The Road to Science Fiction

First published by Signet in 1979, reprinted by Scarecrow Press, May 2002.

Volume 4: From Here to Forever

• "Born of Man and Woman," by Richard Matheson
• "The Luckiest Man in Denv," by
  C. M. Kornbluth
  (not included in the Signet edition)
• "Common Time," by James Blish (not included in the Signet edition)
• "My Boy Friend's Name is Jello," by Avram Davidson
• "The First Canticle," by
  Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• "Nobody Bothers Gus," by Algis Budrys
• "Flowers for Algernon," by Daniel Keyes
• "The Moon Moth" by Jack Vance
• "The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges
• Dune (excerpt) by Frank Herbert
• "Light of Other Days," by Bob Shaw
• "The First Sally (A), or Trurl's Electronic Bard" by Stanisław Lem
• "The Heat Death of the Universe," by Pamela Zoline
• "The Planners" by Kate Wilhelm
• "The Dance of the Changer and the Three" by Terry Carr
• "
  James Tiptree, Jr.
  (Alice Sheldon)
• "Where No Sun Shines" by Gardner Dozois
• "The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories" by Gene Wolfe
• "Angouleme" by Thomas M. Disch
• "Gather Blue Roses," by Pamela Sargent
• "With a Finger in My I," by David Gerrold
• "The Ghost Writer," by George Alec Effinger (Signet edition)
• "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand," by Vonda N. McIntyre
• "Air Raid," by John Varley
• "Uncoupling," by Barry N. Malzberg
• "Rogue Tomato," by Michael Bishop
• "This Tower of Ashes," by George R. R. Martin
• "Particle Theory," by Edward Bryant
• "View from a Height," by Joan D. Vinge
• "The Word Sweep" by George Zebrowski
• "The World Science Fiction Convention of 2080" by Ian Watson
• "Abominable" by Carol Emshwiller
• "Exposures" by Gregory Benford
• "Schrödinger's Kitten," by George Alec Effinger (not included in the Signet edition)

First published by Signet, 1982, reprinted by White Wolf, January 1997 and Scarecrow Press, 2003)

Volume 5: The British Way

(White Wolf, March 1998)

Influential British SF published prior to 1986'

• The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer (excerpt) by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir George Tomkyns Chesney
• Edwin A. Abbott
• After London; or, Wild England (excerpt) by Richard Jefferies
• "The Doom of London," by Robert Barr
• "A Corner in Lightning," by George Griffith
• "The Country of the Blind" by H. G. Wells
• "As Easy as A.B.C." by Rudyard Kipling
• "A Negligible Experiment" by
  John D. Beresford
• "
  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• "The Rat" by S. Fowler Wright
• Star Maker (excerpt) by Olaf Stapledon
• "The Great Fog," by H. F. Heard
• "Hobbyist" by Eric Frank Russell
• "Dreams Are Sacred, by Peter Phillips
• "Made in U.S.A." by J. T. McIntosh
• "The Star" by Arthur C. Clarke
• "The Emptiness of Space," by John Wyndham
• "The Voices of Time," by J. G. Ballard
• "The Drowned Giant," by J. G. Ballard
• "The Totally Rich," by
  John Brunner
• "Mouth of Hell," by David I. Masson
• "The Discontinuous," by
  D. G. Compton
• "It's Smart to Have an English Address" by
  D. G. Compton
• "The Muse" by Anthony Burgess
• "The Nature of the Catastrophe," by Michael Moorcock
• "The Power of Time" by Josephine Saxton
• "Mason's Life" by Kingsley Amis
• "Settling the World" by M. John Harrison
• "Working in the Spaceship Yards," by
  Brian W. Aldiss
• "Appearance of Life" by
  Brian W. Aldiss
• "An Infinite Summer" by Christopher Priest
• "Custom Fitting" by James White
• "Written in Water" by Tanith Lee
• "The Great Atlantic Swimming Race" by Ian Watson
• "And He Not Busy Being Born" by
  Brian M. Stableford