edited by Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebury

The Norton Book of Science Fiction

A breathtaking collection of contemporary science fiction—67 stories in all. Includes gems by Poul Anderson, Margaret Atwood, Philip K. Dick, Joanna Russ, Theodore Sturgeon, Gene Wolfe, and Roger Zelazny—as well as startling work by today's rising stars.

In the tradition of other groundbreaking Norton anthologies, Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Atteberry's Norton Book of Science Fiction provides the first truly comphrehensive and cohereent look at the best of contemporary science fiction. Its 67 stories, all published since 1960, offer compelling evidence that science fiction is the source of the most thoughtful, imaginative - indeed literary - fiction being written today.

Aficionados will find rarely anthologized gems by their favorite authors - Poul Anderson, Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Samuel R. Delany, Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, Joanna Russ, Theodore Sturgeon, James Tiptree, Jr., Gene Wolf, Roger Zelazny - as well as startling work by today's rising stars. Newcomers will delight in the sophisticated range of voices probing the nature of reality and the condition of the human spirit. Readers of all stripes will enjoy Le Guin's robust and insightful indroduction.

"As a selection, [this] is almost as good as it could be...[the stories] amount to the best definitions we now have of the new science fiction of the new dusks, or dawns."—John Clute, The Times Literary Supplement