A Science Fiction Reading List

I use a variety of texts when teaching science fiction — more than are available within any anthology. These texts fall under fair use, since I use them for education. However, unless they are in the public domain, all of the following texts are password-protected, only available to members of my sf Google Group. Most of the selections are PDF and therefore require some sort of reader, like Adobe’s.

Isaac Asimov

• “Nightfall” from The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One
• “Reason” from I, Robot

J. G. Ballard

• “Report on an Unidentified Space Station” from War Fever

Greg Bear

• “Blood Music” from The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy
• “Schrödinger’s Plague” from The Norton Book of Science Fiction

Alfred Bester

• “Fondly Fahrenheit” from The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Ray Bradbury

• “There Will Come Soft Rains” from The Martian Chronicles

Octavia Butler

• “Bloodchild” from The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Orson Scott Card

• “Ender’s Game” from The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Arthur C. Clarke

• “The Nine Billion Names of God” from The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One
• “The Sentinel” from The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy
• “The Star” from A Century of Science Fiction

Samuel R. Delany

• “Driftglass” from The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Philip K. Dick

• “Frozen Journey” from The Norton Book of Science Fiction
• “The Minority Report” from The Minority Report
• “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” from We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (The Collected Short Stories of Philip K. Dick, Vol. 2)

Harlan Ellison

• “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” from Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology

Paul Di Filippo

• “One Night in Television City” from Ribofunk

William Gibson

• “Burning Chrome” from The Nebula Awards Eighteen
• “The Gernsback Contiuum” from The Norton Book of Science Fiction
• “Johnny Mnemonic” from Literacy, Technology and Society: Confronting the Issues

David G. Hartwell

• “Introduction” from The Science Fiction Century

Ursula K. Le Guin

• from the Introduction to The Norton Book of Science Fiction (Parts: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)

Larry McCaffery

• “The Desert of the Real” from Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction

Michael Moorcock

• “Behold the Man” from Moorcock’s Book of Martyrs

Garyn G. Roberts

• “Science Fiction“: the introduction to section three of The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Joanna Russ

• “When It Changed” from The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Bruce Sterling

• Preface to Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology
• “Maneki Neko” from A Good Old-Fashioned Future
• “Swarm” from The Nebula Awards Eighteen
• “We See Things Differently” from The Norton Book of Science Fiction

Theodore Sturgeon

• “Thunder and Roses” from The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy

James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon)

• “And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side” from Alien Sex: 19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy
• “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” from Literacy, Technology and Society: Confronting the Issues
• “Houston, Houston, Do You Read?” from Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology
• “The Women Men Don’t See” from The Norton Book of Science Fiction

H. G. Wells

• “The Star” in the Public Domain

Roger Zelazny

• “A Rose for Ecclesiastes” (PDF) from The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One