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- W1576869674 abstract "In Swarm, Bruce Stirling takes reader inside Nest, a vast honeycomb of caverns within an asteroid orbiting Betelgeuse, peopled by hundreds of thousands of large, insectlike aliens, including eight-legged, furred workers size of Great Danes, and horse-sized warriors with heavy, fanged heads. In Screwfly Solution, Raccoona Sheldon creates a world much like modern America, except that something--an insect virus, a mass religious delusion, or an alien--is infecting men worldwide, converting their sexual drive into homicidal rage against women. And J.G. Ballard in Billennium portrays end result of unchecked population growth, a claustrophobic city of 30 million people, where by law unmarried must live in cubicles four meters square. These three tales, though strikingly different, have one thing in common--each evokes a world that is uniquely author's own. Indeed, to read any science fiction writer is to enter into another world. It may be a world far off in space or time, or it may be right here, right now, but with a twist--an invention, or event, or visitor--that suddenly changes everything. In The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories, Tom Shippey has brought together thirty classic science fiction tales, each of which offers a unique vision, an altered reality, a universe all its own. Here are some of great names in science fiction--H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Frederik Pohl, Brian Aldiss, Ursula K. Le Guin, Thomas Disch, Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, and David Brin. To give readers a sense of how genre's range, vitality, and literary quality evolved over time, Shippey has organized these stories chronologically. Readers can sample H.G. Well's 1903 story Land Ironclads (which predicted stalemate of trench warfare and invention of tank), Jack Williamson's Metal Man, a rarely anthologized gem written in 1928, Clifford D. Simak's 1940s classic, Desertion, set on the howling maelstrom that was Jupiter, Frederik Pohl's 1955 Tunnel Under World (with its gripping first line, On morning of June 15th, Guy Burckhardt woke up screaming out of a dream), right up to current crop of writers, such as cyberpunks Bruce Sterling and William Gibson, whose 1982 story Burning Chrome foreshadows idea of virtual reality, and David Brin's Piecework, written in 1990. In addition, Shippey provides an informative introduction, examining history of genre, it major themes, and its literary techniques. Here then is a galaxy of classic science fiction tales, written by stars of genre. Anyone with a serious interest in science fiction--and everyone who has entertained a curiosity about genre--will find this volume enthralling." @default.
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