- Hardcover: 870 pages
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co. (9 Feb 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0393035468
- ISBN-13: 978-0393035469
- Product Dimensions: 35.1 x 22.9 x 16.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,546,086 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A collection of contemporary North American science fiction by authors including Paol Anderson, Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Samuel R. Delany, Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, Joanna Russ, Theodore Sturgeon, James Tiptree Jr, Gene Wolfe and Roger Zelazny, as well as lesser-known writers.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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A Generous View of SF,
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This review is from: The Norton Book of Science Fiction (Hardcover)
In this anthology, the wide-ranging editors dared to choose the stories they personally thought were important, rather than accepting consensus reality of everyone else's favorites. I like what they chose. Every story is worth reading.
5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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A fantastic collection of Science Fiction short stories.,
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This review is from: The Norton Book of Science Fiction (Hardcover)
This anthology is a great collection of short stories from some of the greatest Science Fiction writers of from 1960-1990. This collection was gathered by one of the premier Science Fiction writers of our lifetime, Ursula K. Le Guin. Each story takes you places you have never dreamed of, and truly makes you think about the world around you.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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A fine collection slightly flawed by ideology,
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This review is from: The Norton Book of Science Fiction (Hardcover)
This is a fine and thoughtful anthology of serious science fiction, compiled mainly by Ursula Le Guin, one of science fiction's finest and most thoughtful voices. As a Brit, I was slightly disappointed by the North American bias -- but the canvas of science fiction is vast, and there must be limitations. That having been said, the book contains more than sixty cracking stories -- and the bulk of science fiction, good and bad, comes from the United States anyway. However, the anthology is flawed by a hang-up about political correctness, which leads to a certain lack of humor. To be sure, it's nice to see a good representation of female authors here, but the emphasis should be on good SF, irrespective of the gender of the author. Happily, the anthology remains just this side of feminist hectoring: after all, I suspect that the publishers would not want to alienate what is probably an overwhelmingly male readership.
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