There is hard science fiction (James White’s “Sector General”) and horror (George R.R. Delany’s “Aye, and Gomorrah.”), cyberpunk (William Gibson’s “New Rose Hotel”), and beyond (the most recent story is Johanna Sinisalo’s “Baby Doll,” published in 2002). Wells’s “The Star”), through the pulp era (Edmond Hamilton’s “The Star-Stealers”), the so-called golden age of the 1940s and ’50s (Ray Bradbury’s “September 2005: The Martian”), New Wave (Samuel R. Featuring authors from A (Isaac Asimov’s “The Last Question”) to Z (Valentina Zhuravlyova’s “The Astronaut”), the anthology manages to touch all bases of the genre, from its origins (H.G. At 105 stories-taken from around the world and since the genre’s very beginnings to its recent heights-and more than 1,000 pages, this extraordinary anthology handily earns its billing as the “ultimate collection” of science fiction.
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