Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century explained

Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century
Editor:	Orson Scott Card
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Genre:	Science fiction
Publisher:	Ace Books
Pub Date:	2001
Media Type:	Print (Hardcover and paperback)
Pages:	432
Isbn:	0-441-00864-X
Dewey:	813/.087620805 21
Congress:	PS648.S3 M38 2001
Oclc:	47243968

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" by Terry Bisson (1990)
• "A Clean Escape" by John Kessel (1986)
• Tourists" by Lisa Goldstein (1985)
• "One" by George Alec Effinger (1995)