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Book Reviews of The Norton Book of Science Fiction

The Norton Book of Science Fiction
The Norton Book of Science Fiction
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin (Editor), Brian Attebery (Editor)
ISBN-13: 9780393972412
ISBN-10: 0393972410
Publication Date: 6/1/1999
Pages: 870
Rating:
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
Book Type: Paperback
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* 15 ⢠Introduction (The Norton Book of Science Fiction) ⢠essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
* 45 ⢠The Handler ⢠(1960) ⢠shortstory by Damon Knight
* 49 ⢠Alpha Ralpha Boulevard ⢠[The Instrumentality of Mankind] ⢠(1961) ⢠novelette by Cordwainer Smith
* 74 ⢠Tandy's Story ⢠(1961) ⢠novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
* 93 ⢠2064, or Thereabouts ⢠[Moderan] ⢠(1964) ⢠shortstory by David R. Bunch
* 98 ⢠Balanced Ecology ⢠(1965) ⢠shortstory by James H. Schmitz
* 115 ⢠The House the Blakeneys Built ⢠(1965) ⢠shortstory by Avram Davidson
* 125 ⢠Over the River and Through the Woods ⢠(1965) ⢠shortstory by Clifford D. Simak
* 133 ⢠How Beautiful with Banners ⢠(1966) ⢠shortstory by James Blish
* 142 ⢠Nine Hundred Grandmothers ⢠(1966) ⢠shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
* 151 ⢠When I Was Miss Dow ⢠(1966) ⢠shortfiction by Sonya Dorman [as by Sonya Dorman Hess ]
* 161 ⢠Comes Now the Power ⢠(1966) ⢠shortstory by Roger Zelazny
* 166 ⢠Day Million ⢠(1966) ⢠shortstory by Frederik Pohl
* 171 ⢠The Winter Flies ⢠(1967) ⢠shortstory by Fritz Leiber
* 183 ⢠High Weir ⢠(1968) ⢠novelette by Samuel R. Delany
* 201 ⢠Kyrie ⢠(1968) ⢠shortstory by Poul Anderson
* 211 ⢠For the Sake of Grace ⢠[Coyote Jones] ⢠(1969) ⢠novelette by Suzette Haden Elgin
* 231 ⢠As Simple as That ⢠(1971) ⢠shortstory by Zenna Henderson
* 242 ⢠Good News from the Vatican ⢠(1971) ⢠shortstory by Robert Silverberg
* 250 ⢠Gather Blue Roses ⢠(1971) ⢠shortstory by Pamela Sargent
* 255 ⢠The Women Men Don't See ⢠(1973) ⢠novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
* 280 ⢠Feather Tigers ⢠(1973) ⢠shortstory by Gene Wolfe
* 287 ⢠The Mountains of Sunset, the Mountains of Dawn ⢠(1974) ⢠shortstory by Vonda N. McIntyre
* 300 ⢠The Private War of Private Jacob ⢠(1974) ⢠shortstory by Joe Haldeman
* 305 ⢠The Warlord of Saturn's Moons ⢠(1974) ⢠shortstory by Eleanor Arnason
* 313 ⢠Making It All the Way into the Future on Gaxton Falls of the Red Planet ⢠(1974) ⢠shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
* 317 ⢠The New Atlantis ⢠(1975) ⢠novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
* 337 ⢠A Few Things I Know about Whileaway ⢠(1974) ⢠shortfiction by Joanna Russ
* 350 ⢠Strange Wine ⢠(1976) ⢠shortstory by Harlan Ellison
* 357 ⢠Lollipop and the Tar Baby ⢠[Eight Worlds] ⢠(1977) ⢠novelette by John Varley
* 376 ⢠Night-Rise ⢠(1978) ⢠shortstory by Katherine MacLean
* 386 ⢠Frozen Journey ⢠(1980) ⢠shortstory by Philip K. Dick
* 402 ⢠Precession ⢠(1980) ⢠shortstory by Edward Bryant
* 412 ⢠Elbow Room ⢠(1980) ⢠novelette by Marion Zimmer Bradley
* 427 ⢠Tauf Aleph ⢠(1981) ⢠novelette by Phyllis Gotlieb
* 445 ⢠Exposures ⢠(1981) ⢠shortstory by Gregory Benford
* 457 ⢠The Gernsback Continuum ⢠(1981) ⢠shortstory by William Gibson
* 466 ⢠The Start of the End of the World ⢠(1981) ⢠shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
* 477 ⢠Schrödinger's Plague ⢠(1982) ⢠shortstory by Greg Bear
* 485 ⢠". . .The World As We Know't." ⢠(1982) ⢠shortstory by Howard Waldrop
* 501 ⢠The Byrds ⢠(1983) ⢠shortstory by Michael G. Coney
* 513 ⢠Speech Sounds ⢠(1983) ⢠shortstory by Octavia E. Butler
* 525 ⢠Distant Signals ⢠(1984) ⢠shortstory by Andrew Weiner
* 538 ⢠The Lucky Strike ⢠(1984) ⢠novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
* 569 ⢠The Life of Anybody ⢠(1984) ⢠shortstory by Robert Sheckley
* 571 ⢠Interlocking Pieces ⢠(1984) ⢠shortstory by Molly Gloss
* 577 ⢠The War at Home ⢠(1985) ⢠shortstory by Lewis Shiner
* 580 ⢠The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things ⢠(1985) ⢠shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
* 591 ⢠Snow ⢠(1985) ⢠shortstory by John Crowley
* 605 ⢠After the Days of Dead-Eye 'Dee ⢠(1985) ⢠shortstory by Pat Cadigan
* 616 ⢠The Bob Dylan Tambourine Software & Satori Support Services Consortium, Ltd. ⢠(1985) ⢠shortstory by Michael Bishop
* 628 ⢠His Vegetable Wife ⢠(1986) ⢠shortstory by Pat Murphy
* 633 ⢠The Brains of Rats ⢠(1986) ⢠shortstory by Michael Blumlein
* 647 ⢠Out of All Them Bright Stars ⢠(1985) ⢠shortstory by Nancy Kress
* 654 ⢠Rat ⢠(1986) ⢠shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
* 665 ⢠America ⢠[The Mormon Sea] ⢠(1987) ⢠novelette by Orson Scott Card
* 689 ⢠Schwarzschild Radius ⢠(1987) ⢠shortstory by Connie Willis
* 705 ⢠Stable Strategies for Middle Management ⢠(1988) ⢠shortstory by Eileen Gunn
* 716 ⢠Kirinyaga ⢠[Kirinyaga] ⢠(1988) ⢠novelette by Mike Resnick
* 733 ⢠A Midwinter's Tale ⢠(1988) ⢠shortstory by Michael Swanwick
* 746 ⢠(Learning About) Machine Sex ⢠(1988) ⢠shortstory by Candas Jane Dorsey
* 762 ⢠We See Things Differently ⢠(1989) ⢠novelette by Bruce Sterling
* 780 ⢠Half-Life ⢠(1989) ⢠shortstory by Paul Preuss
* 794 ⢠Homelanding ⢠(1989) ⢠shortstory by Margaret Atwood
* 797 ⢠And the Angels Sing ⢠(1990) ⢠shortstory by Kate Wilhelm
* 814 ⢠Aunt Parnetta's Electric Blisters ⢠(1990) ⢠shortfiction by Diane Glancy
* 819 ⢠Midnight News ⢠(1990) ⢠shortstory by Lisa Goldstein
* 830 ⢠Invaders ⢠(1990) ⢠novelette by John Kessel
* 851 ⢠Notes on the Authors ⢠essay by uncredited
BriVerKatBro88 avatar reviewed The Norton Book of Science Fiction on + 290 more book reviews
* 15 ⢠Introduction (The Norton Book of Science Fiction) ⢠essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
* 45 ⢠The Handler ⢠(1960) ⢠shortstory by Damon Knight
* 49 ⢠Alpha Ralpha Boulevard ⢠[The Instrumentality of Mankind] ⢠(1961) ⢠novelette by Cordwainer Smith
* 74 ⢠Tandy's Story ⢠(1961) ⢠novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
* 93 ⢠2064, or Thereabouts ⢠[Moderan] ⢠(1964) ⢠shortstory by David R. Bunch
* 98 ⢠Balanced Ecology ⢠(1965) ⢠shortstory by James H. Schmitz
* 115 ⢠The House the Blakeneys Built ⢠(1965) ⢠shortstory by Avram Davidson
* 125 ⢠Over the River and Through the Woods ⢠(1965) ⢠shortstory by Clifford D. Simak
* 133 ⢠How Beautiful with Banners ⢠(1966) ⢠shortstory by James Blish
* 142 ⢠Nine Hundred Grandmothers ⢠(1966) ⢠shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
* 151 ⢠When I Was Miss Dow ⢠(1966) ⢠shortfiction by Sonya Dorman [as by Sonya Dorman Hess ]
* 161 ⢠Comes Now the Power ⢠(1966) ⢠shortstory by Roger Zelazny
* 166 ⢠Day Million ⢠(1966) ⢠shortstory by Frederik Pohl
* 171 ⢠The Winter Flies ⢠(1967) ⢠shortstory by Fritz Leiber
* 183 ⢠High Weir ⢠(1968) ⢠novelette by Samuel R. Delany
* 201 ⢠Kyrie ⢠(1968) ⢠shortstory by Poul Anderson
* 211 ⢠For the Sake of Grace ⢠[Coyote Jones] ⢠(1969) ⢠novelette by Suzette Haden Elgin
* 231 ⢠As Simple as That ⢠(1971) ⢠shortstory by Zenna Henderson
* 242 ⢠Good News from the Vatican ⢠(1971) ⢠shortstory by Robert Silverberg
* 250 ⢠Gather Blue Roses ⢠(1971) ⢠shortstory by Pamela Sargent
* 255 ⢠The Women Men Don't See ⢠(1973) ⢠novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
* 280 ⢠Feather Tigers ⢠(1973) ⢠shortstory by Gene Wolfe
* 287 ⢠The Mountains of Sunset, the Mountains of Dawn ⢠(1974) ⢠shortstory by Vonda N. McIntyre
* 300 ⢠The Private War of Private Jacob ⢠(1974) ⢠shortstory by Joe Haldeman
* 305 ⢠The Warlord of Saturn's Moons ⢠(1974) ⢠shortstory by Eleanor Arnason
* 313 ⢠Making It All the Way into the Future on Gaxton Falls of the Red Planet ⢠(1974) ⢠shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
* 317 ⢠The New Atlantis ⢠(1975) ⢠novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
* 337 ⢠A Few Things I Know about Whileaway ⢠(1974) ⢠shortfiction by Joanna Russ
* 350 ⢠Strange Wine ⢠(1976) ⢠shortstory by Harlan Ellison
* 357 ⢠Lollipop and the Tar Baby ⢠[Eight Worlds] ⢠(1977) ⢠novelette by John Varley
* 376 ⢠Night-Rise ⢠(1978) ⢠shortstory by Katherine MacLean
* 386 ⢠Frozen Journey ⢠(1980) ⢠shortstory by Philip K. Dick
* 402 ⢠Precession ⢠(1980) ⢠shortstory by Edward Bryant
* 412 ⢠Elbow Room ⢠(1980) ⢠novelette by Marion Zimmer Bradley
* 427 ⢠Tauf Aleph ⢠(1981) ⢠novelette by Phyllis Gotlieb
* 445 ⢠Exposures ⢠(1981) ⢠shortstory by Gregory Benford
* 457 ⢠The Gernsback Continuum ⢠(1981) ⢠shortstory by William Gibson
* 466 ⢠The Start of the End of the World ⢠(1981) ⢠shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
* 477 ⢠Schrödinger's Plague ⢠(1982) ⢠shortstory by Greg Bear
* 485 ⢠". . .The World As We Know't." ⢠(1982) ⢠shortstory by Howard Waldrop
* 501 ⢠The Byrds ⢠(1983) ⢠shortstory by Michael G. Coney
* 513 ⢠Speech Sounds ⢠(1983) ⢠shortstory by Octavia E. Butler
* 525 ⢠Distant Signals ⢠(1984) ⢠shortstory by Andrew Weiner
* 538 ⢠The Lucky Strike ⢠(1984) ⢠novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
* 569 ⢠The Life of Anybody ⢠(1984) ⢠shortstory by Robert Sheckley
* 571 ⢠Interlocking Pieces ⢠(1984) ⢠shortstory by Molly Gloss
* 577 ⢠The War at Home ⢠(1985) ⢠shortstory by Lewis Shiner
* 580 ⢠The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things ⢠(1985) ⢠shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
* 591 ⢠Snow ⢠(1985) ⢠shortstory by John Crowley
* 605 ⢠After the Days of Dead-Eye 'Dee ⢠(1985) ⢠shortstory by Pat Cadigan
* 616 ⢠The Bob Dylan Tambourine Software & Satori Support Services Consortium, Ltd. ⢠(1985) ⢠shortstory by Michael Bishop
* 628 ⢠His Vegetable Wife ⢠(1986) ⢠shortstory by Pat Murphy
* 633 ⢠The Brains of Rats ⢠(1986) ⢠shortstory by Michael Blumlein
* 647 ⢠Out of All Them Bright Stars ⢠(1985) ⢠shortstory by Nancy Kress
* 654 ⢠Rat ⢠(1986) ⢠shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
* 665 ⢠America ⢠[The Mormon Sea] ⢠(1987) ⢠novelette by Orson Scott Card
* 689 ⢠Schwarzschild Radius ⢠(1987) ⢠shortstory by Connie Willis
* 705 ⢠Stable Strategies for Middle Management ⢠(1988) ⢠shortstory by Eileen Gunn
* 716 ⢠Kirinyaga ⢠[Kirinyaga] ⢠(1988) ⢠novelette by Mike Resnick
* 733 ⢠A Midwinter's Tale ⢠(1988) ⢠shortstory by Michael Swanwick
* 746 ⢠(Learning About) Machine Sex ⢠(1988) ⢠shortstory by Candas Jane Dorsey
* 762 ⢠We See Things Differently ⢠(1989) ⢠novelette by Bruce Sterling
* 780 ⢠Half-Life ⢠(1989) ⢠shortstory by Paul Preuss
* 794 ⢠Homelanding ⢠(1989) ⢠shortstory by Margaret Atwood
* 797 ⢠And the Angels Sing ⢠(1990) ⢠shortstory by Kate Wilhelm
* 814 ⢠Aunt Parnetta's Electric Blisters ⢠(1990) ⢠shortfiction by Diane Glancy
* 819 ⢠Midnight News ⢠(1990) ⢠shortstory by Lisa Goldstein
* 830 ⢠Invaders ⢠(1990) ⢠novelette by John Kessel
* 851 ⢠Notes on the Authors ⢠essay by uncredited