The Norton Book of Science Fiction

The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 edited by Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery.

Editions

• 1st Ed 1993 ISBN 0-393-03546-8 (cloth)
• 2nd Ed 1999 ISBN 0-393-97241-0 (pbk)

Contents

1993 edition; cover by Dale O'Dell. 67 stories arranged chronologically.

• Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin
• "The Handler" by Damon Knight (1960 short story)
• "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard" by Corwainer Smith (1961 short story)
• "Tandy's Story" by Theodore Sturgeon (1961 novella)
• "2064, or Thereabouts" (as by Darryl R. Groupe) by David R. Bunch (1964 short story)
• "Balanced Ecology" by James H. Schmitz (1965 short story)
• "The House the Blakeneys Built" by Avram Davidson (1965 short story)
• "Over the River and Through the Woods" by Clifford D. Simak (1965 short story)
• "How Beautiful with Banners" by James Blish (1966 short story)
• "Nine Hundred Grandmothers" by R. A. Lafferty (1966 short story)
• "When I Was Miss Dow" by Sonya Dorman (1966 short story)
• "Comes Now the Power" by Roger Zelazny (1966 short story)
• "Day Million" by Frederick Pohl (1966 short story)
• "The Winter Flies" (aka "The Inner Circles") by Fritz Leiber (1967 short story)
• "High Weir" by Samuel R. Delany (1968 short story)
• "Kyrie" by Poul Anderson (1968 short story)
• "For the Sake of Grace" by Suzette Haden Elgin (1969 short story)
• "As Simple as That" by Zenna Henderson (1971 short story)
• "Good News from the Vatican" by Robert Silverberg (1971 short story)
• "Gather Blue Roses" by Pamela Sargent (1972 short story)
• "The Women Men Don't See" by James Tiptree, Jr. (1973 short story)
• "Feather Tigers" by Gene Wolfe (1973 short story)
• "The Mountains of Sunset, the Mountains of Dawn" by Vonda N. McIntyre (1974 short story)
• "The Private War of Private Jacob" by Joe Haldeman (1974 short story)
• "The Warlord of Saturn's Moons" by Eleanor Arnason (1974 short story)
• "Making It All the Way Into the Future on Gaxton Falls of the Red Planet" by Barry N. Malzberg (1974 short story)
• "The New Atlantis" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1975 short tory)
• "A Few Things I Know About Whileaway" by Joanna Russ (1975 excerpt from The Female Man)
• "Strange Wine" by Harlan Ellison (1976 short story)
• "Lollipop and the Tar Baby" by John Varley (1977 short story)
• "Night-Rise" by Katherine MacLean (1978 short story)

Commentary

• Notes from Paul Brians