Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction (646 page)

“Pirates of the Gorm” 202

Poe, Edgar Allan 69

Pohl, Frederick 293

Pratchett, Terry 818

“Pretty Boy Crossover” 742

Princess of Mars, A 6

“Prize of Peril, The” 500

“Quest for St. Aquin, The” 340

“Rachel in Love” 809

Raine, Craig 819

“Ranks of Bronze” 758

“Rat Race” 407

“Red Brain, The” 226

Reed, Kit 633

Resnick, Mike 819

“Riverworld” 387

Roberts, Keith 637

Robinson, Kim Stanley 824

Robinson, Spider 645

“Robot Poems” 67

“Roll of the Dice, A” 892

“Rose for Ecclesiastes, A” 696

R.U.R. 45

Russ, Joanna 648

Russell, Eric Frank 488

“Sail 25” 507

“Sandman, the Tinman and the BettyB, The” 752

“Sargasso of Space, The” 276

“Saul’s Death” 595

Sawyer, Robert J. 969

Schachner, Nat 202

Schmitz, James H. 491

Schweitzer, Darrell 974

“Scientific Romance” 974

“Senses Three and Six” 720

“Sentinel, The” 357

“Seven American Nights” 880

“Shadow Catcher” 892

“Shambleau” 283

Sheckley, Robert 500

Shelly, Mary Wollstonecraft 76

Shepard, Lucius 832

Silverberg, Robert 660

Simak, Clifford D. 295

Skylark of Space, The 208

Slonczewski, Joan 850

Smith, Clark Ashton 208

Smith, Cordwainer 504

Smith, E.E. “Doc” 209

“Soldier, Ask Not” 375

Somtow, S. P. 853

“Souls” 648

Spinrad, Norman 663

“Split Light” 773

“Standing Room Only” 932

“Star and the Rockets, The” 869

“Star-Treader, The” 207

Sterling, Bruce 858

“Stoker and the Stars, The” 352

Stross, Charles 975

Sturgeon, Theodore 299

“Surface Tension” 333

Swanwick, Michael 865

“That Only a Mother” 433

“They’re Made out of Meat” 914

“Thing from—Outside, The” 61

“Think Like a Dinosaur” 776

“Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream” 935

“Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne” 598

“Time Machine, The” 88

Tiptree Jr., James 666

Toomer, Jean 82

Turtledove, Harry 869

“Ugly Chickens, The” 871

“Uncle Joshua and the Grooglemen” 930

“Uncommon Sense” 361

van Vogt, A. E. 305

Vance, Jack 507

Varley, John 670

Verne, Jules 82

Vinge, Vernor 681

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt 694

Waldrop, Howard 871

Wandrei, Donald A. 226

We 106

Weinbaum, Stanley G. 314

Wells, H.G. 88

“Weyr Search” 608

“What Wolves Know” 633

“When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth” 920

“White Trains” 847

“Who Goes There?” 116

Williamson, Jack 319

Willis, Connie 877

“Wings of Night, The” 263

“Witches of Karres, The” 491

Wolfe, Gene 880

“Yillian Way, The” 602

Zamyatin, Evgenii 106

Zelazny, Roger 696

Stories Listed by Date of First Appearance

1826 — Last Man, The — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

1849 — Feb — “Mellonta Tauta,” by Edgar Allan Poe

1872 — Erewhon — Samuel Butler

1877 — Jul — Off on a Comet! — Jules Verne

1895 — Jan — “Time Machine, The,” by H.G. Wells

1912 — “Star-Treader, The,” by Clark Ashton Smith

1912 — Feb — Princess of Mars, A — Edgar Rice Burroughs

1921 — We — Evgenii Zamyatin

— (First English translation in 1924)

1921 — Jan — R.U.R. — Karel Čapek

— (First English translation in 1923)

1923 — “Lunar Baedeker,” by Mina Loy

1923 — May — “Her Lips Are Copper Wire,” by Jean Toomer

1923 — Aug — “Afterwards,” by Clark Ashton Smith

1926 — Apr — “The Thing from—Outside,” by George Allan England

1927 — Oct — “Red Brain, The,” by Donald A. Wandrei

1928 — Aug — Skylark of Space, The — E.E. “Doc” Smith

1928 — Aug — “Armageddon—2419 A.D.,” by Philip Francis Nowlan

1928 — Dec — “Metal Man, The,” by Jack Williamson

1929 — May — “Diabolical Drug, The,” by Clare Winger Harris

1930 — Mar — “Gostak and the Doshes, The,” by Miles J. Breuer

1930 — May — “Harbour Whistles,” by H. P. Lovecraft

1931 — Sep — “Sargasso of Space, The,” by Edmond Hamilton

1932 — May — “Pirates of the Gorm,” by Nat Schachner

1932 — “Robot Poems,” by D. H. Lawrence

1933 — Mar — “Man Who Awoke, The,” by Laurence Manning

1933 — Nov — “Shambleau,” by C. L. Moore

1934 — Jul — “Martian Odyssey, A,” by Stanley G. Weinbaum

1934 — Dec — “Old Faithful,” by Raymond Z. Gallun

1936 — Feb — “At the Mountains of Madness,” by H. P. Lovecraft

1937 — Jul — “By the Waters of Babylon,” by Stephen Vincent Benét

1938 — Apr — “Nightmare for Future Reference,” by Stephen Vincent Benét

1938 — Aug — “Who Goes There?,” by John W. Campbell

1939 — May — “Almuric,” by Robert E. Howard

1939 — Jul — “Black Destroyer,” by A. E. van Vogt

1941 — Apr — “Microcosmic God,” by Theodore Sturgeon

1941 — Sep — “Nightfall,” by Isaac Asimov

1942 — Mar — “Wings of Night, The,” by Lester Del Rey

1944 — Jun — “Arena,” by Fredric Brown

1945 — May — “First Contact,” by Murray Leinster

1945 — Sep — “Uncommon Sense,” by Hal Clement

1947 — Feb — “Green Hills of Earth, The,” by Robert A. Heinlein

1948 — Jun — “That Only a Mother,” by Judith Merril

1949 — Dec — “Witches of Karres, The,” by James H. Schmitz

1950 — Jul — “Little Black Bag, The,” by C. M. Kornbluth

1950 — Jul — “Born of Man and Woman,” by Richard Matheson

1951 — Mar — “Duel on Syrtis,” by Poul Anderson

1951 — Apr — “Sentinel, The,” by Arthur C. Clarke

1951 — Nov — “Quest for St. Aquin, The,” by Anthony Boucher

1952 — Apr — “Last Days of Shandakor, The,” by Leigh Brackett

1952 — Oct — “Surface Tension,” by James Blish

1952 — Nov — “Martian Way, The,” by Isaac Asimov

1952 — Nov — “Bring the Jubilee,” by Ward Moore

1953 — Jan — “Defenders, The,” by Philip K. Dick

1953 — Feb — “Loo Ree,” by Zenna Henderson

1953 — Jul — “Bad Day for Sales, A,” by Fritz Leiber

1953 — Aug — “All Cats Are Grey,” by Andre Norton

1954 — Mar — “Death of a Spaceman,” by Walter M. Miller Jr.

1954 — Aug — “Cold Equations, The,” by Tom Godwin

1954 — Oct — “Fondly Fahrenheit,” by Alfred Bester

1955 — May — “Allamagoosa,” by Eric Frank Russell

1955 — Jul — “Rat Race,” by Frank Herbert

1955 — Oct — “Game of Rat and Dragon, The,” by Cordwainer Smith

1956 — Feb — “Country of the Kind, The,” by Damon Knight

1956 — Mar — “Gun for Dinosaur, A,” by L. Sprague de Camp

1958 — Feb — “Graveyard of Dreams,” by H. Beam Piper

1958 — May — “Or All the Seas with Oysters,” by Avram Davidson

1958 — May — “Prize of Peril, The,” by Robert Sheckley

1959 — Feb — “Stoker and the Stars, The,” by Algis Budrys

1962 — “Door Through Space, The,” by Marion Zimmer Bradley

1962 — Jan — “Yillian Way, The,” by Keith Laumer

1962 — Jan — “2 B R 0 2 B,” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

1962 — Feb — “Golden Horn, The,” by Edgar Pangborn

1962 — May — “Next Logical Step, The,” by Ben Bova

1962 — Aug — “Sail 25,” by Jack Vance

1963 — Jun — “Demi-Urge, The,” by Tom Disch

1963 — Nov — “Rose for Ecclesiastes, A,” by Roger Zelazny

1964 — Oct — “Soldier, Ask Not,” by Gordon R. Dickson

1965 — May — “Man in His Time,” by Brian W. Aldiss

1966 — Jan — “Riverworld,” by Philip José Farmer

1966 — Feb — “Day Million,” by Frederick Pohl

1966 — Apr — “Lady Margaret, The,” by Keith Roberts

1966 — Oct — “Neutron Star,” by Larry Niven

1967 — Feb — “Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne,” by R. A. Lafferty

1967 — Jun — “Driftglass,” by Samuel R. Delany

1967 — Oct — “Weyr Search,” by Anne McCaffrey

1968 — Dec — “Passengers,” by Robert Silverberg

1971 — Sep — “No Direction Home,” by Norman Spinrad

1972 — Jun — “Hero,” by Joe Haldeman

1974 — “Her Smoke Rose Up Forever,” by James Tiptree Jr.

1974 — Nov — “If This Is Winnetka, You Must Be Judy,” by F. M. Busby

1975 — Aug — “Ranks of Bronze,” by David Drake

1977 — “The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps,” by Gene Wolfe

1977 — Jul — “Jeffty Is Five,” by Harlan Ellison

1978 — Mar — “Persistence of Vision, The,” by John Varley

1978 — Mar — “Seven American Nights,” by Gene Wolfe

1979 — “Martian Sends A Postcard Home, A,” by Craig Raine

1980 — Apr — “Grotto of the Dancing Deer,” by Clifford D. Simak

1980 — Aug — “Ugly Chickens, The,” by Howard Waldrop

1981 — Sep — “Going Under,” by Jack Dann

1982 — Jan — “Souls,” by Joanna Russ

1982 — Jun — “Melancholy Elephants,” by Spider Robinson

1982 — Jul — “Letter from the Clearys, A,” by Connie Willis

1983 — Jan — “Saul’s Death,” by Joe Haldeman

1983 — Jun — “Blood Music,” by Greg Bear

1984 — Jun — “Bloodchild,” by Octavia Butler

1984 — Jun — “Lucky Strike, The,” by Kim Stanley Robinson

1986 — Jan — “Pretty Boy Crossover,” by Pat Cadigan

1986 — Apr — “Fiddling for Water Buffaloes,” by S. P. Somtow

1986 — Jun — “Senses Three and Six,” by David Brin

1987 — Apr — “Rachel in Love,” by Pat Murphy

1987 — Apr — “White Trains,” by Lucius Shepard

1989 — Apr — “Edge of the World,” by Michael Swanwick

1989 — May — “Mountains of Mourning, The,” by Lois McMaster Bujold

1989 — Nov — “Dogwalker,” by Orson Scott Card

1989 — Dec — “Little Worker,” by Paul Di Filippo

1989 — Dec — “For I Have Touched the Sky,” by Mike Resnick

1990 — Aug — “Bears Discover Fire,” by Terry Bisson

1991 — Jan — “Buffalo,” by John Kessel

1991 — Jan — “City of Truth,” by James Morrow

1991 — Apr — “They’re Made out of Meat,” by Terry Bisson

1992 — Jan — “First Contact with the Gorgonids, The,” by Ursula K. Le Guin

1992 — Jul — “Barnacle Bill the Spacer,” by Lucius Shepard

1993 — Sep — “Uncle Joshua and the Grooglemen,” by Debra Doyle and — James D. Macdonald

1994 — Mar — “Good with Rice,” by John Brunner

1994 — Dec — “Split Light,” by Lisa Goldstein

1995 — Apr — “Lincoln Train, The,” by Maureen F. McHugh

1995 — Jun — “Think Like a Dinosaur,” by James Patrick Kelly

1995 — Aug — “Microbe,” by Joan Slonczewski

1995 — Dec — “Hand to Hand,” by Elizabeth Moon

1996 — Jan — “Hardened Criminals, The,” by Jonathan Lethem

1996 — Jan — “Bicycle Repairman,” by Bruce Sterling

1997 — Feb — “Three Hearings on the Existence of — Snakes in the Human Bloodstream,” by James Alan Gardner

1997 — Mar — “Noble Mold,” by Kage Baker

1997 — May — “Firefly Tree, The,” by Jack Williamson

1997 — Aug — “Standing Room Only,” by Karen Joy Fowler

1999 — Oct — “Habit of Waste, A,” by Nalo Hopkinson

2000 — Jun — “Muffin Migration, The,” by Alan Dean Foster

2000 — Jul — “Roll of the Dice, A,” by Catherine Asaro

2001 — Jun — “Lobsters,” by Charles Stross

2001 — Jul — “Hell is the Absence of God,” by Ted Chiang

2001 — Nov — “Fast Times at Fairmont High,” by Vernor Vinge

2002 — May — “Sandman, the Tinman and the — BettyB, The,” by C. J. Cherryh

2002 — May — “Madonna of the Maquiladora,” by Gregory Frost

2003 — Jan — “At the Conclusion of an Interstellar War” Darrell Schweitzer

2003 — Jul — “Alternate Histories,” by Darrell Schweitzer

2004 — Jun — “My Mother, Dancing,” by Nancy Kress

2004 — Sep — “Griots of the Galaxy,” by Andrea Hairston

2004 — Sep — “Death and What Comes Next,” by Terry Pratchett

2005 — Feb — “Little Faces,” by Vonda N. McIntyre

2005 — Nov — “Scientific Romance,” by Darrell Schweitzer

2006 — Jan — “Flashes,” by Robert J. Sawyer

2006 — Jun — “Bow Shock,” by Gregory Benford

2006 — Aug — “When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth,” by Cory Doctorow

2007 — Sep — “What Wolves Know,” by Kit Reed

2008 — Feb — “Evil Robot Monkey,” by Mary Robinette Kowal

2008 — Nov — Dance Dance Revolution — Cathy Park Hong