Summary:
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The stories often represent philosophical thought experiments presented in entertaining ways. Protagonists typically “think” rather than “shoot” their way out of problems, but the definition is flexible because there are no limits on an author’s imagination. The reader-selected stories presented here were written prior to 1962 and became US public domain texts when their copyrights expired. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)
In This Collection:
All Cats Are Gray by Andre Norton
Beyond Lies the Wub by Phillip K. Dick
The Gallery by Rog Phillips
The Happy Unfortunate by Robert Silverberg
The Man Who Saw the Future by Edmond Hamilton
A Matter of Proportion by Anne Walker
The Sargasso of Space by Edmond Hamilton
Something Will Turn Up by David Mason
Stopover by William Gerken
Toy Shop by Harrison, Harry
On Librivox: http://librivox.org/short-science-fiction-collection-19/
