. Banks
• 875 • Paranamanco • short story by Jean-Claude Dunyach (trans. of Paranamanco 1988)
• 886 • Crying in the Rain • (1987) • short story by Tanith Lee
• 897 • The Frozen Cardinal • (1987) • short story by Michael Moorcock
• 905 • Rachel in Love • (1987) • novelette by Pat Murphy
• 924 • Sharing Air • (1984) • short story by Manjula Padmanabhan
• 928 • Schwarzschild Radius • (1987) • short story by Connie Willis
• 940 • All the Hues of Hell • (1987) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 949 • Vacuum States • (1988) • short story by Geoffrey A. Landis
• 955 • Two Small Birds • short story by
  韩松^?Han Song
  (trans. of
  两只小鸟^?Liǎng zhī xiǎo niǎo
  Liang zhi xiao niao
  1998) [as by Han Song]
• 961 • Burning Sky • (1989) • short story by Rachel Pollack
• 969 • Before I Wake • (1989) • short story by Kim Stanley Robinson
• 977 • Death Is Static Death Is Movement • short story by Misha [as by Misha Nogha]
• 991 • The Brains of Rats • (1986) • short story by Michael Blumlein
• 1002 • Gorgonoids • (2016) • short fiction by Leena Krohn
• 1008 • Vacancy for the Post of Jesus Christ • (1992) • short story by Kojo Laing
• 1016 • The Universe of Things • (1993) • short story by Gwyneth Jones
• 1024 • The Remoras • [The Great Ship Universe] • (1994) • novelette by Robert Reed
• 1044 • The Ghost Standard • (1994) • short story by William Tenn
• 1051 • Remnants of the Virago Crypto-System • (1995) • short story by Geoffrey Maloney
• 1056 • How Alex Became a Machine • novelette by Stepan Chapman
• 1076 • The Poetry Cloud • short story by Cixin Liu (trans. of
  诗云^?Shī yún
  Shi yun
  2003)
• 1097 • Story of Your Life • (1998) • novella by Ted Chiang
• 1126 • Craphound • (1998) • short story by Cory Doctorow
• 1138 • The Slynx (excerpt) • short fiction by
  Татьяна Толстая^?Tat'yana Tolstaya
  Tat'jana Tolstaja
  [as by Tatyana Tolstaya]
• 1146 • Baby Doll • (2007) • novelette by Johanna Sinisalo (trans. of Baby Doll 2002)
• 1163 • About the Editors (The Big Book of Science Fiction) • essay by uncredited
• 1165 • About the Translators (The Big Book of Science Fiction) • essay by uncredited