Road to Science Fiction: From Here to Forever

James Gunn is Emeritus Professor of English at University of Kansas.

The best series, historically arranged, of SF anthologies ever assembled...All six volumes belong in the library of every university, school, and teacher and reader of science fiction. Gunn has gathered stories of importance to the development of SF and stories that represent the best writing of the genre.

• Part 1 INTRODUCTIONPart 2 Born of Skill and MoneyChapter 3 Born of Man and WomanPart 4 Heart of DarknessChapter 5 The Luckiest Man in DenvPart 6 A Clash of SymbolsChapter 7 Common TimePart 8 Word MagicChapter 9 My Boy Friend's Name is JelloPart 10 A Canticle for the FiftiesChapter 11 The First CanticlePart 12 The Lodestone GenreChapter 13 Nobody Bothers GusPart 14 Inferiority: The Complex ProblemChapter 15 Flowers for AlgernonPart 16 A Question of IdentityChapter 17 The Moon MothPart 18 The View From the OutsideChapter 19 The Library of BabelPart 20 Inner Concerns in Outer SpaceChapter 21 From DunePart 22 The Vigor of Traditional SFChapter 23 Light of Other DaysPart 24 Ambiguities and InscrutabilitiesChapter 25 The First Sally (A), or Trurl's Electronic BardPart 26 Entropy and the World WarChapter 27 The Heart and Death of the UniversePart 28 Speculations on Speculative FictionChapter 29 The PlannersPart 30 The Alienness of the AlienChapter 31 The Dance of the Changer and the ThreePart 32 The Virtues of IndirectionChapter 33 The Last Flight of Dr. AinPart 34 Radical SensibilityChapter 35 Where No Sun ShinesPart 36 Escape ReadingChapter 37 The Island of Doctor Death and Other StoriesPart 38 Understanding Reader ReactionChapter 39 AngoulemePart 40 The Postwar GenerationChapter 41 Gather Blue RosesPart 42 The Star Trek SyndromeChapter 43 With a Finger in My IPart 44 Of Men, and Women, and SocietyChapter 45 Of Mist, and Grass, and SandPart 46 Of Novas and Other StarsChapter 47 Air RaidPart 48 Science Fiction, Aliens, and AlienationChapter 49 UncouplingPart 50 Exotic ParablesChapter 51 Rogue TomatoPart 52 The Labor Day GroupChapter 53 This Tower of AshesPart 54 Fiction and ScienceChapter 55 Particle TheoryPart 56 The Anthropology of the FutureChapter 57 View from a HeightPart 58 Form and ContentChapter 59 The Word SweepPart 60 Dialectic of History and TranscendenceChapter 61 The World Science Fiction Convention of 2080Part 62 Estranging the EverydayChapter 63 AbominablePart 64 Science and FictionChapter 65 ExposuresPart 66 The Real and the SurrealChapter 67 Schrödinger's Kitten