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The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories [Paperback]

Tom Shippey (Editor)
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Publication Date: 23 Jan 2003 | ISBN-10: 0192803816 | ISBN-13: 978-0192803818 | Edition: New Ed
'As good an introduction to SF as you can buy.' Iain Banks

The definitive collection of the twentieth-century's most characteristic genre-from H.G. Wells's prophetic vision of technological warfare to contemporary cyberspace, and up-to-the-minute myths of genetic engineering.

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  • Paperback: 624 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; New Ed edition (23 Jan 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0192803816
  • ISBN-13: 978-0192803818
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 3.4 x 19.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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"Tom Shippey is a major contributor in science fiction, as well as in medieval and language studies, and his new anthology not only is useful and important, it illuminates the field with the editor's insights and selections."--James Gunn, Director, The Center for the Study of Science Fiction, University of Kansas


"A vindication for all of us [science fiction fans] who have had to defend the genre as deserving serious consideration...This book collects 30 classic science-fiction stories by some of the field's msot famous authors....It's a great selection of intelligent and intriguing work."--The ClevelandPlain Dealer


"A collection that makes us feel the uniqueness of this discipline so freshly is doing its job."--Fort Worth Star-Telegram


About the Author

Tom Shippey inherited J. R. R. Tolkien's Chair of Medieval English Language at the University of Leeds, and now holds the Walter J. Ong Chair of Humanities at St. Louis University, Missouri, specializing in Medieval Literature, Old English Arthurian and Romance Literature, Fantasy, and Science Fiction. He has written and edited numerous books, including J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (2001).
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5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect SF-introduction. 23 Jan 2003
By Jason Parkes #1 HALL OF FAME
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This collection was initially issued in 1992; in 2003 it is a welcome reissue. At this moment in time SF is more accessible than ever- with the reissue of short-story collections like this & the brilliant SF-masterworks series that features authors like PK Dick, JG Ballard, Richard Matheson, James Blish & Theodore Sturgeon. As this book demonstrates, SF is a wide church- frequently not the space fiction/star trek stereotype perpetuated by people who perpetuate such things...

Shippey offers a brilliant introduction, noting that the book can't cover anything (though a second volume might be a great idea!)- there is also a select bibliography- which I feel is a little incomplete (for that see books like Trillion Year Spree & The Encyclopedia of SF- listed in this rudimentary bibliography).

The 30 odd stories are what this collection is about, and reason why this collection is such great value. All of the stories can be read in short sessions- whether communting, accelerating towards sleep or waiting, waiting, waiting...Then the reader can decide which kind of SF they most enjoy & pursue other works by that writer (most probably reissued by people like SF masterworks!). The collection opens with key SF-writer (if mild proponent of eugenics), HG Wells and ends bang up to date on Dave Brin. Between we get stories from such key SF-writers as Arthur C Clarke, Ursula K Le Guin, James Blish, Gene Wolfe, Bruce Sterling & William Gibson. Favourites include John W. Campbell Jr's Night, Brian Aldiss's Who Can Replace a Man? (definite AI-related territory & a place where cybernetic notions are beginning to develop- into the new wave) & JG Ballard's hilarious Billennium- which takes a Kafka-inspired look at over-population (and stems from the brilliant Terminal Beach collection).

Shippey's collection is the perfect SF-introduction, or if you are quite au fait with the genre- an obligatory purchase. It is also 500plus pages evidence that in SF, the short-story is still as important as the novel- and the place where the latter usually stem from...

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4.0 out of 5 stars a good read 16 Jun 2010
By A. Rea
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I have enjoyed most of the stories. quite a few are short enough to read all the way through at bed-time
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2.0 out of 5 stars Not a good experience. 11 Dec 2012
By Davy Graham
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Returned to science fiction after some decades but did not finish one story in this book. Could be quality, content or a major change in me. Probably the latter.
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