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  <title><![CDATA[The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF]]></title>
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  <default_description>Featuring more than sixty groundbreaking short stories by modern science fiction's most important and influential writers, The Ascent of Wonder offers a definitive and incisive exploration of the SF genre's visionary core.From Poe to Pohl, Wells to Wolfe, and Verne to Vinge, this hefty anthology fully charts the themes, trends, thoughts, and traditions that comprise the challenging yet rich literary form known as &quot;hard SF.&quot;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1994</original_publication_year>
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    <body><![CDATA[Contains one of PB's Classic SF Stories:<br/><br/>&quot;Mimsy were the Borogoves&quot; by Henry Kuttner and maybe by his wife C L Moore too (1943)<br/><br/>Imagine if Lewis Carroll had been around to collect on the copyright to Jaberwocky and Alice and so forth - literature's best-loved paedophi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36672602">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 &quot;hard&quot; science stories was a wise move, I think.  My only complaint, and the reason I couldn't stick that extra ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15025245">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 oppose...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14398332">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 &quot;The Xi Effect,&quot; in which all the light in the world...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1485463">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[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.<br/>recommended for all fans of scifi and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34595381">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a great collection of stories.  Worth it just for &quot;All mimsy were the borogroves&quot; and Kipling's &quot;With the Night Mail&quot;, but there's so much more quality material here]]></body>
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