The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume 1-2 by Gordon Van Gelder (Editor)
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Overview: Fantasy & Science Fiction, published since 1949, is one of the most recognized and long-lasting magazine in the speculative fiction field. Racking up an incredible list of awarded authors and stories in the decades that have passed, in 2009 they gleaned their backlists and produced The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: 60th Anniversary Anthology. The number of stories qualifying for the moniker spilling over, in 2014 the magazine decided to publish a second group of stories as ‘the very best of’, naming it Volume 2. The first an all-star anthology, the second, also edited by Gordon van Gelder, possesses just as much impact, history, and sheer enjoyability, and is a welcome retrospective of one of the genre’s bastions. Arranged chronologically, the following are brief summaries of the twenty-seven stories selected.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: 60th Anniversary Anthology
Collecting more than two dozen stories that originally appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction—the premiere speculative fiction magazine—this extraordinary anthology celebrates 60 years of top-notch genre fiction.
This retrospective volume includes "All Summer in a Day,” Ray Bradbury’s lasting tale of what happened on one special day; "Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, describing what happened to Charlie Gordon when he was made into a genius; "Harrison Bergeron," Kurt Vonnegut’s absurdist cautionary tale of mandatory equality; and "The Electric Ant" by Philip K. Dick, concerning what Garson Poole learned after the accident that hospitalized him. This remarkable collection also features some of the most highly acclaimed, award-winning authors, including Neil Gaiman, Harlan Ellison, Shirley Jackson, Peter S. Beagle, Karen Joy Fowler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Theodore Sturgeon, and Roger Zelazny.
Hand-picked by the magazine’s current editor, this is an unmatched assemblage of appealing, first-rate fiction.
Contents:
Introduction by Gordon Van Gelder
"Of Time and Third Avenue" by Alfred Bester
"All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury
"One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts" by Shirley Jackson
"A Touch of Strange" by Theodore Sturgeon
"Eastward ho!" by William Tenn
"Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut
"This Moment of the Storm" by Roger Zelazny
"The Electric Ant" by Philip K. Dick
"The Deathbird" by Harlan Ellison
"The Women Men Don’t See" by James Tiptree, Jr.
"I See You" by Damon Knight
"The Gunslinger" by Stephen King
"The Dark" by Karen Joy Fowler
"Buffalo" by John Kessel
"Solitude" by Ursula K. Le Guin
"Mother Grasshopper" by Michael Swanwick
"macs" by Terry Bisson
"Creation" by Jeffrey Ford
"Other People" by Neil Gaiman
"Two Hearts" by Peter S. Beagle
"Journey into the Kingdom" by M. Rickert
"The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate" by Ted Chiang
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume 2
Fantasy & Science Fiction continues to showcase some of the most famous authors writing in any genre. The magazine jumpstarted the careers of bestselling authors such as Roger Zelazny, Bruce Sterling, and Jane Yolen and continues to champion bold new crossover talents including Paolo Bacigalupi and Ken Liu.
Now drawing upon F&SF’s impressive history of classic and contemporary tales, this extraordinary companion anthology revisits and expands upon sixty-five years’ worth of top-notch fiction. These broad-ranging, award-winning tales appeal to readers of genre fiction and beyond, exploring alternate history, time travel, urban fantasy, virtual reality, modern myth, horror, interstellar travel, epic fantasy, mystery, and space opera.
Contents:
"The Third Level" by Jack Finney
"Fondly Fahrenheit" by Alfred Bester
"The Cosmic Charge Account" by C. M. Kornbluth
"The Anything Box" by Zenna Henderson
"The Prize of Peril" by Robert Sheckley
"—All You Zombies—" by Robert A. Heinlein
"Green Magic" by Jack Vance
"The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth" by Roger Zelazny
"Narrow Valley" by R. A. Lafferty
"Sundance" by Robert Silverberg
"Attack of the Giant Baby" by Kit Reed
"The Hundredth Dove" by Jane Yolen
"Jeffty Is Five" by Harlan Ellison
"Salvador" by Lucius Shepard
"The Aliens Who Knew, I mean, Everything" by George Alec Effinger
"Rat" by J. P. Kelly
"The Friendship Light" by Gene Wolfe
"The Bone Woman" by Charles de Lint
"The Lincoln Train" by Maureen McHugh
"Maneki Neko" by Bruce Sterling
"Winemaster" by Robert Reed
"Suicide Coast" by M. John Harrison
"Have Not Have" by Geoff Ryman
"The People of Sand & Slag" by Paolo Bacigalupi
"Echo" by Liz Hand
"The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates" by Stephen King
"The Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu
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