Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology

An invaluable contribution to the serious study of science fiction as well as a highly entertaining collection, Science Fiction contains 27 chronologically-arranged stories and excerpts, ranging from such early classic works as Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Shelley’s Frankenstein to recent stories such as Harlan Ellison’s I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and Ursula K. Le Guin’s Vaster Than Empires and More Slow.
Including brief general essays and a separate introduction to each individual story or excerpt, Rabkin’s anthology greatly illuminates the evolution of the genre.