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| • "Baby is Three" • "Baby, You Were Great!" • "Balanced Ecology" •"Ballad of Lost C'Mell" • Battle of Corrin • "Bears Discover Fire" •"Beast That Shouted Love. . ." • "Beggars in Spain" • Beginning Place • "Behold the Man" • Between Planets • "The Bicentennial Man" •"Big Front Yard" • "Blind Geometer" •"Blood Music" • "Bloodchild" •"Boobs" • "The Borderland of Sol" •"Born of Man and Woman" •"Born With the Dead •"A Boy and His Dog" • Bring the Jubilee •"Buffalo" •"Burning Chrome" • Butlerian Jihad •"the button, and what you know" • "By Any Other Name" • |
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| "Baby is Three" |
| by Theodore Sturgeon First published in Galaxy, October 1952 Collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. IIA Reprinted as the first part of the novel More Than Human (1953) |
| Preview: A fifteen-year-old boy named Gerard confesses a murder to a psychiatrist, then describes the odd family collected by a wanderer named Lone and developed into Homo gestalt, a complex organism consisting of Baby, a computer, the teleporting black twins Bonnie and Beanie, the telekinetic Jane, and Gerard himself, a telepath who also functions as the organism's control. |
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| "Baby, You Were Great!" |
| by Kate Wilhelm See the Reading Guide |
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| "Balanced Ecology" |
| by James H. Schmitz First published in Analog, March 1965 Collected in The Norton Book of Science Fiction, ed. Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery |
| Preview: The diamondwood forests on the planet Wrake are balanced ecologies consisting of interdependent plants and animals. Offworlders come with a proposition to clear-cut the forest. |
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| "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell" |
| by Cordwainer Smith First published in Galaxy, October 1962 Collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. IIA This story takes place within Smith's Instrumentality universe. |
| Preview: C'Mell, a cat-derived humuncula, one of the underpeople, is a girly girl, an Earthport hostess. She is approached by Jestocost, one of the Lords of Instrumentality, who wants to help the underpeople secure an improvement in their legal status. C'Mell provides a conduit to her leader E-telekeli and helps to conspire to give him access to the Bell, the central computer of the civilization; and she also falls in love with Jestocost. |
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| The Battle of Corrin |
| by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson See the Reading Guide to the Dune Prequels |
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| Bears Discover Fire |
| by Terry Bisson See Reading Guide |
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| "The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" |
| by Harlan Ellison First published in Galaxy, June 1968 Winner of a Hugo for Best Short Fiction |
| Preview: Crosswhen in space and time a culture has found a way to purge itself of madness; but the insanity has to go somewhere. |
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| "Beggars in Spain" |
| by Nancy Kress First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1991 Basis for a novel with the same title Winner of a Nebula for Best Novella |
| Preview: Twins who have been genetically engineered to need no sleep grow up amid increasing resentment agains and violence toward the handful of Sleepless who are not only more successful than normals, but also more joyous. Then an autopsy of a Sleepless who died accidentally reveals an unexpected side effect of the genetic mutation. |
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| The Beginning Place |
| by Ursula K. Le Guin 1980 |
| Preview: Two unhappy 20-year-olds separately stumble through a gateway into a mysterious twilight land where time runs very slowly. |
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| "Behold the Man" |
| by Michael Moorcock First published in New Worlds #166, 1966 See the Reading Guide to "Behold the Man." |
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| Between Planets |
| by Robert A. Heinlein 1951 |
| Preview: Young Don Harvey learns to depend on himself and make his own decisions when he is stranded on Venus in the midst of that planet's rebellion against Earth |
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| "The Bicentennial Man" |
| by Isaac Asimov First published in Stellar Science Fiction #2, February 1976 Winner of a Hugo for Best Novelette Winner of a Nebula for Best Novelette Film version, Bicentennial Man (1999) stars Robin Williams |
| Preview: With the help of the family to whom he originally belonged, robot Andrew Martin embarks on a quest to become human. |
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| "The Big Front Yard" |
| by Clifford D. Simak First published in Astounding in October, 1958 Collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. IIB Winner of the Hugo for Best Novelette |
| Preview: Hiram Taine, a fix-it man and antiques dealer, discovers that improvements are being made to his home and his belongings. Then the front of his house is replaced by an alien landscape. |
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| "The Blind Geometer" |
| by Kim Stanley Robinson First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1987 Winner of a Nebula for Best Novella |
| Preview: In a ruse to steal research, a colleague asks blind mathematician Carlos Nevsky to help deciper the odd speech and drawings of Mary Unser |
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| "Blood Music" |
| by Greg Bear See the Reading Guide. |
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| "Bloodchild" |
| by Octavia Butler See the Reading Guide |
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| "Boobs" |
| by Suzy McKee Charnas First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1989 Winner of a Hugo for Best Short Story |
| Preview: A girl being teased about going through puberty turns into a werewolf and revenges herself on her tormenters. |
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| "The Borderland of Sol" |
| by Larry Niven First published in Analog, January 1975 Winner of a Hugo for Best Novelette |
| Preview: Space ships are disappearing from the solar system. Beowulf Shaeffer agrees to pilot a ship returning to Earth in an attempt to figure out the reason for the disappearance. When the ship gets knocked out of hyperspace he discovers that the hyperdrive is missing. He then visits an asteroid where a gravity expert has harnessed a quantum black hole. |
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| "Born of Man and Woman" |
| by Richard Matheson See the Reading Guide. |
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| "Born With the Dead" |
| by Robert Silverberg First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1974 Collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. IV Winner of a Nebula for Best Novella |
| Preview: In the near future of the story, the dead can elect to undergo a rekindling process and continue ot exist apart from the "warm," i.e., the living, in Cold Towns. Over two years after his wife Sybille's death and rekindling, Jorge Klein is still obsessed with her. |
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| "A Boy and His Dog" |
| by Harlan Ellison First published in New Worlds, April 1969 Winner of a Nebula for Best Novelette Collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. III Made into a film of the same name starring Don Johnson in 1975 |
| Preview: In 2034 a post-apocalyptic Earth is populated by foraging roverpaks and solos and a very few females. Vic, a 15-year-old solo who travels with his telepathic and intelligent dog Blood, meets a girl from one of the civilized areas downunder and has to choose between her and Blood. |
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| Bring the Jubilee |
| by Ward Moore 1955 |
| Preview: After the South wins the War of Southern Independence, the 26 states of the North are left impoverished and powerless. In the 1950s an historian uses a time machine to revisit the crucial battle of Gettysburg where he unwillingly becomes a participant in the events of the past. |
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| "Buffalo" |
| by John Kessel First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 1991 |
| Preview: The author imagines a meeting between his father, a laborer with the Civilian Conservation Corps, and H. G. Wells. |
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| "Burning Chrome" |
| by William Gibson See Reading Guide |
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| The Butlerian Jihad |
| by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson See the Reading Guide to the Dune Prequels |
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| "the button, and what you know" |
| by W. Gregory Stewart First published in Amazing Stories, June 1991 |
| Preview: In this poem, a button on a plate above a plaque which reads ALL OR NOTHING and next to a greying cylinder appears to a recenlty-unemployed human. |
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| "By Any Other Name" |
| by Spider Robinson First published in Analog, November 1976 Winner of a Hugo for Best Novella |
| Preview: Isham Stone is sent ot New York City to assassinate Wendell Carson, the biochemist whose virus caused the collapse of civilization. But Stone is wounded and rescued by Carson and must regain his strength before he can complete his mission. |
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