num_pages: 394
description: Stories that delight in ideas, holding machine kaleidoscopes up to the sun to see the many shapes of time, man, and destiny. This book is insidious. It is secretly subversive of all that you have believed in the past. It is revolutionary in that it may well make you want to go out and invent better empathy-machines, which repeat truths and amiably shape dreams, such as those strange robots, the motion-picture projector or the record player.Contents: Science Fiction: Before Christ and After 2001 • essay by Ray Bradbury The Gun Without a Bang (1958) / short story by Robert Sheckley [as by Finn O'Donnevan] Crabs Take Over the Island (1969) / short story by Anatoly Dnieprov (trans. of Крабы идут по островуƒ 1958) All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (1968) • poem by Richard Brautigan EPICAC (1950) / short story by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. R. U. R. (1969) / short fiction by Karel ÄŒapek (trans. of R. U. R. 1920) The Human Factor (1963) / short story by David Ely The Thinking Machine (1967) • essay by Isaac Asimov Misbegotten Missionary (1950) / short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of Green Patches) Elegy (1953) / short story by Charles Beaumont Aesthetics of the Moon • poem by Jack Anderson (1935-) Constant Reader (1953) / short story by Robert Bloch Who's There? (1958) / short story by Arthur C. Clarke We'll Never Conquer Space (1962) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke The Sack (1950) / short story by William Morrison Mariana (1960) / short story by Fritz Leiber I Always Do What Teddy Says (1965) / short story by Harry Harrison The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1898) / short story by H. G. Wells Echoes of the Mind (1972) • essay by Arthur Koestler The Reluctant Orchid [Tales from the White Hart] (1956) / short story by Arthur C. Clarke Founding Father (1965) / short story by Isaac Asimov The Wound (1970) / short story by Howard Fast The Sound Machine (1949) / short story by Roald Dahl Love Among the Cabbages (abridged) (1972) • essay by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird Puppet Show (1962) / short story by Fredric Brown Random Sample (1953) / short story by T. P. Caravan On the Wheel (1972) / short story by Damon Knight Orbiter 5 Shows How Earth Looks from the Moon (1969) • poem by May Swenson The King of the Beasts (1964) / short story by Philip Jose Farmer UFO Detective Solves 'em All - Well Almost (1973) • essay by Philip J. Hilts The Good Provider (1952) / short story by Marion Gross A Sound of Thunder (1952) / short story by Ray Bradbury Who's Cribbing? (1953) / short story by Jack Lewis The Third Level (1950) / short story by Jack Finney Speed (1960) • poem by Josephine Miles The Inn Outside the World (1945) / short story by Edmond Hamilton On the Relativity of Time (1949) • essay by Wolfgang Pauli Relativity Wins Again (1972) • essay by Anonymous A Matter of Overtime (1969) • essay by Anonymous There Will Come Soft Rains [The Martian Chronicles] (1950) / short story by Ray Bradbury The Forgotten Enemy (1948) / short story by Arthur C. Clarke Earthmen Bearing Gifts (1960) / short story by Fredric Brown The IFTH of OOFTH (1957) / short story by Walter Tevis Electronic Tape Found in a Bottle (1971) • poem by Olga Cabral Brace Yourself for Another Ice Age (1973) • essay by Douglas Colligan The Census Takers (1956) / short story by Frederik Pohl Disappearing Act (1953) / short story by Alfred Bester Bulletin (1954) / short story by Shirley Jackson Autofac (1955) / novelette by Philip K. Dick Toward the Space Age (1970) • poem by William Stafford Biographies of Authors • essay by uncredited; Science-Fiction Awards • essay by uncredited; Spaceship Earth (1969) • essay by Buckminster Fuller; Pronunciation Key • essay by uncredited; Discussion Questions • essay by uncredited; Index of Authors and Titles • essay by uncredited. .
language: English
title: Science Fact/Fiction
titlecomplete: Science Fact/Fiction
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories
ratings_count: 37
publisher: Scott, Foresman & Company