Title: The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction Pdf
Author: Arthur B. Evans
Published Date: 2010-08-01
Page: 767
“No institutional library should be without this truly phenomenal volume, and non-academic readers will greatly appreciate the bargain-basement price on the trade paperback edition.”—Publishers Weekly“This big book is both a thrilling and entertaining and a convincing argument for the way SF can refresh the mind, play boldly with form and reflect its era creatively – in other words, what all good literature should do.”—Ed Park, Los Angeles Times“This anthology offers an overview from the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Jules Verne to those of William Gibson - so thorough with its brief, informative analyses at the start of each story, reading this collection is like taking a course without the bother of tests.”—Eve Ottenberg, Washington City Paper"[W]hat has notably been missing is an anthology that bridges the gap between the classroom and the general reader, a book that is both an excellent teaching tool and a pretty good overview of the field for SF Readers who began their reading in the 1980s or later … The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction is very nearly that book, and is almost certainly the most useful SF teaching and historical anthology now available."—Gary K. Wolfe, Locus magazine"[I]t comes closer to perfection … than any single-volume collection of science fiction short stories I have seen. The six editors … have selected the contents with care, highlighting the heterogeneous nature of the field in almost every respect, from gender and race to subject matter and stylistic approach."—Paul Witcover, Locus“The stories in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction reveal modern, written sf to be a mature, flexible, often sophisticated way to tell tales whose concerns are those of realistic literature … but whose focus is on the impact of science and technology. The Wesleyan Anthology succeeds brilliantly.”—Michael A. Morrison, World Literature Today“It’s an absolutely knockout collection that belongs on ever serious collector’s shelf.”—John O'Neill, Black Gate Magazine“[I]f the story is good people will flock to it. This seems to be the operative philosophy of The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction.”—Alan Bisbort, Sunday Republican "This is an excellent collection of one of world literature's greatest treasure troves: the science fiction short story in English. The stories form a kind of history of the genre, and are a continuous reading pleasure."―Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars Trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt"The key word here is megatext. The Wesleyan Anthology presents the best sample from today's sf megatext―the 'fictive universe that includes all the sf stories that have ever been told,' as the Wesleyan's editors neatly put it―that I could imagine fitting between two covers. Every story feels necessary to the whole. And the whole is a lure for readers, for teachers who want to inspire their classes, for all of us who care about understanding the turbulent world about us."―John Clute, editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
The stories in this anthology have been selected and introduced by the editors of Science Fiction Studies, the world’s most respected journal for the critical study of science fiction.
Comprehensvie Anthology for SF Novices And Aficionados A collection of 52 stories by different authors, extending from 1844 to 2008, and encompassing a variety of themes or sub-genres. Includes detailed biographies of each author (about a page-and-a-half each). It's an excellent introduction to the various types of sf, and to the way in which sf writing has changed over time. Whether you think sf is tedious and sophomoric or great but under-appreciated literature, this volume is a good benchmark for examination of the genre.Got it for school My prof has us reading these for STS at UVa, and I'll probably read some that aren't even assigned. It's a decent collection of interesting stories, from a lot of big names in Sci Fi. Book quality that I got is what you'd expect. It would be kind of nice, though, if there was a listing of the stories alphabetically. Finding a specific one can be tough to find as they don't seem to be in any particular order.so I'm a little over half way through it now (it's something like 700 pages of the best sci fi short stories ... Okay, so I'm a little over half way through it now (it's something like 700 pages of the best sci fi short stories ever written in my mind, by science fiction legends) and all I can say is that this book is phenomenal. I've heard about many of the short stories included in this volume, many of them have been the basis for huge blockbuster movies. Take "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" by Phillip K Dick, that short story more or less inspired the film "Total Recall". You have stories that stick with you like "Burning Chrome" by William Gibson, the man credited with coining the term 'cybersapce'. If you're a fan of Black Mirror or just want to know what real, good, top shelf science fiction is, I whole-heartedly recommend this.
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