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| • "Wang's Carpets" • "War of the Worlds" • "The Way of Cross and Dragon" •"Weapon Shop" • "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" •Well of Lost Plots • "Weyr Search"• "What Happened to Auguste Clarot?" •"When It Changed" •"When I Was Miss Dow" • "When This World is All on Fire" •"When We Went to See the End of the World" •"Who Can Replace a Man?" • "Who Goes There?" • "Witches of Karres" •"With Folded Hands" • " Witness" •"Women Men Don't See" •"Word for World is Forest" •"Work of Art" • |
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| "Wang's Carpets" |
| by Greg Bear See the Reading Guide |
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| "The War of the Worlds" |
| by H. G. Wells First published in Pearson's Magazine, April 1897 |
| Preview: Martians landing in the countryside surrounding London cause terror and panic. |
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| "The Way of Cross and Dragon" |
| by George R. R. Martin First published in Omni, June 1979 Winner of a Hugo for Best Short Story |
| Preview: A Knight Inquisitor is sent to a planet to stamp out an heretical sect that has canonized Judas Iscariot; he discovers an organization of Liars. |
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| "The Weapon Shop" |
| by A.E. van Vogt See the Reading Guide. |
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| "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" |
| by Philip K. Dick See the Reading Guide. |
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| The Well of Lost Plots |
| by Jasper Fforde See the Reading Guide to the Thursday Next Novels |
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| "Weyr Search" |
| by Anne McCaffrey Hugo for Best Novella Became the first section of the novel Dragonflight |
| Preview: The story of the cyclical arrival of the deadly threads on Pern is now only a legend. Weyrleader F'lar comes to the vast holdings of the greedy lord Fax in search of a Wyrwoman to ride the Dragonqueen. Meanwhile Lessa plots to overthrow Lord Fax and reclaim her birthright. |
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| "What Happened to Auguste Clarot?" |
| by Larry Eisenberg First published in Dangerous Visions, 1967 |
| Preview: A journalist in Paris searches for a missing chemist. |
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| "When It Changed" |
| by Joanna Russ See Reading Guide |
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| "When I Was Miss Dow" |
| by Sonya Dorman Hess See Reading Guide |
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| "When This World is All on Fire" |
by William Sanders |
| Preview: In the dean future after ecological disaster, a tribal policeman is drawn to a squatter's daughter with a beautiful singing voice. |
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| "When We Went to See the End of the World" |
| by Robert Silverberg Originally published in Universe 2, 1972 Collected in Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts, ed. Heather Masri |
| Preview: Several couple travel to witness the end of the world, but each sees a dfferent way for the world to end. |
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| "Who Can Replace a Man?" |
| by Brian Aldiss See the Reading Guide |
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| "Who Goes There?" |
| by Don A. Stuart First published in Astounding in August 1938 Collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. IIA This story was filmed twice as The Thing, in 1951 and in 1982. |
| Preview: In Antarctica an expedition discovers an ancient wrecked spaceship and a frozen alien. When the alien thaws, it demonstrates the capability to absorb and emulate any being it comes into contact with. |
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| "The Witches of Karres" |
| by James R. Schmitz First published in Astounding, December 1949 Collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. IIB |
Preview: A ship's captain rescues three young girls from slavery in order to return them to their homeworld. The girls are witches, each with a different power which they use to both cause trouble for their rescuer and to solve his problems. With minor changes this story became the first few chapters of a novel of the same name published in 1966. |
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| "With Folded Hands" |
| by Jack Williamson See the Reading Guide |
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| "Witness" |
| by Walter Jon Williams First published in Wild Cards, ed. George R. R. Martin, 1987 |
| Preview: Superheroes are called to testify before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. |
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| "The Women Men Don't See" |
| by James Tiptree, Jr. See the Reading Guide |
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| "The Word for World is Forest" |
| by Ursula K. Le Guin First published in Again, Dangerous Visions, 1972 Winner of a Hugo for Best Novella |
| Preview: Earthmen have colonized the planet Athshe, "voluntarily" enslaved the humanoid inhabitants, called creechies, and are destroying the forests in order to send the wood back to Earth. When a creechie woman is raped and killed by a human, war breaks out. |
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| "A Work of Art" |
| by James Blish First published in Science Fiction Stories, July 1956 |
| Preview: In 2161 a mind sculpture brings the composer Richard Strauss back to life in the body of a healthy man. |
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