Science fiction :  contemporary mythology : the SFWA-SFRA anthology / 
editors, Patricia Warrick, Martin Harry Greenberg, Joseph Olander. 
 - xviii, 476 pages ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Mythic patterns /  Science fiction myths and their ambiguity /  "Goat song" /  The remarkable adventure /  "Brightside crossing" /  "Before Eden" /  "The game of rat and dragon" /  Beyond reality's barriers : new dimensions /  "Common time" /  "The shadow of space" /  Aliens /  "Specialist" /  "The dance of the charger and the three" /  "The father-thing" /  The scientist /  "A scientist divides" /  "Memorial" /  "The hole man" /  The machine and the robot /  "Twilight" /  "The new father Christmas" /  "Computers don't argue" /  More than human? : androids, cyborgs and others /  "Nine lives" /  "Masks" /  "Sea change" /  "Day million" /  The city /  "Billenium" /  "A happy day in 2381" /  Utopias and dystopias /  "New York A.D. : 2660" /  "Coming attraction" /  "The luckiest man in Denv'" /  Apocalypse /  "The game of blood and dust" /  "All the last wars at once" /  Patricia Warrick --  Patricia Warrick.  Poul Anderson --  Philip José Farmer and Beverly Friend.  Alan E. Nourse ;  Arthur C. Clarke ;  Cordwainer Smith --  Robert Silverberg and Charles Elkins.  James Blish ;  Philip José Farmer --  Pamela Sargent and James Gunn.  Robert Sheckley ;  Terry Carr ;  Philip K. Dick --  L. Sprague de Camp and Thomas D. Clareson.  Donald Wandrei ;  Theodore Sturgeon ;  Larry Niven --  Isaac Asimov with selections by David Martwell.  John W. Campbell, Jr. ;  Brian W. Aldiss ;  Gordon R. Dickson --  George Zebrowski and Patricia Warrick.  Ursula K. Le Guin ;  Damon Knight ;  Thomas N. Scortia ;  Frederik Pohl --  Theodore R. Cogwell and Ralph S. Clem.  J.G. Ballard ;  Robert Silverberg --  Frederik Pohl, Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander.  Hugo Gernsback ;  Fritz Leiber ;  C.M. Kornbluth --  Jack Williamson and David Ketterer.  Roger Zelazny ;  George Alec Effinger.  Introduction: 
<br/><br/> Essays by noted science-fiction writers and critics on the nine major themes of the genre are accompanied by representative, exemplary stories. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0060116269 9780060116262 0060469439 9780060469436 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>76026232  
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GB7904665  bnb 801538319  can 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>(AMICUS)000000440373 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Science fiction--History and criticism<br/>Science fiction, American<br/>Science fiction, English
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Fiction<br/>Novels
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN3433.5  / .S35 1978