num_pages: 990
description: Featuring more than sixty groundbreaking short stories by modern science fiction's most important and influential writers, The Ascent of Wonder offers a definitive and incisive exploration of the SF genre's visionary core.From Poe to Pohl, Wells to Wolfe, and Verne to Vinge, this hefty anthology fully charts the themes, trends, thoughts, and traditions that comprise the challenging yet rich literary form known as "hard SF."
language: English
title: The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF
titlecomplete: The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF
genres: Literature, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories, Anthologies, Short Story Collection, Hard Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 237
series: Pern 
awards: awardedAt: -63129600000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novella, awardedAt: -94665600000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novella
publisher: Orb Books