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Synopsis

When readers first encounter science fiction, they find adventures on other planets and in future worlds, explorations of future technology and its implications, and extrapolations of social trends and warnings of where they may lead--but they also encounter concepts heretofore undreamed of, and the impact on the readers' thinking does nothing less than turn their world upside down.

Now, David Drake, Jim Baen and Eric Flint gather together some of the greatest science fiction ever written in one volume, with each story chosen for a startling breakthrough concept which left readers stunned and changed the course of science fiction.

In the Golden Age of science fiction, the science fiction magazines weren't given titles such as Astounding, Amazing, Startling, etc., for nothing! Pick up this generous serving of the very best of science fiction and prepared to be astounded, amazed, startled--and entertained.

Table of Contents:

• Preface - essay by Eric Flint
• Rescue Party - (1946) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Menace from Earth - (1957) - shortfiction by Robert A. Heinlein
• Code Three - (1963) - novella by Rick Raphael
• Hunting Problem - (1955) - shortstory by Robert Sheckley
• Black Destroyer - (1939) - novelette by A. E. van Vogt
• A Pail of Air - (1951) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• Thy Rocks and Rills - (1953) - novelette by Robert E. Gilbert
• A Gun for Dinosaur - (1956) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• Goblin Night - (1965) - novelette by James H. Schmitz
• The Only Thing We Learn - (1949) - shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
• Trigger Tide - (1950) - shortstory by Wyman Guin
• The Aliens - (1959) - novelette by Murray Leinster
• All the Way Back - (1952) - shortstory by Michael Shaara
• The Last Command - (1967) - shortstory by Keith Laumer
• Who Goes There? - (1938) - novella by John W. Campbell, Jr.
• Quietus - (1940) - shortstory by Ross Rocklynne
• Answer - (1954) - shortstory by Fredric Brown
• The Last Question - (1956) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• The Cold Equations - (1954) - novelette by Tom Godwin
• Shambleau - (1933) - novelette by C. L. Moore
• Turning Point - (1963) - shortstory by Poul Anderson
• Heavy Planet - (1939) - shortstory by Milton A. Rothman
• Omnilingual - (1957) - novelette by H. Beam Piper
• The Gentle Earth - (1957) - novella by Christopher Anvil
• Environment - (1944) - shortstory by Chester S. Geier
• Liane the Wayfarer - (1950) - shortstory by Jack Vance
• Spawn - (1939) - novelette by P. Schuyler Miller
• St. Dragon and the George - (1957) - novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
• Thunder and Roses - (1947) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon

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