The Legend Book of Science Fiction

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The Legend Book of Science Fiction

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Cover of first edition
Author edited by Gardner Dozois
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre Science fiction
Publisher Legend
Publication date
1991
Media type Print (hardcover)
Pages vii, 672 pp.
ISBN 0-7126-4861-5

The Legend Book of Science Fiction is an anthology of science fiction short works edited by Gardner Dozois. It was first published in hardcover and trade paperback by Legend in July 1991. The first American edition was issued in hardcover under the variant title Modern Classics of Science Fiction by St. Martin’s Press in February 1992, with a trade paperback edition following from the same publisher in February 1993; the same firm also produced a hardcover book club edition together with the Science Fiction Book Club in April 1992. [1]

In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts by different authors. In genre fiction, anthology is used to categorize collections of shorter works such as short stories and short novels, by different authors, each featuring unrelated casts of characters and settings, and usually collected into a single volume for publication.

Science fiction genre of fiction

Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, and extraterrestrial life. Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a "literature of ideas".

Gardner Dozois American science fiction editor

Gardner Raymond Dozois was an American science fiction author and editor. He was the founding editor of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies (1984–present) and was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine (1984–2004), garnering multiple Hugo and Locus Awards for those works almost every year. He also won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story twice. He was inducted to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on June 25, 2011.

Contents

Summary

The book collects twenty-six novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, together with a preface and afterword by the editor.

Contents

"The Country of the Kind" is a science fiction short story by American writer Damon Knight. It was first published in the February 1956 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and has been reprinted several times, including in In Deep (1963), The Science Fiction Hall of Fame (1976), and The Golden Age of Science Fiction (1981).

Damon Knight American science fiction writer, editor and critic

Damon Francis Knight was an American science fiction author, editor and critic. He is the author of "To Serve Man", a 1950 short story adapted for The Twilight Zone. He was married to fellow writer Kate Wilhelm.

Aristotle and the Gun short story by Lyon Sprague de Camp

"Aristotle and the Gun" is a time travel and alternate history science fiction story by American writer L. Sprague de Camp.

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