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Summary
(From the publisher):
The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard Science Fiction is a groundbreaking collection of SF's finest works, selected by two of the field's most respected anthologists from the genre's visionary core -- the pure form known as "hard SF" that has always been the field's cutting edge. In The Ascent of Wonder, David G. Hartwell, editor of the critically acclaimed, World Fantasy Award-winning The Dark Descent: The Evolution of Horror, which redefined the literature of terror, joines with noted anthologist Kathryn Cramer to craft an equally ambitious exploration of this challenging and controversial literary form. The volume contains more than sixty exciting, insightful works of short science fiction by many of the field's best-known writers, as well as insightful interpretive essays by the editors and by author and scientist Gregory Benford.
The Ascent of Wonder is not only a definitive collection of many of science fiction's landmark works, it also provides a brilliant critical analysis of the origins and meaning of this popular literary form. "Hard SF is about the beauty of truth," writes David Hartwell in his Introduction. "It is a symbolic representation of the wonder at the perception of truth that is experienced at the moment of scientific discovery." The stories in the collection explore that theme -- the lively dialogue between unbridled imagination and hard scientific reality that has produced the field's most influential and memorable works. The authors represented range from the genre's earliest pioneers to its most visionary innovators, and its most outstanding younger talents.
Includes introductions by Gregory Benford, Kathryn Cramer, and David G. Hartwell.
Original title: The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction
The following works are contained within this one:
Descent into the Maelström, a (1841) [Short Story]
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Rappaccini's Daughter (1844) [Short Story]
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
In the Year 2889 (1889) [Short Story]
Author: Jules Verne
Land Ironclads, the (1903) [Short Story]
Author: H. G. Wells
With the Night Mail (1905) [Short Story]
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Hungry Guinea Pig, the (1930) [Short Story]
Author: Miles J. Breuer
Atomic Power (1934) [Short Story]
Authors: Don A. Stuart
, John W. Campbell
Davy Jones' Ambassador (1935) [Short Story]
Author: Raymond Z. Gallun
Proof (1942) [Short Story]
Author: Hal Clement
Mimsy Were the Borogroves (1943) [Novelette]
Authors: Henry Kuttner
, Catherine Lucille (C.L.) Moore
, Lewis Padgett
Desertion (1944) [Short Story]
Author: Clifford D. Simak
Person from Porlock, the (1947) [Short Story]
Author: Raymond F. Jones
"It's Great to Be Back!" (1947) [Short Story]
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Xi Effect, the (1950) [Short Story]
Author: Philip Latham
Surface Tension (1952) [Short Story]
Author: James Blish
Snowball Effect, the (1952) [Short Story]
Author: Katherine MacLean
Indefatigable Frog, the (1953) [Short Story]
Author: Philip K. Dick
Beep (1954) [Short Story]
Author: James Blish
Time Fuze (1954) [Short Story]
Author: Randall Garrett
Cold Equations, the (1954) [Short Story]
Author: Tom Godwin
Gomez (1954) [Short Story]
Author: Cyril M. Kornbluth
Star, the (1955) [Short Story]
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Last Question, the (1956) [Short Story]
Author: Isaac Asimov
Prima Belladonna (1956) [Short Story]
Author: J. G. Ballard
Pi Man, the (1959) [Short Story]
Author: Alfred Bester
No, No, Not Rogov! (1959) [Short Story]
Author: Cordwainer Smith
Cage of Sand, the (1962) [Short Story]
Author: J. G. Ballard
Weather Man, the (1962) [Short Story]
Author: Theodore L. Thomas
Dolphin's Way (1964) [Short Story]
Author: Gordon R. Dickson
Longest Science Fiction Story Ever Told, the (1965) [Short Story]
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Bookworm, Run! (1966) [Short Story]
Author: Vernor Vinge
Day Million (1966) [Short Story]
Author: Frederik Pohl
Light of Other Days (1966) [Short Story]
Author: Bob Shaw
Weyr Search (1967) [Novella]
Author: Anne McCaffrey
Planners, the (1968) [Short Story]
Author: Kate Wilhelm
Kyrie (1968) [Short Story]
Author: Poul Anderson
Nine Lives (1969) [Novelette]
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Waterclap (1970) [Short Story]
Author: Isaac Asimov
Occam's Scalpel (1971) [Novelette]
Author: Theodore Sturgeon
Transit of Earth (1971) [Short Story]
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Author of the Acacia Seeds, the (1974) [Short Story]
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Life and Times of Multivac, the (1975) [Short Story]
Author: Isaac Asimov
Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats, the (1976) [Short Story]
Author: James Tiptree, Jr.
Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck, the (1978) [Short Story]
Author: Hilbert Schenck
To Bring in the Steel (1978) [Short Story]
Author: Donald M. Kingsbury
In a Petri Dish Upstairs (1978) [Short Story]
Author: George Turner
Very Slow Time Machine, the (1978) [Short Story]
Author: Ian Watson
giANTS (1979) [Short Story]
Author: Ed Bryant
Singing Diamond, the (1979) [Short Story]
Author: Robert L. Forward
Down & Out on Ellfive Prime (1979) [Short Story]
Author: Dean Ing
Drode's Equations (1981) [Short Story]
Author: Richard Grant
Johnny Mnemonic (1981) [Short Story]
Author: William Gibson
Exposures (1981) [Short Story]
Author: Gregory Benford
Making Light (1981) [Short Story]
Author: James P. Hogan
Relativistic Effects (1982) [Short Story]
Author: Gregory Benford
Message Found in a Copy of Flatland (1983) [Short Story]
Author: Rudy Rucker
Send Me a Kiss by Wire (1984) [Short Story]
Author: Hilbert Schenck
Heat of Fusion (1984) [Short Story]
Author: John M. Ford
Procreation (1984) [Short Story]
Author: Gene Wolfe
Beautiful and the Sublime, the (1986) [Short Story]
Author: Bruce Sterling
Tangents (1986) [Short Story]
Author: Greg Bear
All the Hues of Hell (1987) [Short Story]
Author: Gene Wolfe
Stop Evolution in Its Tracks! (1988) [Short Story]
Author: John Sladek
Mammy Morgan Played the Organ; Her Daddy Beat the Drum (1990) [Short Story]
Author: Michael F. Flynn
Hole Man, the (1990) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
What Continues, What Fails... (1991) [Short Story]
Author: David Brin
Chromatic Aberration (1994) [Short Story]
Author: John M. Ford
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