The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories - ed. Tom Shippey

Written by ed. Tom Shippey
Read by Eric Meyers
Format: MP3
Unabridged

The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
Edited by Tom Shippey

Encode: mp3 - 40kbps, 2 channel, 16 kHz
Total # of Tracks: 33
Total Play time: 26:53:10

Anthology #079
There are lots of great stories here but The Monster by A. E. van Vogt is probably my favorite in this collection.
Enjoy

Hellblazer1138

Publisher’s Summary

This is the definitive collection of the twentieth-century’s most characteristic genre-science fiction. The tales are organized chronologically to give readers a sense of how the genre’s range, vitality, and literary quality have evolved over time. Each tale offers a unique vision, an altered reality, a universe all its own. Readers can sample H.G. Well’s 1903 story “The Land Ironclads” (which predicted the stalemate of trench warfare and the invention of the tank), Jack Williamson’s “The Metal Man,” a rarely anthologized gem written in 1928, Clifford D. Simak’s 1940s classic, “Desertion,” set on “the howling maelstrom that was Jupiter,” Frederik Pohl’s 1955 “The Tunnel Under the World” (with its gripping first line, “On the morning of June 15th, Guy Burckhardt woke up screaming out of a dream”), right up to the current crop of writers, such as cyberpunks Bruce Sterling and William Gibson, whose 1982 story “Burning Chrome” foreshadows the idea of virtual reality, and David Brin’s “Piecework,” written in 1990. In addition, Shippey provides an informative Introduction, examining the history of the genre, its major themes, and its literary techniques.

Stories in this Collection:

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 and 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