The Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction

I. Foundations of SF I: The Nineteenth Century

1. Washington Irving, [Men of the Moon], from History of New York (1809)
2. George Gordon Byron, “Darkness” (1816)
3. Edgar Allan Poe, “Sonnet–To Science” (1829)
4. Edgar Allan Poe, “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” (1845)
5. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, “The Mortal Immortal” (1833)
6. Florence McLandburgh, “The Automaton Ear” (1873)
7. H.G. Wells, “The Star” (1897)
8. Charles Chesnutt, “Mars Jeems’s Nightmare” (1899)

II. Foundations of SF II: Enter the Twentieth Century: 1900–1939

1. Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, “Sultana’s Dream” (1905)
2. E.M. Forster, “The Machine Stops” (1909)
3. Francis Stevens (Gertrude Barrows), “Friend Island” (1918)
4. W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Comet” (1920)
5. Leland S. Copeland, “Alone” (1922), “Planet Neptune to Mother Sun” (1921)
6. Phillip Francis Nowlan and Richard Calkins, Buck Rogers, 2429 A.D. — “The Sleeper,” “The Awakening,” “Falling Upward,” “The Raider” (1929; comic strips)
7. Leslie F. Stone, “The Conquest of Gola” (1931)
8. H.P. Lovecraft, “From Beyond” (1934)

III. The Dawn and Setting of the Golden Age: 1940–1959

1. Isaac Asimov, “Liar!” (1941)
2. Lewis Padgett (C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner), “Mimsy Were the Borogroves” (1943)
3. Ray Bradbury, “There Will Come Soft Rains” (1950)
4. James H. Hill, “The Space Ship” (1950)
5. Arthur C. Clarke, “The Nine Billion Names of God” (1953)
6. Theodore Sturgeon, “The World Well Lost” (1953)
7. Judith Merril, “Dead Center” (1954)
8. Sun Ra, “The Space Age Cannot Be Avoided” (1957)
9. Muriel Spark, “Miss Pinkerton’s Apocalypse” (1958)

IV. Revolutions and New Waves: 1960–1980s

1. Pamela Zoline, “The Heat Death of the Universe” (1967)
2. Philip K. Dick, “The Electric Ant” (1969)
3. Gil Scott-Heron, “Whitey on the Moon” (1970)
4. James Tiptree Jr., “And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side” (1972)
5. Joanna Russ, “When it Changed” (1972)
6. Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Variations on a Theme by William James)” (1973)
7. Samuel R. Delany, “Among the Blobs” (written 1976; published 1987)
8. J.G. Ballard, “The Index” (1977)
9. William Gibson, “The Gernsback Continuum” (1981)
10. Charles R. Saunders, “Jeroboam Henley’s Debt” (1982)

V. The Digital Age and Its Discontents: 1980s–2000s

1. William F. Wu, “Wong’s Lost and Found Emporium” (1983)
2. Octavia E. Butler, “Speech Sounds” (1983)
3. Pat Cadigan, “Angel” (1987)
4. Candas Jane Dorsey, “(Learning about) Machine Sex” (1988)
5. Joe Haldeman, “DX” (1987)
6. Connie Willis, “At the Rialto” (1989)
7. Derrick Bell, “The Space Traders” (1992)
8. Nalo Hopkinson, “Something to Hitch Meat to” (2001)
9. N.K. Jemisin, “Too Many Yesterdays, Not Enough Tomorrows” (2004)

VI. The Multiple Futures of Contemporary SF: 2000s–present

1. Thomas King, “Where the Borg Are” (2005)
2. Ted Chiang, “Exhalation” (2008)
3. Jo Walton, “Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction” (2009)
4. China Miéville, “Covehithe” (2011)
5. Ken Liu, “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species” (2012)
6. Richard Van Camp, “On the Wings of this Prayer” (2013)
7. Canisia Lubrin, Voodoo Hypothesis (2015)
8. Drew Hayden Taylor, “Stars” (2016)
9. Dilman Dila, “The Last Storyteller” (2019)