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The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-90

10 best books like The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-90 (Ursula K. Le Guin): Women of Wonder, the Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s, The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time, Report from Planet Midnight, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume III: The Nebula Winners, The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories, A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume One, The Apex Book of World SF 2, The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy, War, Politics and Superheroes: Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film

Women of Wonder, the Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s
AuthorPamela Sargent
ISBN0156000334
Women of Wonder: The Contemporary Years ... Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s — A companion volume to 'The Classic Years', dispelling the notion that women don't write "real" science fiction, showcasing recent science fiction by women. Here are Octavia E. Butler, Pat Cadigan,...
The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time
AuthorBarry N. Malzberg
ISBN0743458141
A varied collection of short stories involving time travel. Individual stories vary in length from a few pages to several dozen. Tones of the stories range from comedic to light to serious to disturbing.

I am not typically a fan of time travel stories. I find usually that the author has a very...
Report from Planet Midnight
AuthorNalo Hopkinson
ISBN1604864974
Infused with feminist, Afro-Caribbean views of the science fiction and fantasy genres, this collection of offbeat and highly original works takes aim at race and racism in literature. In “Report from Planet Midnight,” at the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts, an alien addresses...
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A
AuthorBen Bova
ISBN0380000385
Eleven Classic Novellas by the most honored authors of science fiction:

This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas between 1929 to 1964 and contains eleven great classics. There is no better anthology that captures the birth of science fiction as a literary...
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume III: The Nebula Winners
AuthorGeorge W. Proctor
ISBN0380793350
ix • Introduction (Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume III) • (1981) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
2 • "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman • (1965) • shortstory by Harlan Ellison
15 • The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth • (1965) • novelette by Roger Zelazny
49...
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
AuthorTom Shippey
ISBN0192803816
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...
A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume One
AuthorAnthony Boucher
Contents:
Re-Birth by John Wyndham (novel).
The Shape of Things That Came by Richard Deming.
Pillar of Fire by Ray Bradbury.
Waldo by Robert A. Heinlein.
The Father-Thing by Philip K. Dick.
The Children's Hour by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore.
Gomez by C. M. Kornbluth.
The...
The Apex Book of World SF 2
AuthorLavie Tidhar
An expedition to an alien planet; Lenin rising from the dead; a superhero so secret he does not exist. In The Apex Book of World SF 2, World Fantasy Award nominated editor Lavie Tidhar brings together a unique collection of stories from around the world. Quiet horror from Cuba and Australia; surrealist...
The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy
AuthorCharles N. Brown
ISBN0060594268
The Barnes & Noble Review
The introduction to The Locus Awards says it all: "This book contains some of the finest science fiction and fantasy short fiction ever written." Included within are some of the best Locus Award winning stories covering the last three decades. From Ursula K. Le Guin...
War, Politics and Superheroes: Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film
AuthorMarc Dipaolo
ISBN0786447184
Superhero adventure comics have a long history of commenting upon American public opinion and government policy, and the surge in the popularity of comics since the events of September 11, 2001, ensures their continued relevance. This critical text examines the seventy-year history of comic book...
Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions
AuthorFredric Jameson
ISBN1844675386
In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful?

Archaeologies of the Future, Jameson’s most substantial work since Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of...
The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
AuthorEdward James
ISBN0521016576
Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is literature which draws on popular culture, and engages in speculation about science, history, and all varieties of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look...
The Road to Science Fiction 3: From Heinlein to Here
AuthorJames E. Gunn
ISBN0810842459
Between an ancient Roman's trip to the moon and the fantastic tales of H.G. Wells lies a journey through time and space and an awesome evolution in scientific thinking. From Gilgamesh's search for immortality to Lucian's odyssey on the moon; from Jonathan Swift's hilarious satire on scientists in...
Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence
AuthorAllen Ginsberg
ISBN0060926112
Published in 1956 as the title poem of Allen Ginsberg's first collection, "Howl" is a prophetic masterpiece that overcame censorship trails to become one of the most widely read poems of the century. The annotated Howl is the poet's own re-creation of the long process of composition of a revolutionary...
Science Fiction 101
AuthorRobert Silverberg
If you read or write science fiction, here is the best introduction to the secrets, the craft and the art of science fiction. Included are thirteen classic works of modern sf; wondrous stories by Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, Jack Vance, Frederick Pohl and many others. If you love science fiction, read...
A Theory of Adaptation
AuthorLinda Hutcheon
ISBN0415967953
Renowned literary scholar Linda Hutcheon explores the ubiquity of adaptations in all their various media incarnations and challenges their constant critical denigration. Adaptation, Hutcheon argues, has always been a central mode of the story-telling imagination and deserves to be studied...
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection
AuthorGardner Dozois
ISBN0312187793
Each year science fiction's premiere short fiction editor, Gardner Dozois, collects dozens of excellent stories in a chunky volume that is eagerly anticipated by readers and writers alike. The anthology also includes an invaluable summation about the state of the science fiction publishing field,...
The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF
AuthorDavid G. Hartwell
ISBN0312855095
Featuring more than sixty groundbreaking short stories by modern science fiction's most important and influential writers, The Ascent of Wonder offers a definitive and incisive exploration of the SF genre's visionary core.From Poe to Pohl, Wells to Wolfe, and Verne to Vinge, this hefty anthology...
The World of Apples
AuthorJohn Cheever
ISBN0446896454
Innocent, old-fashioned, self-aware, Cheever's people are summoned by strange and improbable events to ponder the values they have been taught to trust...decency, common sense, nostalgia, even truth. Stunned by these encounters, they nevertheless survive. A worn-out poet finds peace in his...
Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?
AuthorPatricia C. McKissack
ISBN0590446916
Sojourner Truth, both an African American abolitionist and women's right activist, gave this speech in 1851 at the Women's Convention, Akron, Ohio. In this speech she points out the hyprocrisy of how men of the time are adamant that a woman needs their help and protection, yet as an African American...
Critical Theory and Science Fiction
AuthorCarl Howard Freedman
ISBN0819563994
Carl Freedman traces the fundamental and mostly unexamined relationships between the discourses of science fiction and critical theory, arguing that science fiction is (or ought to be) a privileged genre for critical theory. He asserts that it is no accident that the upsurge of academic interest...
Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes
AuthorAdilifu Nama
ISBN0292726740
Winner, American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 2012

Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, which reveals how black superheroes are not disposable pop products, but rather a fascinating...
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