The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology

Collecting more than two dozen stories that originally appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction — the premiere speculative fiction magazine — this extraordinary anthology celebrates 60 years of top-notch genre fiction.

This retrospective volume includes "All Summer in a Day,” Ray Bradbury’s lasting tale of what happened on one special day; "Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, describing what happened to Charlie Gordon when he was made into a genius; "Harrison Bergeron," Kurt Vonnegut’s absurdist cautionary tale of mandatory equality; and "The Electric Ant" by Philip K. Dick, concerning what Garson Poole learned after the accident that hospitalized him. This remarkable collection also features some of the most highly acclaimed, award-winning authors, including Neil Gaiman, Harlan Ellison, Shirley Jackson, Peter S. Beagle, Karen Joy Fowler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Theodore Sturgeon, and Roger Zelazny.

Hand-picked by the magazine’s current editor, this is an unmatched assemblage of appealing, first-rate fiction.

Contents

Introduction by Gordon Van Gelder

"Of Time and Third Avenue" by Alfred Bester

"All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury

"One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts" by Shirley Jackson

"A Touch of Strange" by Theodore Sturgeon

"Eastward ho!" by William Tenn

"Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut

"This Moment of the Storm" by Roger Zelazny

"The Electric Ant" by Philip K. Dick

"The Deathbird" by Harlan Ellison

"The Women Men Don't See" by James Tiptree, Jr.

"I See You" by Damon Knight

"The Gunslinger" by Stephen King

"The Dark" by Karen Joy Fowler

"Buffalo" by John Kessel

"Solitude" by Ursula K. Le Guin

"Mother Grasshopper" by Michael Swanwick

"macs" by Terry Bisson

"Creation" by Jeffrey Ford

"Other People" by Neil Gaiman

"Two Hearts" by Peter S. Beagle

"Journey into the Kingdom" by M. Rickert

"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" by Ted Chiang

• Author
• Gordon Van Gelder, Peter S. Beagle, Neil Gaiman, Shirley Jackson, Daniel Keyes, Stephen King, Damon Knight, Ursula K. Le Guin, M. Rickert, Theodore Sturgeon, Michael Swanwick, William Tenn, Alfred Bester, James Tiptree Jr., Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Terry Bisson, Ray Bradbury, Ted Chiang, Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Jeffrey Ford, Joy Fowler

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 475

• Publisher
• Tachyon Publications

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781892391919

• Genres
• fantasy, anthologies, fiction, horror

• Release date
• 2009