The Norton Book of 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 today's 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.

Special Thanks	p. 13
Introduction	p. 15
The Handler	p. 45
Alpha Ralpha Boulevard	p. 49
Tandy's Story	p. 74
2064, or Thereabouts	p. 93
Balanced Ecology	p. 98
The House the Blakeneys Built	p. 115
Over the River and Through the Woods	p. 125
How Beautiful with Banners	p. 133
Nine Hundred Grandmothers	p. 142
When I Was Miss Dow	p. 151
Comes Now the Power	p. 161
Day Million	p. 166
The Winter Flies	p. 171
High Weir	p. 183
Kyrie	p. 201
For the Sake of Grace	p. 211
As Simple As That	p. 231
Good News from the Vatican	p. 242
Gather Blue Roses	p. 250
The Women Men Don't See	p. 255
Feather Tigers	p. 280
The Mountains of Sunset, the Mountains of Dawn	p. 287
The Private War of Private Jacob	p. 300
The Warlord of Saturn's Moons	p. 305
Making It All the Way into the Future on Gaxton Falls of the Red Planet	p. 313
The New Atlantis	p. 317
A Few Things I Know About Whileaway	p. 337
Strange Wine	p. 350
Lollipop and the Tar Baby	p. 357
Night-Rise	p. 376
Frozen Journey	p. 386
Precession	p. 402
Elbow Room	p. 412
Tauf Aleph	p. 427
Exposures	p. 445
The Gernsback Continuum	p. 457
The Start of the End of the World	p. 466
Schrodinger's Plague	p. 477
"... the World, as we Know 't"	p. 485
The Byrds	p. 501
Speech Sounds	p. 513
Distant Signals	p. 525
The Lucky Strike	p. 538
The Life of Anybody	p. 569
Interlocking Pieces	p. 571
The War at Home	p. 577
The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things	p. 580
Snow	p. 591
After the Days of Dead-Eye 'Dee	p. 605
The Bob Dylan Tambourine Software and Satori Support Services Consortium, Ltd.	p. 616
His Vegetable Wife	p. 628
The Brains of Rats	p. 633
Out of All Them Bright Stars	p. 647
Rat	p. 654
America	p. 665
Schwarzschild Radius	p. 689
Stable Strategies for Middle Management	p. 705
Kirinyaga	p. 716
A Midwinter's Tale	p. 733
(Learning About) Machine Sex	p. 746
We See Things Differently	p. 762
Half-Life	p. 780
Homelanding	p. 794
And the Angels Sing	p. 797
Aunt Parnetta's Electric Blisters	p. 814
Midnight News	p. 819
Invaders	p. 830
Notes on the Authors	p. 851
Acknowledgments	p. 863
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