The Norton Book of Science Fiction

About this book

In the tradition of other groundbreaking Norton Collections Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Atteberys Norton Book of Science Fiction provides the first truly comprehensive and coherent look at the best of contemporary science fiction. Successfully used at over one hundred schools nationwide these sixty-seven stories offer compelling evidence that science fiction is a source of the most thoughtful imaginative-indeed literary-fiction being written today. Readers will be introduced to some rarely anthologized gems from well-known authors-Poul Anderson Margaret Atwood Octavia Butler Samuel R. Delany Philip K. Dick William Gibson Joanna Russ Theodore Sturgeon James Tiptree Jr. Gene Wolfe Roger Zelazny-as well as starling work by todays rising stars. Students and teachers alike will appreciate the sophisticated range of voices exploring the nature of reality and the condition of the human spirit.