TY - BOOK AU - Warrick,Patricia S. AU - Greenberg,Martin Harry AU - Olander,Joseph D. TI - Science fiction: contemporary mythology : the SFWA-SFRA anthology SN - 0060116269 AV - PN3433.5 .S35 1978 PY - 1978/// CY - New York PB - Harper & Row KW - Science fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Science fiction, American KW - Science fiction, English KW - Fiction KW - lcgft KW - Novels N1 - BIBINDX; Introduction; Mythic patterns; Patricia Warrick --; Science fiction myths and their ambiguity; Patricia Warrick; "Goat song"; Poul Anderson --; The remarkable adventure; Philip José Farmer and Beverly Friend; "Brightside crossing"; Alan E. Nourse; "Before Eden"; Arthur C. Clarke; "The game of rat and dragon"; Cordwainer Smith --; Beyond reality's barriers : new dimensions; Robert Silverberg and Charles Elkins; "Common time"; James Blish; "The shadow of space"; Philip José Farmer --; Aliens; Pamela Sargent and James Gunn; "Specialist"; Robert Sheckley; "The dance of the charger and the three"; Terry Carr; "The father-thing"; Philip K. Dick --; The scientist; L. Sprague de Camp and Thomas D. Clareson; "A scientist divides"; Donald Wandrei; "Memorial"; Theodore Sturgeon; "The hole man"; Larry Niven --; The machine and the robot; Isaac Asimov with selections by David Martwell; "Twilight"; John W. Campbell, Jr.; "The new father Christmas"; Brian W. Aldiss; "Computers don't argue"; Gordon R. Dickson --; More than human? : androids, cyborgs and others; George Zebrowski and Patricia Warrick; "Nine lives"; Ursula K. Le Guin; "Masks"; Damon Knight; "Sea change"; Thomas N. Scortia; "Day million"; Frederik Pohl --; The city; Theodore R. Cogwell and Ralph S. Clem; "Billenium"; J.G. Ballard; "A happy day in 2381"; Robert Silverberg --; Utopias and dystopias; Frederik Pohl, Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander; "New York A.D. : 2660"; Hugo Gernsback; "Coming attraction"; Fritz Leiber; "The luckiest man in Denv'"; C.M. Kornbluth --; Apocalypse; Jack Williamson and David Ketterer; "The game of blood and dust"; Roger Zelazny; "All the last wars at once"; George Alec Effinger N2 - Essays by noted science-fiction writers and critics on the nine major themes of the genre are accompanied by representative, exemplary stories ER -