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Synopsis

Featuring more than sixty groundbreaking short stories by modern science fiction's most important and influential writers, The Ascent of Wonder offers a definitive and incisive exploration of the SF genre's visionary core.

From Poe to Pohl, Wells to Wolfe, and Verne to Vinge, this hefty anthology fully charts the themes, trends, thoughts, and traditions that comprise the challenging yet rich literary form known as "hard SF."

Table of Contents:

• Real Science, Imaginary Worlds - (1994) - essay by Gregory Benford
• On Science and Science Fiction - (1993) - essay by Kathryn Cramer
• Hard Science Fiction - (1993) - essay by David G. Hartwell
• Nine Lives - (1969) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Light of Other Days - (1966) - shortstory by Bob Shaw
• Rappaccini's Daughter - (1844) - novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Star - (1955) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• Proof - (1942) - shortstory by Hal Clement
• "It's Great to Be Back!" - (1947) - shortstory by Robert A. Heinlein
• Procreation - (1983) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• Mimsy Were the Borogoves - (1943) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
• Davey Jones' Ambassador - (1935) - novelette by Raymond Z. Gallun
• The Life and Times of Multivac - (1975) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• The Singing Diamond - (1979) - shortstory by Robert L. Forward
• Down & Out on Ellfive Prime - (1979) - novelette by Dean Ing
• Send Me a Kiss by Wire - (1985) - shortstory by Hilbert Schenck
• The Xi Effect - (1950) - shortstory by R. S. Richardson
• A Descent Into the Maelstrom - (1841) - shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe
• Exposures - (1981) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
• The Planners - (1968) - shortstory by Kate Wilhelm
• Beep - (1954) - novelette by James Blish
• Drode's Equations - (1981) - novelette by Richard Grant
• The Weather Man - (1962) - novella by Theodore L. Thomas
• Transit of Earth - (1971) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• Prima Belladonna - (1956) - shortstory by J. G. Ballard
• To Bring in the Steel - (1978) - novelette by Donald Kingsbury
• Gomez - (1954) - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
• Waterclap - (1970) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• Weyr Search - (1967) - novella by Anne McCaffrey
• Message Found in a Copy of Flatland - (1983) - shortstory by Rudy Rucker
• The Cold Equations - (1954) - novelette by Tom Godwin
• The Land Ironclads - (1903) - novelette by H. G. Wells
• The Hole Man - (1974) - shortstory by Larry Niven
• Atomic Power - (1934) - shortstory by John W. Campbell, Jr.
• Stop Evolution in Its Tracks! - (1988) - shortstory by John Sladek
• The Hungry Guinea Pig - (1930) - shortstory by Miles J. Breuer, M.D.
• The Very Slow Time Machine - (1978) - novelette by Ian Watson
• The Beautiful and the Sublime - (1986) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• "The Author of the Acacia Seeds" and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics - (1974) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Heat of Fusion - (1984) - shortstory by John M. Ford
• Dolphin's Way - (1964) - shortstory by Gordon R. Dickson
• All the Hues of Hell - (1987) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• Occam's Scalpel - (1971) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• giANTS - (1979) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
• Time Fuze - (1954) - shortstory by Randall Garrett
• Desertion - (1944) - shortstory by Clifford D. Simak
• Kyrie - (1968) - shortstory by Poul Anderson
• The Person from Porlock - (1947) - shortstory by Raymond F. Jones
• Day Million - (1966) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl
• The Cage of Sand - (1962) - novelette by J. G. Ballard
• The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats - (1976) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• In the Year 2889 - (1889) - shortstory by Jules Verne
• Surface Tension - (1952) - novelette by James Blish
• No, No, Not Rogov! - (1959) - shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
• In a Petri Dish Upstairs - (1978) - novelette by George Turner
• With the Night Mail - (1905) - novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• The Longest Science-Fiction Story Ever Told - (1966) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Pi Man - (1959) - shortstory by Alfred Bester
• Relativistic Effects - (1982) - novelette by Gregory Benford
• Making Light - (1981) - shortstory by James P. Hogan
• The Last Question - (1956) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• The Indefatigable Frog - (1953) - shortstory by Philip K. Dick
• Chromatic Aberration - (1984) - novelette by John M. Ford
• The Snowball Effect - (1952) - shortstory by Katherine MacLean
• The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck - (1978) - novelette by Hilbert Schenck
• Tangents - (1986) - shortstory by Greg Bear
• Johnny Mnemonic - (1981) - shortstory by William Gibson
• What Continues, What Fails... - (1991) - novelette by David Brin
• Mammy Morgan Played the Organ, Her Daddy Beat the Drum - (1990) - novella by Michael F. Flynn
• Bookworm, Run! - (1966) - novelette by Vernor Vinge
• Appendix: Another Path Through the Book - (1994) - essay by Kathryn Cramer

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