Norton anthology science fiction

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Add some now ». Didn't like Richard Bausch's "Byron the Lyron. Too emo! I Liked Capote's "Miriam. I liked Shirley Jackson's, "The Lottery," though it was a disturbing story of human cruelty.

Didn't like Bartholeme's "Me and Miss Mandible. That's a nightmare! I will borrow this book from the library again in the future. May 25, Megan rated it really liked it Shelves: required-comps. No joke. Sep 15, spike marlin rated it really liked it. It took me almost 4 years to read all the short stories in this book. There were good ones and not so good ones.

Pick it up and start reading you will enjoy Manet of the stories in it. Textbook for class. Good short stories. Jun 01, Kayla rated it really liked it Shelves: owned. It was for school, but it wasn't bad It was for school, but it wasn't bad Aug 28, Kay rated it it was amazing. I added this particular collection to my bookshelf because it's the best summation of short fiction canon that I've come across.

Of course, that is not to say that these are the only short stories worth reading, but it has the widest variety and spans the most time.

It was also comes with biographies of the authors and footnotes. My personal favorites of this collection include "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce, "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver, and Philip Roth's "Conversion of t I added this particular collection to my bookshelf because it's the best summation of short fiction canon that I've come across.

The book also includes essays and interviews from the authors either on specific stories or on writing in general. Jul 20, aisha rated it really liked it Shelves: onpause. Feb 21, Alex rated it it was amazing.

All I get to read these days is what I'm teaching, and I'm so lucky to get to teach a senior elective on reading and writing short stories. We're going to read as much of this book as possible, and I don't think there's a story in it that doesn't belong. I'd add thousands more, but this is as good a place as any for them to get a real taste of my favorite art form. View 1 comment.

Jan 12, Chory rated it it was amazing Shelves: read-for-school. Yet another in my collection of Norton Anthologies—a veritable mountain of them at his point. This one is the standard for a reason…everything you're looking for that is in the mainstream i.

For everything else too-new, too avant-garde , look somewhere else. I've read less than a quarter of this anthology, but I'll already say that it's brilliant. Or, perhaps every anthology of fiction is this brilliant. It's got bits of everything. It's like One Hundred Years of Solitude distilled into its purest spirit, fit onto just a few pages.

Great anthology. Definitely something for every type and kind of reader. Some from authors you'll recognize and others you may not be familiar with yet. Loved that the authors are in alphabetical order - means you can read the stories without them being framed in a time period or by gender or genre or any other designation.

Worthwhile to have on your shelf and read again and again. Jun 25, Jonathan rated it it was amazing. One of those college text books I just couldn't sell back- this collection is made up of some of the most notable pieces of literature I have studied and loved throughout my life including Young Goodman Brown, The Littoral Zone, Snow, The Dead, and the list goes on.

Okay, I didn't read all of this book, but I have read all that I am going to be reading. At least for the time being. Some of the stories I read in class were alright some of them even good. However, there were some pretty bad ones as well. A long time favorite of mine because of the variety of stoies offered and the questions at the end of each story.

I took a short stories class in college and I loved reading all of these stories and the discussions that followed. Oct 20, Deana rated it really liked it. Using this in a fiction class now. I like it, especially the thin pages, although it's annoying to carry around - it's a typical Norton. Nov 17, Jessica rated it it was amazing Shelves: teaching , contemporary , favorites.

I just ain't grasped all implications? Very touching story about importance of Change: personal, cultural, psychological, emotional, physical. I wrote no notes. Immediately thought of Blind Assassin. We're in pretty bleak times but when has that NOT been case from perspective of world's thinkers? Still, we believe in hope; it is the best we can believe.

Title's too damned long! Just too impatient or inattentive to Get It? Don't "work" for me. LeGuin pokes fun at an insanely Liberal Govt.

Liked poetic interludes about She gots it goin on--what else is knew? Again: i'm not catching on. Liked it when it was sincere effort at science fiction. Just plain fun. Very Twilight Zoney. A great madness or a great mystery? NOT clever enough for Twilight Zone. Beginning tested my patience but he pulled it off. Beautiful portrait of The Fear of Death? Like it more than the 1 dragon story of hers i ever read. I wouldn't suspect underlying "feminist agenda" if not in THIS anthology.

How could you ever root against Og or the Cnidori? Terribly tiresome beginning. Only barely qualifies as SF--prolly just cuz it's by Gibson. Nothing much happens but provides some interesting commentary on current times. Really like narrator's reaction to the flying. Sadly, turns the famed thought experiments into proof of Magik or something like it. Explores the danger of science. Funny stuff. Stereotype of The Conformist never? Also the Glory Seeking Hypocrite. Terrible title. Pretty sweet idea; see also Blindness of course.

Ending's a no-brainer. Inspired by The Fugitive? Nothing great or bad. It's SO straight-up realistic that i didn't feel the "tension between what 'really' happened and what happens in the story. Amusing, but not enough. Doesn't even qualify as a story. Fantastic ideas that deserve further exploration. IS there more to be said? Prolly hits home better for children of the 'nam era--eg, LeGuin. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind -ish. Rightsized build-up for the payoff. Great suspense. Also reminiscent of Signs.

Bob Dylan Tambourine Software Could anybody really believe that? Quite an affecting portrait of abuse. Selection is definitely "skewed" toward gender issues--as others are skewed toward.. No doubt this'll be considered a Feminist Anthology. Oh, the story A diary-ish collection of gender issues. Is that accurate? Not a happy story but how could it be? Drugs're bad, m'kay? Does Card really believe in Word Magic? Feels like an insulting view of non-honkies but if LeGuin didn't see it that way then i must be misreading.

Another that's hard to qualify as SF. All that for the jokey metaphor-turned-literal "biting someone's head off"?! The end's too allusive for me.

What do i care? I suspect the bio-bit re his formal Euro Higher Education is spozed to sway me that maybe he IS right. Fun intellectual experience at very least. Yet again. It don't touch me. As boring as the worst literary biographies, not SF, an essay against science, not a story, blech. Is LeGuin biased against it?! I like conclusion of creative essay so more praise for IT than for prior efforts in this anthology.

Attempt to depict Indian Way? Yeah, what if? True incentive! What a letdown after her decision. As lame as comic books--intentionally? Goldstein's poking fun at this common SF thought experiment? Best metafiction in book. Decent metaphor for SF.

Dec 20, Cheryl is busier irl atm. The blurb is wrong, it's not comprehensive. As the subtitle and intro. I only skimmed the intro. I appreciate the note that though the stories are arranged by date, a history is not intended. And the note that the editors 'gave The blurb is wrong, it's not comprehensive. And the note that the editors 'gave themselves permission to omit anything "seminal" or "ovular" I am def.

There's very little by LeGuin that I actually 'like', or by Fowler, and I've never heard of that other guy. A "Norton" book of pp. We'll see how many of these I actually like. And how many I already know. And how many I think should be in a Norton anthology. I also find it interesting that the first story is by Damon Knight, best known as an editor. Not having much fun nor being wowed at all until "High Weir" by Samuel R.

Delany , which is giving me something to chew on, to puzzle over. But in a good way Reactions to the Vietnam War are not surprising, but not what I want to read these days. I even have skimmed a few, skipped one or two. But reading the whole book carefully does show that the editors are women. Many of the stories are by authors, and about subjects, not often anthologized in other books I've read. They're not all that different, and there's no reason they shouldn't be familiar to readers of classic SF shorts I'm glad the editors sought them out.

And I'm very glad I'm reading this, whether or not I can actually say that I'm 'enjoying' it or am getting leads to more authors. There are a couple of well-intentioned but exploitive stories, too. OwnVoices is what matters, we've finally realized, and so I can't buy into White guys writing anthropologically about real people from indigenous cultures.

I did skim those very lightly. Otoh, Phyllis Gotlieb and Diane Glancy are worthy of further exploration for 'diverse' sf reading. There are too many, and besides, your taste might not match mine. If you want a big collection of quality SF shorts, many of which you're likely to enjoy, I recommend this.

Yes, even now. One thing the editors mostly got right is that they consciously? View 2 comments. This is a book I would like to own one day. It's a packed-full treasure of short stories from many authors I was familiar with with but hadn't read and others whom I didn't know existed but well in love with. I initially picked it up from the library because it contained an Octavia Butler story I hadn't' yet read she did not disappoint but I was surprised by how many other stories pulled me in.

I know I like sci-fi as a genre and Le Guin's introduction to how and why the stories were chosen g This is a book I would like to own one day. I know I like sci-fi as a genre and Le Guin's introduction to how and why the stories were chosen go a long way in explaining why ; but I feel more connected to the genre now which sounds weird, I know.

Thank you to both editors for compiling such varied, rich stories - some of which are still haunting me. It has a wide range of stories, but the book is hard to get through. I skipped about a handful of them that I just couldn't get into. I'm fairly certain some of the stories weren't even in the science fiction genre. Just randomly pick one and read it: some are funny, and some are sick.

Read as a bedtime snack for the dream world. Feb 02, Kytica rated it it was amazing. Oct 06, Ebenmaessiger rated it really liked it.