The World Turned Upside Down (anthology) explained

The World Turned Upside Down
Author:	edited by David Drake, Eric Flint and Jim Baen
Cover Artist:	Tom Kidd
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Genre:	Science fiction, fantasy
Publisher:	Baen Books
Release Date:	2005
Media Type:	Print (hardcover)
Pages:	743 pp.
Isbn:	0-7434-9874-7
Dewey:	813.0876208
Congress:	PS648.S3 W647 2005
Oclc:	56617258

The World Turned Upside Down is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy short stories edited by David Drake, Eric Flint and Jim Baen.^[1] It was first published in hardcover and ebook by Baen Books in January 2005; a Science Fiction Book Club edition followed from Baen Books/SFBC in February of the same year. The first paperback edition was issued by Baen in June 2006.

The book collects twenty-nine novellas, novelettes and short stories by various authors, together with a preface by Flint and a short introduction to each story by one of the editors.

Contents

• "Preface" (Eric Flint)
• "Rescue Party" (Arthur C. Clarke)
• "The Menace from Earth" (Robert Heinlein)
• "Code Three" (Rick Raphael)
• "Hunting Problem" (Robert Sheckley)
• "Black Destroyer" (A. E. van Vogt)
• "A Pail of Air" (Fritz Leiber)
• "Thy Rocks and Rills" (Robert Ernest Gilbert)
• "A Gun for Dinosaur" (L. Sprague de Camp)
• "Goblin Night" (James H. Schmitz)
• "The Only Thing We Learn" (C. M. Kornbluth)
• "Trigger Tide" (Wyman Guin)
• "The Aliens" (Murray Leinster)
• "All the Way Back" (Michael Shaara)
• "The Last Command" (Keith Laumer)
• "Who Goes There?" (John W. Campbell)
• "Quietus" (Ross Rocklynne)
• "Answer" (Fredric Brown)
• "The Last Question" (Isaac Asimov)
• "The Cold Equations" (Tom Godwin)
• "Shambleau" (C. L. Moore)
• "Turning Point" (Poul Anderson)
• "Heavy Planet" (Lee Gregor)
• "Omnilingual" (H. Beam Piper)
• "The Gentle Earth" (Christopher Anvil)
• "Environment" (Chester S. Geier)
• "Liane the Wayfarer" (Jack Vance)
• "Spawn" (P. Schuyler Miller)
• "St. Dragon and the George" (Gordon R. Dickson)
• "Thunder and Roses" (Theodore Sturgeon)

Notes and References

1. The covers of some editions reverses the order of Flint’s and Baen’s names; the order given here is based on the title and copyright pages and OCLC.