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published
June 15th 1994
by Tor Books
(first published 1994)
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Hardcover, 992 pages
isbn
031285062X
(isbn13: 9780312850623)
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Featuring more than sixty groundbreaking short stories by modern science fiction's most important and influential writers, The Ascent of Wonder offers…more
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Contains one of PB's Classic SF Stories:
"Mimsy were the Borogoves" by Henry Kuttner and maybe by his wife C L Moore too (1943)
Imagine if Lewis Carroll had been around to collect on the copyright to Jaberwocky and Alice and so forth - literature's best-loved paedophile would have been RICH RICH RICH but would also probably have been in JAIL JAIL JAIL.
This story is great - kids discover a box of gorgeous new toys which have fallen out of the future. Th...more
"Mimsy were the Borogoves" by Henry Kuttner and maybe by his wife C L Moore too (1943)
Imagine if Lewis Carroll had been around to collect on the copyright to Jaberwocky and Alice and so forth - literature's best-loved paedophile would have been RICH RICH RICH but would also probably have been in JAIL JAIL JAIL.
This story is great - kids discover a box of gorgeous new toys which have fallen out of the future. Th...more
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Read in November, 2005
recommends it for:
sci fi fans, short story fans
There are so many sci fi surveys on the market it would be almost impossible to read them all. That said, David Hartwell is one of the best anthologists out there. Focusing on "hard" science stories was a wise move, I think. My only complaint, and the reason I couldn't stick that extra star up there on the rating, was because many of the stories contained here were already in my other sci fi anthologies. Still, if you don't already own a large number of anthologies, and you're look...more
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Read in February, 1995
At the time, this was the third Hartwell anthology I had read. It presents stories that have a solid foundation in sciences and math, which the editors define as hard scifi. It had creative, interesting, and very readable stories. My impression back then, this was like sipping a fine wine, as opposed to other light scifi books, which would be like sipping a cola or water. You can have them all in the end, and I do read the lighter stuff too. I do recommend this one.
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Read in February, 1998
my oldest brother gave me this book as a birthday present when i was a senior in high school, and i couldn't sleep soundly for months afterwards. seriously, i felt like a scared toddler shaking in diapers after reading this story called "The Xi Effect," in which all the light in the world goes out. it's hard for me to judge this book on a scale measuring how much i liked it, because all i remember is being utterly terrified.
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Read in February, 2009
very nice compilation spanning the entire time of hard scifi. good mix of the extremes of the genre as well - for instance: william gibson's johnny mnemonic has very little real 'hard science' in it, but is still a hard scifi story and worthy of inclusion.
recommended for all fans of scifi and those interested in the progress of scifi in the 20th century.
recommended for all fans of scifi and those interested in the progress of scifi in the 20th century.
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Read in January, 2009
What a great collection of stories. Worth it just for "All mimsy were the borogroves" and Kipling's "With the Night Mail", but there's so much more quality material here
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