The Road to Science Fiction: From Here to

Volume 4 From Here to Forever covers the period from 1950-1992, illustrating how science fiction can be as concerned with language and character as much as traditional fiction and anything in the mainstream. Includes stories by Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Matheson, C. M. Kornbluth, Jack Vance, and Pamela Zoline.

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

xiii

Born of Skill and Money

1

(6)

Born of Man and Woman

4

(3)

Richard Matheson

Heart of Darkness

7

(13)

The Luckiest Man in Denv

9

(11)

C. M. Kornbluth

A Clash of Symbols

20

(21)

Common Time

22

(19)

James Blish

Word Magic

41

(7)

My Boy Friend's Name Is Jello

44

(4)

Avram Davidson

A Canticle for the Fifties

48

(23)

The First Canticle

51

(20)

Walter M. Miller, Jr.

The Lodestone Genre

71

(15)

Nobody Bothers Gus

74

(12)

Algis Budrys

Inferiority: The Complex Problem

86

(30)

Flowers for Algernon

89

(27)

Daniel Keyes

A Question of Identity

116

(35)

The Moon Moth

119

(32)

Jack Vance

The View from Outside

151

(10)

The Library of Babel

154

(7)

Jorge Luis Borges

Inner Concerns in Outer Space

161

(24)

From Dune

165

(20)

Frank Herbert

The Vigor of Traditional SF

185

(11)

Light of Other Days

188

(8)

Bob Shaw

Ambiguities and Inscrutabilities

196

(13)

The First Sally (A), or Trurl's Electronic Bard

199

(10)

Stanislaw Lem

Entropy and the World View

209

(15)

The Heat Death of the Universe

211

(13)

Pamela Zoline

Speculations on Speculative Fiction

224

(17)

The Planners

227

(14)

Kate Wilhelm

The Alienness of the Alien

241

(16)

The Dance of the Changer and the Three

244

(13)

Terry Carr

The Virtues of Indirection

257

(9)

The Last Flight of Dr. Ain

260

(6)

James Tiptree, Jr.

Alice Sheldon

Radical Sensibility

266

(11)

Where No Sun Shines

269

(8)

Gardner Dozois

Escape Reading

277

(17)

The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories

280

(14)

Gene Wolfe

Understanding Reader Reaction

294

(19)

Angouleme

298

(15)

Thomas M. Disch

The Postwar Generation

313

(7)

Gather Blue Roses

315

(5)

Pamela Sargent

The Star Trek Syndrome

320

(12)

With a Finger in My I

322

(10)

David Gerrold

Of Men, and Women, and Society

332

(22)

Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand

335

(19)

Vonda N. McIntyre

Of Novas and Other Stars

354

(15)

Air Raid

357

(12)

John Varley

Science Fiction, Aliens, and Alienation

369

(13)

Uncoupling

373

(9)

Barry N. Malzberg

Exotic Parables

382

(14)

Rogue Tomato

385

(11)

Michael Bishop

The Labor Day Group

396

(19)

This Tower of Ashes

399

(16)

George R. R. Martin

Fiction and Science

415

(24)

Particle Theory

418

(21)

Edward Bryant

The Anthropology of the Future

439

(16)

View from a Height

442

(13)

Joan D. Vinge

Form and Content

455

(13)

The Word Sweep

458

(10)

George Zebrowski

Dialectic of History and Transcendence

468

(7)

The World Science Fiction Convention of 2080

471

(4)

Ian Watson

Estranging the Everyday

475

(11)

Abominable

477

(9)

Carol Emshwiller

Science and Fiction

486

(16)

Exposures

490

(12)

Gregory Benford

The Real and the Surreal

502

(25)

Schrodinger's Kitten

505

(22)

George Alec Effinger

About the Editor

527

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