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The Road to Science Fiction
ed. James Gunn

This series of anthologies is organized to provide the reader with an historical and chronological overview of science fiction from its beginnings to the present day.

The Tables of Contents below contain only references to the complete works published in each anthology; several of these anthologies also include excerpts from longer works.

Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 Volume 5
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Volume 1: From Gilgamesh to Wells
"Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Mellonta Tauta" by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Diamond Lens" by Fitz-James O'Brien
"The Damned Thing" by Ambrose Bierce
"With the Night Mail" by Rudyard Kipling
"The Star" by H. G. Wells
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Volume 2: From Wells to Heinlein
"The New Accelerator" by H. G. Wells
"The Machine Stops" by E. M. Forster
"The People of the Pit" by A. Merritt
"The Red One" by Jack London
"Dagon" by H. P. Lovecraft
"The Tissue-Culture King" by Julian Huxley
"The Revolt of the Pedestrian" by David M. Keller, M. D.
"A Martian Odyssey" by Stanley G. Weinbaum
"Twilight" by John W. Campbell
"Proxima Centauri" by Murray Leinster
"What's It Like Out There?" by Edmond Hamilton
"With Folded Hands" by Jack Williamson
"Hyperpilosity" by L. Sprague de Camp
"The Faithful" by Lester del Rey
"Black Destroyer" by A. E. van Vogt
"Nightfall" by Isaac Asimov
"Requeim" by Robert A. Heinlein
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Volume 3: From Heinlein to Here
"All You Zombies" by Robert A. Heinlein
"Reason" by Isaac Asimov
"Desertion" by Clifford D. Simak
"Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett
"The Million-Year Picnic" by Ray Bradbury
"Thunder and Roses" by Theodore Sturgeon
"That Only a Mother" by Judith Merril
"Brooklyn Project" by William Tenn
"Coming Attraction" by Fritz Leiber
"The Sentinel" by Arthur C. Clarke
"Sail On! Sail On!" by Philip José Farmer
"Critical Factor" by Hal Clement
"Fondly Fahrenheit" by Alfred Bester
"The Cold Equations" by Tom Godwin
"The Game of Rat and Dragon" by Cordwainer Smith
"Pilgrimage to Earth" by Robert Sheckley
"Who Can Replace a Man?" by Brian Aldiss
"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut
"The Streets of Ashkelop" by Harry Harrison
"The Terminal Beach" by J. G. Ballard
"Dolphin's Way" by Gordon R. Dickson
"Slow Tuesday Night" by R. A. Lafferty
"Day Million" by Frederik Pohl
"We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick
"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison
"Aye, and Gomorrah" by Samuel R. Delany
"The Jigsaw Man" by Larry Niven
"Kyrie" by Poul Anderson
"Masks" by Damon Knight
"The Big Flash" by Norman Spinrad
"Sundance" by Robert Silverberg
"When It Changed" by Joanna Russ
"The Engine at Heartspring's Center" by Roger Zelazny
"Tricentennial" by Joe Haldeman
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Volume 4: From Here to Forever
"Born of Man and Woman" by Richard Matheson
"The Luckiest Man in Denv" by C. M. Kornbluth
"Common Time" by James Blish
"My Boyfriend's Name is Jello" by Avram Davidson
"The First Canticle" by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
"Nobody Bothers Gus" by Algis Budrys
"Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
"The Moon Moth" by Jack Vance
"The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges
"Light of Other Days" by Bob Shaw
"The First Sally (A), or Trurl's Electronic Band" by Stanislaw Lem
"The Heat Death of the Universe" by Pamela Zoline
"The Planners" by Kate Wilhelm
"The Dance of the Changer and the Three" by Terry Carr
"The Last Flight of Dr. Ain" by James Tiptree, Jr.
"Where No Sun Shines" by Gardner Dozois
"The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories" by Gene Wolfe
"Angouleme" by Thomas M. Disch
"Gather Blue Roses" by Pamela Sargent
"With a Finger in My I" by David Gerrold
"Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" by Vonda N. McIntyre
"Air Raid" by John Varley
"Uncoupling" by Barry Malzberg
"Rogue Tomato" by Michael Bishop
"The Tower of Ashes" by George R. R. Martin
"Particle Theory" by Edward Bryant
"View from a Height" by Joan D. Vinge
"The Word Sweep" by George Zebrowski
"The World Science Fiction Convention of 2080" by Ian Watson
"Abominable" by Carol Emshwiller
"Exposures" by Gregory Beford
"Schrödinger's Kitten" by George Alec Effinger
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Volume 5: The British Way
"The Doom of London" by Robert Barr
"A Corner in Lightning" by George Griffith
"The Country of the Blind" by H. G. Wells
"As Easy as A. B. C" by Rudyard Kipling
"A Negligible Experiment" by J. D. Beresford
"The Horror of the Heights" by Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Rat" by S. Fowler Wright
"The Great Fog" by H. F. Heard
"Hobbyist" by Eric Frank Russell
"Dreams Are Sacred" by Peter Phillips
"Made in U.S.A." by J. T. McIntosh
"The Star" by Arthur C. Clarke
"The Emptiness of Space" by John Wyndham
"The Voices of Time" by J. G. Ballard
"The Drowned Giant" by J. G. Ballard
"The Totally Rich" by John Brunner
"Mouth of Hell" by David I. Masson
"It's Smart to Have an English Address" by D. G. Compton
"The Muse" by Anthony Burgess
"The Nature of the Catastrophe" by Michael Moorcock
"The Happiest Day of Your Life" by Bob Shaw
"The Power of Time" by Josephine Saxton
"Mason's Life" by Kingsley Amis
"Settling the World" by M. John Harrison
"Working in the Spaceship Yards" by Brian W. Aldiss
"Appearance of Life" by Brian W. Aldiss
"An Infinite Summer" by Christopher Priest
"Custom Fitting" by James White
"Written in Water" by Tanith Lee
"The Great Atlantic Swimming Race" by Ian Watson
"And He Not Busy Being Born" by Brian M. Stableford
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