Modern Classics of Science Fiction

“The best stories are timeless. Long years from now the stories here may still touch someone, cause that person to blink, and put the book down for a second, and stare off through the hallow air, and shirver in wonder.”

Contents
1 • Preface (The Legend Book of Science Fiction) • (1991) • essay by Gardner Dozois
7 • The Country of the Kind • (1956) • shortstory by Damon Knight
22 • Aristotle and the Gun • (1958) • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
59 • The Other Celia • (1957) • shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
78 • Casey Agonistes • (1958) • shortstory by Richard McKenna [as by Richard M. McKenna ]
90 • Mother Hitton’s Littul Kittons • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
116 • The Moon Moth • (1961) • novelette by Jack Vance
157 • The Golden Horn • [Tales of a Darkening World] • (1962) • novelette by Edgar Pangborn
196 • The Lady Margaret • [Pavane] • (1966) • novelette by Keith Roberts (aka The Lady Anne)
238 • This Moment of the Storm • (1966) • novelette by Roger Zelazny
273 • Narrow Valley • (1966) • shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
287 • Driftglass • (1967) • shortstory by Samuel R. Delany
309 • The Worm That Flies • (1968) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
331 • The Fifth Head of Cerberus • (1972) • novella by Gene Wolfe
397 • Nobody’s Home • (1972) • shortstory by Joanna Russ
416 • Her Smoke Rose Up Forever • (1974) • novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
437 • The Barrow • (1976) • shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
447 • Particle Theory • (1977) • shortstory by Edward Bryant
472 • The Ugly Chickens • (1980) • novelette by Howard Waldrop
499 • Going Under • (1981) • novelette by Jack Dann [as by Jack M. Dann ]
521 • Salvador • (1984) • shortstory by Lucius Shepard
543 • Pretty Boy Crossover • (1986) • shortstory by Pat Cadigan
557 • The Pure Product • (1986) • novelette by John Kessel
580 • The Winter Market • (1985) • novelette by William Gibson
603 • Chance • (1986) • novelette by Connie Willis
637 • The Edge of the World • (1989) • shortstory by Michael Swanwick
654 • Dori Bangs • (1989) • shortstory by Bruce Sterling
671 • Afterword (The Legend Book of Science Fiction) • (1991) • essay by Gardner Dozois