Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century

Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century

Editor	Orson Scott Card
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Ace Books
Publication date	2001
Media type	Print (Hardcover and paperback)
Pages	432
ISBN	0-441-00864-X
OCLC	47243968
Dewey Decimal	813/.087620805 21
LC Class	PS648.S3 M38 2001

Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century (2001) is a science fiction anthology edited by American writer Orson Scott Card. It contains twenty-six stories by different writers.

Contents

The stories in this book are:

The Golden Age

• "Call me Joe" by Poul Anderson (1957)
• "All You Zombies—" by Robert A. Heinlein (1958)
• "Tunesmith" by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (1957)
• "A Saucer of Loneliness" by Theodore Sturgeon (1953)
• "Robot Dreams" by Isaac Asimov (1986)
• "Devolution" by Edmond Hamilton (1936)
• "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke (1953)
• "A Work of Art" by James Blish (1956)
• "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed by Ray Bradbury (1949)

The New Wave

• ""Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison (1965)
• "Eurema's Dam" by R.A. Lafferty (1972)
• "Passengers" by Robert Silverberg (1968)
• "The Tunnel under the World" by Frederik Pohl (1955)
• "Who Can Replace a Man?" by Brian W. Aldiss (1958)
• "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1973)
• "Inconstant Moon" by Larry Niven (1973)

The Media Generation

• "Sandkings" by George R.R. Martin (1979)
• "The Road Not Taken" by Harry Turtledove (1985)
• "Dogfight" by William Gibson and Michael Swanwick (1985)
• "Face Value" by Karen Joy Fowler (1986)
• "Pots" by C. J. Cherryh (1985)
• "Snow" by John Crowley (1985)
• "Rat" by James Patrick Kelly (1986)
• "Bears Discover Fire" (1990) by Terry Bisson
• "A Clean Escape" by John Kessel (1986)
• Tourists" by Lisa Goldstein (1985)
• "One" by George Alec Effinger (1995)