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The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories [Audiobook]

Posted By: tarantoga
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories [Audiobook]

Tom Shippey (Editor), "The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories" [Audiobook]
Publisher: Oxford University Press | ISBN: n/a | 2003 | MP3@40 kbps | ~26:53:00 | 466 Mb

These 30 SF tales, arranged chronologically from 1903 to 1990, cover a typically wide and uneven range in the genre. The omission of some authors might raise eyebrows–notably Isaac Asimov, Harlan Ellison, and Robert A. Heinlein, all known for their short fiction. Only three women are represented: C. L. Moore (whose The Piper's Son is written under the collaborative pseudonym Lewis Padgett), Ursula K. Le Guin and Racoona Sheldon (Alice Sheldon, better known under the James Tiptree Jr. pseudonym). Only Sheldon's The Screwfly Solution, a devastatingly scary story about misogyny gone mad, dates from the past 20 years, during which women have made serious progress in the genre; thus, the final third of the book is less representative than it might be. Standouts include Le Guin's 0. Henry-esque The Dowry of the Angyar, Gene Wolfe's frightening How the Whip Came Back, H. G. Wells's anticipation of modern weapons in The Land Ironclads, Thomas M. Disch's insightful Problems of Creativeness, George R.R. Martin's fascinating religious study The Way of Cross and Dragon and Frederik Pohl's The Tunnel Under the World, which opens with the now-classic line, On the morning of June 15th, Guy Burckhardt woke up screaming out of a dream.

01) Introduction by Tom Shippey
02) The Land Ironclads by H. G. Wells
03) Finis by Frank L. Pollack
04) As Easy as ABC by Rudyard Kipling
05) The Metal Man by Jack Williamson
06) A Martian Odyssey by Stanley G. Weinbaum
07) Night John W. Campbell, Jr.
08) Desertion by Clifford D. Simak
09) The Piper's Son by Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore
10) The Monster by A. E. van Vogt
11) The Second Night of Summer by James H. Schmitz
12) Second Dawn by Arthur C. Clarke
13) Crucifixus Etiam by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
14) The Tunnel Under the World by Frederik Pohl
15) Who Can Replace a Man? by Brian W. Aldiss
16) Billennium by J. G. Ballard
17) The Ballad of Lost C'Mell by Cordwainer Smith
18) Semley's Necklace by Ursula K. Le Guin
19) How Beautiful With Banners by James Blish
20) A Criminal Act by Harry Harrison
21) Problems of Creativeness by Thomas M. Disch
22) How the Whip Came Back by Gene Wolfe
23) Cloak of Anarchy by Larry Niven
24) A Thing of Beauty by Norman Spinrad
25) The Screwfly Solution by James Tiptree, Jr.
26) The Way of Cross and Dragon by George R. R. Martin
27) Swarm by Bruce Sterling
28) Burning Chrome by William Gibson
29) Silicon Muse by Hilbert Schenck
30) Karl and the Ogre by Paul J. McAuley
31) Piecework by David Brin