"The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction features over a 150 years? worth of the best science fiction ever collected in a single volume. The fifty-two stories and critical introductions are organized chronologically as well as thematically for classroom use. Filled with luminous ideas, otherworldly adventures, and startling futuristic speculations, these stories will appeal to all readers as they chart the emergence and evolution of science fiction as a modern literary genre. They also provide a fascinating look at how our Western technoculture has imaginatively expressed its hopes and fears from the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century to the digital age of today"--Publisher website.

Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Journey to the center of the earth / Jules Verne -- Star / H. G. Wells -- Machine stops / E. M. Forster -- Man who evolved / Edmond Hamilton -- Conquest of Gola / Leslie F. Stone -- Shambleau / C. L. Moore -- Martian odyssey / Stanley Weinbaum -- Reason / Issac Asimov -- Desertion / Clifford D. Simak -- Thunder and roses / Theodore Sturgeon -- That only a mother / Judith Merril -- Coming attraction / Fritz Leiber -- There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury -- Sentinel / Arthur C. Clarke -- Specialist / Robert Sheckley -- Liberation of earth / William Tenn -- Fondly fahrenheit / Alfred Bester -- Golem / Avram Davidson -- Game of rat and dragon / Cordwainer Smith -- All you zombies / Robert A. Heinlein -- Cage of sand / J. G. Ballard -- Slow tuesday night / R. A. Lafferty -- Repent, Harlequin! Said the ticktockman / Harlan Ellison -- Day million / Frederik Pohl -- We can remember it for you wholesale / Philip K. Dick -- Aye, and Gomorrah... / Samuel R. Delany -- Heat death of the universe / Pamela Zoline -- Passengers / Robert Silverberg -- Super-toys last all summer long / Brian Aldiss -- Nine lives / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Seed stock / Frank Herbert -- Seventh voyage from the star diaries / Stanislaw Lem -- When it changed / Joanna Russ -- I awoke and found me here on the cold hill's side / James Tiptree Jr. -- Air raid / John Varley -- Abominable / Caol Emshwiller -- Burning chrome / William Gibson -- Speech sounds / Octavia E. Bulter -- Out of all them bright stars / Nancy Kress -- Pretty boy crossover / Pat Cadigan -- Forever yours, Anna / Kate Wilhelm -- We see things differently / Bruce Sterling -- Chippoke Na Gomi / Misha Nogha -- Computer friendly / Eileen Gunn -- Invaders / John Kessel -- Useful phrases / Gene Wolfe -- Closer ; Think like a dinosaur / James Patrick Kelly -- Everywhere / Geoff Ryman -- Rogue farm / Charles Stross -- Exhalation / Ted Chiang.