Space Odyssey
an Anthology of Great Science Fiction Stories
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Includes:
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The engine at heartspring's centre by Roger Zelazny
Twillight by John C. Campbell
Mysterious doings in the Metropolitan Museum by Fritz Leiber
The crystal egg by H.G. Wells
The Gioconda of the twilight moon by J.G. Ballard
The tunnel under the world by Frederik Pohl
The coffin cure by Alan E. Nourse
Castaway by Arthur C. Clarke
The lost machine by John Wyndham
"--And he built a crooked house--" by Robert A. Heinlein
The third expedition by Ray Bradbury
The day beofre the revolution by Ursula K. LeGuin
The insect tapes by Michael Scott Rohan
Carrier by Robert Sheckley
Descending by Thomas M. Disch
Abreaction by Theodore Sturgeon
Vault of the beast by A.E. van Vogt
Eurema's dam by R.A. Lafferty
Ghetto by Paul Anderson
Is your child using drugs? Seven ways to recognize a drug addict by Rachel Pollack
The ninth symphony of Ludwig Van Beethoven and other lost songs by Carter Scholz
The electric ant by Philip K. Roth
"Arena" by Fredric Brown
The man who came back by Robert Silverberg
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One of the best collections of SF stories from the 20th century. Wells, Vonnegut, Silverberg... it's a great representation of the genre.
I recently found this anthology in a second-hand bookstore and I remembered just how much it had gripped me when I was a child.
It kicks off with Harrison Bergeron, which is probably the most familiar of Vonnegut's shorts, and
Rachel Pollack's “Is Your Child Using Drugs?” was frankly terrifying when I was younger and hasn't lost much of its power now that I'm old enough to understand what it's all about. The same goes for “Descending”, and “The Engine at Heartspring's Center”.
There's not a story here that I would hesitate to recommend on its own merits.
