The Big Book of Science Fiction

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By Jeff VanderMeer & Ann Vandermeer

Publisher Description

Quite possibly the GREATEST science-fiction collection of ALL TIME—past, present, and FUTURE! • "Nearly 1,200 pages of stories by the genre’s luminaries, like H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke and Ursula K. Le Guin, as well as lesser-known authors." —The New York Times Book Review

What if life was never-ending? What if you could change your body to adapt to an alien ecology? What if the Pope was a robot? Spanning galaxies and millennia, this must-have anthology showcases classic contributions from H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Octavia Butler, and Kurt Vonnegut alongside a century of the eccentrics, rebels, and visionaries who have inspired generations of readers. Within its pages, find beloved worlds of space opera, hard SF, cyberpunk, the new wave, and more. Learn the secret history of science fiction, from literary icons who wrote SF to authors from over 25 countries, some never before translated into English. In THE BIG BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION, literary power couple Ann and Jeff VanderMeer transport readers from Mars to Mechanopolis, planet Earth to parts unknown. Read the genre that predicted electric cars, travel to the moon, and the modern smart phone. We’ve got the worlds if you’ve got the time.

Including:
· Legendary tales from Isaac Asimov and Ursula LeGuin!
· An unearthed sci-fi story from W.E.B. DuBois!
· The first publication of the work of cybernetic visionary David R. Bunch in 20 years!
· A rare and brilliant novella by Chinese international sensation Liu Cixin!

Plus:
· Aliens!
· Space battles!
· Robots!
· Technology gone wrong!
· Technology gone right!

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6 Reviews

4.0

Kevin

Created about 1 year ago

Quinn Dewey

Created almost 2 years ago

Emannuel

Created over 2 years ago

“Passei mais de dois anos lendo esse livro. Quase sempre pegando um conto ou outro entre as outras leituras que ia fazendo. Ele realmente é grande como o título diz, e faz um panorama muito mais amplo da ficção científica do que costumamos ver em antologias do tipo. Tem conto do Brasil, de outros países da América Latina, da Finlândia, do oriente médio, da China, uma quantidade de contos japoneses que podia ser uma antologia por si só. Me parece uma leitura que ajuda muito quem quiser ter uma perspectiva do gênero nos últimos 100 anos, mais ou menos. Os VanderMeer são os meus antologistas contemporâneos preferidos e chega a ser uma pena que, após as duas dedicadas à fantasia que publicaram depois deste livro, não editem mais coletâneas desse tipo. O conto que mais gostei provavelmente foi "Surface Tension", que jamais teria conhecido sem esse livro. Mas o nível de escrita, em geral, é impecável. Chega a ser uma pena que tenha levado tanto tempo para lê-lo pois já não lembro dos detalhes de muitos deles, mas anima para uma futura releitura.”

CharmCityProf

Created about 4 years ago

laurensboookshelf

Created over 5 years ago

“I read it for class and have no strong opinions on it. As it's hard to review something that is made up of dozens of other stories, I'll leave my review there.”

About Jeff VanderMeer

ANN VANDERMEER currently serves as an acquiring fiction editor for Tor.com, Cheeky Frawg Books, and weirdfictionreview.com. She was the editor-in-chief for Weird Tales for five years, during which time she was nominated three times for the Hugo Award, winning one. Along with multiple nominations for the Shirley Jackson Award, she also has won a World Fantasy Award and a British Fantasy Award for co-editing The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories. Other projects have included Best American Fantasy, three Steampunk anthologies, and a humor book, The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals. Her latest anthologies include The Time Traveler’s Almanac, Sisters of the Revolution, an anthology of feminist speculative fiction and The Bestiary, an anthology of original fiction and art.

JEFF VENDERMEER's most recent fiction is the New York Times-bestselling Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance), which Entertainment Weekly included on its list of the top ten novels of 2014 and which prompted the New Yorker to call the author “the weird Thoreau.” The series has been acquired by publishers in 34 other countries. Paramount Pictures/Scott Rudin Productions acquired the movie rights and Annihilation won both the Nebula Award and Shirley Jackson Award for best novel. VanderMeer’s nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Atlantic.com, and the Los Angeles Times. A three-time winner of the World Fantasy Award, he has also edited or coedited many iconic fiction anthologies, taught at the Yale Writers’ Conference and the Miami International Book Fair, lectured at MIT, Brown, and Library of Congress, and serves as the co-director of Shared Worlds, a unique teen writing camp located at Wofford College. His forthcoming novel is Borne.