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Tables of Contents for The Road to Science Fiction
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xiii
Born of Skill and Money
1
6
Born of Man and Woman
4
3
Richard Matheson
Heart of Darkness
7
13
The Luckiest Man in Denv
9
11
C. M. Kornbluth
A Clash of Symbols
20
21
Common Time
22
19
James Blish
Word Magic
41
7
My Boy Friend's Name Is Jello
44
4
Avram Davidson
A Canticle for the Fifties
48
23
The First Canticle
51
20
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The Lodestone Genre
71
15
Nobody Bothers Gus
74
12
Algis Budrys
Inferiority: The Complex Problem
86
30
Flowers for Algernon
89
27
Daniel Keyes
A Question of Identity
116
35
The Moon Moth
119
32
Jack Vance
The View from Outside
151
10
The Library of Babel
154
7
Jorge Luis Borges
Inner Concerns in Outer Space
161
24
From Dune
165
20
Frank Herbert
The Vigor of Traditional SF
185
11
Light of Other Days
188
8
Bob Shaw
Ambiguities and Inscrutabilities
196
13
The First Sally (A), or Trurl's Electronic Bard
199
10
Stanislaw Lem
Entropy and the World View
209
15
The Heat Death of the Universe
211
13
Pamela Zoline
Speculations on Speculative Fiction
224
17
The Planners
227
14
Kate Wilhelm
The Alienness of the Alien
241
16
The Dance of the Changer and the Three
244
13
Terry Carr
The Virtues of Indirection
257
9
The Last Flight of Dr. Ain
260
6
James Tiptree, Jr.
Alice Sheldon
Radical Sensibility
266
11
Where No Sun Shines
269
8
Gardner Dozois
Escape Reading
277
17
The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories
280
14
Gene Wolfe
Understanding Reader Reaction
294
19
Angouleme
298
15
Thomas M. Disch
The Postwar Generation
313
7
Gather Blue Roses
315
5
Pamela Sargent
The Star Trek Syndrome
320
12
With a Finger in My I
322
10
David Gerrold
Of Men, and Women, and Society
332
22
Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand
335
19
Vonda N. McIntyre
Of Novas and Other Stars
354
15
Air Raid
357
12
John Varley
Science Fiction, Aliens, and Alienation
369
13
Uncoupling
373
9
Barry N. Malzberg
Exotic Parables
382
14
Rogue Tomato
385
11
Michael Bishop
The Labor Day Group
396
19
This Tower of Ashes
399
16
George R. R. Martin
Fiction and Science
415
24
Particle Theory
418
21
Edward Bryant
The Anthropology of the Future
439
16
View from a Height
442
13
Joan D. Vinge
Form and Content
455
13
The Word Sweep
458
10
George Zebrowski
Dialectic of History and Transcendence
468
7
The World Science Fiction Convention of 2080
471
4
Ian Watson
Estranging the Everyday
475
11
Abominable
477
9
Carol Emshwiller
Science and Fiction
486
16
Exposures
490
12
Gregory Benford
The Real and the Surreal
502
25
Schrodinger's Kitten
505
22
George Alec Effinger
About the Editor
527