The Big Book of Science Fiction by Jeff VanderMeer, Ann VanderMeer

The Big Book of Science Fiction

The Ultimate Collection #1

Jeff VanderMeer, Ann VanderMeer with Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, George R.R. Martin, C.J. Cherryh, Kurt Vonnegut, Karl Hans Strobl, Paul Scheerbart, Alfred Jarry, Miguel de Unamuno, Yefim Zozulya, Clare Winger Harris, Edmond Hamilton, Leslie F. Stone, Stanley G. Weinbaum, A. Merritt, Paul Ernst, Jorge Luis Borges, Clifford D. Simak, Ray Bradbury, Juan José Arreola, James Blish, Philip K. Dick, Katherine MacLean, Margaret St. Clair, William Tenn, Chad Oliver, Arthur C. Clarke, James H. Schmitz, Cordwainer Smith, Isaac Asimov, Damon Knight, James White, Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Carol Emshwiller, Gérard Klein, Theodore Sturgeon, Silvina Ocampo, H.G. Wells, Valentina Zhuravlyova, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Vadim Shefner, Sever Gansovsky, John Baxter, W.E.B. Du Bois, André Carneiro, Harlan Ellison, R.A. Lafferty, Frederik Pohl, F. L. Wallace, Samuel R. Delany, Langdon Jones, Yoshio Aramaki, David R. Bunch, Stanisław Lem, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Silverberg, Joanna Russ, James Tiptree Jr., Dmitri Bilenkin, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Alicia Yánez Cossío, Michael Bishop, Barrington J. Bayley, Lisa Tuttle, Josephine Saxton, Shinji Kajio, Bruce Sterling, Jacques Barbéri, Greg Bear, Octavia E. Butler, Pat Cadigan, William Gibson, Karen Joy Fowler, Angélica Gorodischer, Jon Bing, Élisabeth Vonarburg, Iain M. Banks, Jean-Claude Dunyach, Tanith Lee, Michael Moorcock, Manjula Padmanabhan, Pat Murphy, S.N. Dyer, Connie Willis, Gene Wolfe, Geoffrey A. Landis, Han Song, Rachel Pollack, Kim Stanley Robinson, Misha Nogha, Michael Blumlein, Leena Krohn, Kojo Laing, Gwyneth Jones, Robert Reed, William Tenn, Geoffrey Maloney, Stepan Chapman, Cixin Liu, Ted Chiang, Cory Doctorow, Tatyana Tolstaya, Johanna Sinisalo, J.G. Ballard, John Crowley, Will Mohler

1209 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

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Quite possibly the GREATEST science-fiction collection of ALL TIME—past, present, and FUTURE!What if life was never-ending? What if you could change your body to adapt to an alien ecology? What if the Pope was a robot? Spanning galaxies and millen...

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adventurous 100%
challenging 100%
dark 50%
emotional 50%
informative 50%
inspiring 50%
mysterious 50%
reflective 50%
sad 50%
tense 50%

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medium 50%

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A mix: 100%

Strong character development?

It's complicated: 100%

Loveable characters?

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