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What are your top science fiction anthologies and collections? Forget the novels: which science fiction collections blew you away?
For an anthology-only list (multiple-author collections only) see: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
For an anthology-only list (multiple-author collections only) see: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
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Tales Of Pirx The Pilot
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The Early Asimov: Volume 1
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Space Opera
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The Mirror of Infinity
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The World Inside
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Weird Tales: The Magazine That Never Dies
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18 Greatest Science Fiction Stories
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Welcome to the Greenhouse: New Science Fiction on Climate Change
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Bug-Eyed Monsters
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Cities in Flight (Cities in Flight, #1-4)
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The Best of Randall Garrett
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10 Lost Vintage Sci-Fi Short Story Masterpieces for Hardcore Fans Only!
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James H. Schmitz (Compiler)
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More Than Human
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Free Space
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Brad Linaweaver (Editor)
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The Compleat Boucher: The Complete Short Science Fiction & Fantasy of Anthony Boucher
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Cosmicomics
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The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge
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Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
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Bug-Eyed Monsters
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Another Kind
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Collected Fictions
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Women of Wonder, the Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s
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12 Collections & the Teashop
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Steps Through the Mist
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Impossible Stories
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Impossible Stories II
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Jul 11, 2010 07:39PM
Can someone please remove Ringworld?
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Single author collections are not anthologies.
Tomhl wrote: "Single author collections are not anthologies."I totally agree.
I've removed Ringworld because it's a novel!
This list needs serious maintenance.As mentioned above, single author collections should not be included here. But it seems like nearly half of the books on the list are just that. Things like "Wireless" by Charles Stross, "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison, or "The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum" do not meet the criteria.
An anthology is a group of stories by various authors.
Also, there's at least one book on here that is an omnibus of novels. "The Callahan Chronicals" by Spider Robinson, collects three of his novels in the Callahan series. Not even close to an anthology.
Does the list owner want to remove books that are not true anthologies, or should different instructions be posted at the top of the list?
Apparently, Rob changed the list name and description to include single-author collections as well. However, that would still exclude omnibuses like The Callahan Chronicals which remains here...I've created a more restrictive list here for science fiction anthologies only.
The first two Callahan books, at least, are collections of short stories.
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