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First published in 1973 by editor Creator/BrianAldiss, this {{Omnibus}} republishes ''Penguin Science Fiction'' (1961), ''More Penguin Science Fiction'' (1963), and ''Yet More Penguin Science Fiction'' (1964) in a single ([[{{Doorstopper}} enormous]]) volume, under the title ''The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus''. It was [[OrwellianRetcon changed]] to ''A Science Fiction Omnibus'' in 2007, and added/removed several stories. The list below indicates removed stories with an asterisk (*).
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!!Works published in this {{Anthology}}:
* Introduction (Omnibus-only) by Creator/BrianAldiss
[[folder:Penguin Science Fiction]]
[[index]] %%Listed in order of appearance
* "Literature/SoleSolution", by Creator/EricFrankRussell (1956)
* "{{Literature/Lot}}", by Creator/WardMoore (1953)
* "Literature/TheShortShortStoryOfMankind", by Creator/JohnSteinbeck (1958)
* "{{Literature/Skirmish}}", by Creator/CliffordDSimak (1950)
* "Literature/PoorLittleWarrior!", by Creator/BrianAldiss (1958)
* "{{Literature/Grandpa}}", by Creator/JamesHSchmitz (1955)
* "Literature/TheHalfPair", by Creator/BertramChandler (1957)*
* "Literature/CommandPerformance", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr. (1952)*
* "Literature/{{Nightfall|1941}}", by Creator/IsaacAsimov (1941)
* "Literature/TheSnowballEffect", by Creator/KatherineMacLean (1952)
* "Literature/TheEndOfSummer", by Creator/AlgisBudrys (1954)*
* "Literature/Track12", by Creator/JGBallard (1958)
[[/index]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:More Penguin Science Fiction]]
[[index]] %%Listed in order of appearance
* "Literature/TheMonkeyWrench", by Creator/GordonRDickson (1951)*
* "Literature/TheFirstMen", by Creator/HowardFast (1960)*
* "{{Literature/Counterfeit}}", by Creator/AlanENourse (1952)*
* "Literature/TheGreaterThing", by Creator/TomGodwin (1954)*
* "Literature/BuiltUpLogically", by Creator/HowardSchoenfeld (1949)*
* "Literature/TheLiberationOfEarth", by Creator/WilliamTenn (1953)*
* "[[Literature/TheStreetsOfAshkelon An Alien Agony]]", by Creator/HarryHarrison (1962)
* "Literature/TheTunnelUnderTheWorld", by Creator/FrederikPohl (1955)
* "Literature/TheStoreOfTheWorlds", by Creator/RobertSheckley (1959)
* "{{Literature/Jokester}}", by Creator/IsaacAsimov (1956)
* "{{Literature/Pyramid}}", by Creator/RobertAbernathy (1954)*
* "Literature/TheForgottenEnemy", by Creator/ArthurCClarke (1948)*
[[/index]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yet More Penguin Science Fiction]]
[[index]] %%Listed in order of appearance
* "Literature/TheWallAroundTheWorld", by Creator/TheodoreRCogswell (1953)*
* "Literature/ProtectedSpecies", by Creator/HBFyfe (1951)
* "Literature/BeforeEden", by Creator/ArthurCClarke (1961)*
* "Literature/TheRescuer", by Creator/ArthurPorges (1962)
* "Literature/IMadeYou", by Creator/WalterMMiller, Jr. (1954)
* "Literature/TheCountryOfTheKind", by Creator/DamonKnight (1956)
* "Literature/MSFoundInAChineseFortuneCookie", by Creator/CMKornbluth (1957)
* "Literature/TheCage", by Creator/BertramChandler (1957)
* "Literature/EastwardHo!", by Creator/WilliamTenn (1958)*
* "Literature/TheWindowsOfHeaven", by Creator/JohnBrunner (1956)*
* "Literature/CommonTime", by Creator/JamesBlish (1953)
* "{{Literature/Fulfillment}}", by Creator/AEVanVogt (1951)
[[/index]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Stories added in the 2007 remake]]
[[index]] %%Listed alphabetically
* "Literature/AlienEmbassy", by Creator/GarryKilworth (2006)
* "[[Literature/AndIAwokeAndFoundMeHereOnTheColdHillsSide And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side]]", by Creator/JamesTiptreeJr (1972)
* "Literature/{{Answer}}", by Creator/FredricBrown (1954)
* "Literature/BloodMusic", by Creator/GregBear (1983, {{novelette}})
* "Literature/FriendsInNeed", by Creator/ElizaBlair (2007, only published here)
* "Literature/GreatWorkOfTime", by Creator/JohnCrowley (1989)
* "Literature/TheLiberationOfEarth", by Creator/WilliamTenn (1953)
* "Night Watch", by Creator/JamesInglis (1965)
* "Literature/SexualDimorphism", by Creator/KimStanleyRobinson (1999)
* "Literature/StoryOfYourLife", by Creator/TedChiang (1998)
* "Literature/{{Swarm}}", by Creator/BruceSterling (1982)
[[/index]]
[[/folder]]
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!!Examples of tropes in this work:
* BilledAboveTheTitle: The 1968 cover for ''More Penguin Science Fiction'' has the editor credits preceding the title of the volume.
* BrainUploading: In "Literature/TheTunnelUnderTheWorld", by Creator/FrederickPohl, Guy Burckhardt is creeped out by the robots at the factory. His business partner tells him that each of the machines there operates with the uploaded memories and minds of actual human beings. [[spoiler:When the inhabitants of Tylerton were killed in a chemical explosion, including Guy, their minds were transferred into miniature robots the same way. Now Dorchin uses them as advertising test subjects.]]
* {{Doorstopper}}: The {{Omnibus}} itself has 592 pages, not including the introduction and copyright pages.
* FantasticScience: In "Literature/CommandPerformance", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr, Kenneth Grearly is calls themselves a psychophysicist, someone who studies the physics of things like {{Telepathy}}. They chose that field of study because they have the ability to share feelings and thoughts with other people.
* FishbowlHelmet: The 1986 cover of the ''Omnibus'' has a bubble-headed spacefaring adventurer on an alien planet with a dinosaur.
* FromBadToWorse: Creator/WilliamTenn's "Literature/TheLiberationOfEarth": Two warring groups of aliens keep trading control of the eponymous planet back and forth, causing more and more damage in the process. When the two species' battle finally shifts to another solar system, they leave behind a handful of ragged human survivors scrabbling on a pear-shaped atmosphere-depleted burnt-out husk.
* GoneHorriblyRight: In "Literature/TheMonkeyWrench", a ShortStory by Creator/GordonRDickson, one of the characters demonstrates that their computer is susceptible to [[LogicBomb distraction by paradoxes]]. They decide to make their demonstration in the arctic, where the subsequent shutdown means the characters freeze to death.
* LogicBomb: In "Literature/TheMonkeyWrench", a ShortStory by Creator/GordonRDickson, one of the characters claims they can shut down the computer of the meteorologic arctic station with a paradox. To prove their point, they suggest a paradox to the machine, making it incapable of doing anything than computing the paradox. Ironically, [[GoneHorriblyRight this condemns him and his partner to freeze to death, as all the vital controls of the station were provided by the machine]].
* TheMissionary: In "Literature/AnAlienAgony", by Creator/HarryHarrison, Father Mark has been sent by the Missionary Society of Brother, representing Christianity, so that they might save the souls of the aliens by bringing the Good News of God to them. Garth, believing that ReligionIsWrong, is angry at Father Mark's arrival, and tries threatening, assaulting, and finally cajoling that the man doesn't try teaching religion to the Weskers.
* MockingSingSong: Creator/TheodoreRCogswell's "Literature/TheWallAroundTheWorld": Porgie mocks his cousin and his friends while flying around in his gliding machine by calling out an annoying sound; "Nyah, nyah, nyah".
--> "Nyah, nyah, nyah, you can't catch me!"
* NecessarilyEvil: Creator/CliffordSimak's "{{Literature/Skirmish}}": All human development has been based upon synthetic technology of some kind, and thanks to InstantAIJustAddWater, people must either revert to savagery or knowingly enslave an entire species. (LamarckWasRight isn't an option here--even a ''sewing machine'' comes to life.) They choose to enslave the technology, viewing it as a necessary cost.
* {{Omnibus}}: This book republishes three previous [[GenreAnthology genre anthologies]], ''Penguin Science Fiction'' (1961), ''More Penguin Science Fiction'' (1963), and ''Yet More Penguin Science Fiction'' (1964) in a single ([[{{Doorstopper}} enormous]]) volume.
* OneWordTitle:
** "Literature/{{Answer}}", by Creator/FredricBrown (1954)
** "{{Literature/Counterfeit}}", by Creator/AlanENourse (1952)
** "{{Literature/Fulfillment}}", by Creator/AEVanVogt (1951)
** "{{Literature/Grandpa}}", by Creator/JamesHSchmitz (1955)
** "{{Literature/Jokester}}", by Creator/IsaacAsimov (1956)
** "{{Literature/Lot}}", by Creator/WardMoore (1953)
** "{{Literature/Pyramid}}", by Creator/RobertAbernathy (1954)
** "{{Literature/Skirmish}}", by Creator/CliffordDSimak (1950)
** "Literature/{{Swarm}}", by Creator/BruceSterling (1982)
* SecretTest: Creator/TheodoreRCogswell's "Literature/TheWallAroundTheWorld": The people inside The Wall are learning how to cast magic, honing their minds for generations. However, there's occasionally someone who is willing to ignore magic and builds a machine instead to help them over the wall. If they do that, [[RedBaron the Black Man]] takes them away [[spoiler:to learn about the Outside, with the high-tech machines humans have made]].
* StandardHumanSpaceship: The 1980 cover has an enormous spaceship that looks like an eighteen-wheeler truck with extra cabs stuck onto the back to make it even bigger.
* VichyEarth: Creator/WilliamTenn's "Literature/TheLiberationOfEarth": The narrator describes how an alien race "liberated" Earth, then another alien race liberates Earth from the first aliens, and become the new overlords. Then the first alien race re-liberates Earth, and so on. In the end the whole thing was just a minor skirmish in an on-going galactic war, the aliens take their battle elsewhere and Earth has been reduced to a lop-sided irradiated wasteland.
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!!Works published in this {{Anthology}}:
* Introduction (Omnibus-only) by Creator/BrianAldiss
[[folder:Penguin Science Fiction]]
[[index]] %%Listed in order of appearance
* "Literature/SoleSolution", by Creator/EricFrankRussell (1956)
* "{{Literature/Lot}}", by Creator/WardMoore (1953)
* "Literature/TheShortShortStoryOfMankind", by Creator/JohnSteinbeck (1958)
* "{{Literature/Skirmish}}", by Creator/CliffordDSimak (1950)
* "Literature/PoorLittleWarrior!", by Creator/BrianAldiss (1958)
* "{{Literature/Grandpa}}", by Creator/JamesHSchmitz (1955)
* "Literature/TheHalfPair", by Creator/BertramChandler (1957)*
* "Literature/CommandPerformance", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr. (1952)*
* "Literature/{{Nightfall|1941}}", by Creator/IsaacAsimov (1941)
* "Literature/TheSnowballEffect", by Creator/KatherineMacLean (1952)
* "Literature/TheEndOfSummer", by Creator/AlgisBudrys (1954)*
* "Literature/Track12", by Creator/JGBallard (1958)
[[/index]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:More Penguin Science Fiction]]
[[index]] %%Listed in order of appearance
* "Literature/TheMonkeyWrench", by Creator/GordonRDickson (1951)*
* "Literature/TheFirstMen", by Creator/HowardFast (1960)*
* "{{Literature/Counterfeit}}", by Creator/AlanENourse (1952)*
* "Literature/TheGreaterThing", by Creator/TomGodwin (1954)*
* "Literature/BuiltUpLogically", by Creator/HowardSchoenfeld (1949)*
* "Literature/TheLiberationOfEarth", by Creator/WilliamTenn (1953)*
* "[[Literature/TheStreetsOfAshkelon An Alien Agony]]", by Creator/HarryHarrison (1962)
* "Literature/TheTunnelUnderTheWorld", by Creator/FrederikPohl (1955)
* "Literature/TheStoreOfTheWorlds", by Creator/RobertSheckley (1959)
* "{{Literature/Jokester}}", by Creator/IsaacAsimov (1956)
* "{{Literature/Pyramid}}", by Creator/RobertAbernathy (1954)*
* "Literature/TheForgottenEnemy", by Creator/ArthurCClarke (1948)*
[[/index]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yet More Penguin Science Fiction]]
[[index]] %%Listed in order of appearance
* "Literature/TheWallAroundTheWorld", by Creator/TheodoreRCogswell (1953)*
* "Literature/ProtectedSpecies", by Creator/HBFyfe (1951)
* "Literature/BeforeEden", by Creator/ArthurCClarke (1961)*
* "Literature/TheRescuer", by Creator/ArthurPorges (1962)
* "Literature/IMadeYou", by Creator/WalterMMiller, Jr. (1954)
* "Literature/TheCountryOfTheKind", by Creator/DamonKnight (1956)
* "Literature/MSFoundInAChineseFortuneCookie", by Creator/CMKornbluth (1957)
* "Literature/TheCage", by Creator/BertramChandler (1957)
* "Literature/EastwardHo!", by Creator/WilliamTenn (1958)*
* "Literature/TheWindowsOfHeaven", by Creator/JohnBrunner (1956)*
* "Literature/CommonTime", by Creator/JamesBlish (1953)
* "{{Literature/Fulfillment}}", by Creator/AEVanVogt (1951)
[[/index]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Stories added in the 2007 remake]]
[[index]] %%Listed alphabetically
* "Literature/AlienEmbassy", by Creator/GarryKilworth (2006)
* "[[Literature/AndIAwokeAndFoundMeHereOnTheColdHillsSide And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side]]", by Creator/JamesTiptreeJr (1972)
* "Literature/{{Answer}}", by Creator/FredricBrown (1954)
* "Literature/BloodMusic", by Creator/GregBear (1983, {{novelette}})
* "Literature/FriendsInNeed", by Creator/ElizaBlair (2007, only published here)
* "Literature/GreatWorkOfTime", by Creator/JohnCrowley (1989)
* "Literature/TheLiberationOfEarth", by Creator/WilliamTenn (1953)
* "Night Watch", by Creator/JamesInglis (1965)
* "Literature/SexualDimorphism", by Creator/KimStanleyRobinson (1999)
* "Literature/StoryOfYourLife", by Creator/TedChiang (1998)
* "Literature/{{Swarm}}", by Creator/BruceSterling (1982)
[[/index]]
[[/folder]]
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!!Examples of tropes in this work:
* BilledAboveTheTitle: The 1968 cover for ''More Penguin Science Fiction'' has the editor credits preceding the title of the volume.
* BrainUploading: In "Literature/TheTunnelUnderTheWorld", by Creator/FrederickPohl, Guy Burckhardt is creeped out by the robots at the factory. His business partner tells him that each of the machines there operates with the uploaded memories and minds of actual human beings. [[spoiler:When the inhabitants of Tylerton were killed in a chemical explosion, including Guy, their minds were transferred into miniature robots the same way. Now Dorchin uses them as advertising test subjects.]]
* {{Doorstopper}}: The {{Omnibus}} itself has 592 pages, not including the introduction and copyright pages.
* FantasticScience: In "Literature/CommandPerformance", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr, Kenneth Grearly is calls themselves a psychophysicist, someone who studies the physics of things like {{Telepathy}}. They chose that field of study because they have the ability to share feelings and thoughts with other people.
* FishbowlHelmet: The 1986 cover of the ''Omnibus'' has a bubble-headed spacefaring adventurer on an alien planet with a dinosaur.
* FromBadToWorse: Creator/WilliamTenn's "Literature/TheLiberationOfEarth": Two warring groups of aliens keep trading control of the eponymous planet back and forth, causing more and more damage in the process. When the two species' battle finally shifts to another solar system, they leave behind a handful of ragged human survivors scrabbling on a pear-shaped atmosphere-depleted burnt-out husk.
* GoneHorriblyRight: In "Literature/TheMonkeyWrench", a ShortStory by Creator/GordonRDickson, one of the characters demonstrates that their computer is susceptible to [[LogicBomb distraction by paradoxes]]. They decide to make their demonstration in the arctic, where the subsequent shutdown means the characters freeze to death.
* LogicBomb: In "Literature/TheMonkeyWrench", a ShortStory by Creator/GordonRDickson, one of the characters claims they can shut down the computer of the meteorologic arctic station with a paradox. To prove their point, they suggest a paradox to the machine, making it incapable of doing anything than computing the paradox. Ironically, [[GoneHorriblyRight this condemns him and his partner to freeze to death, as all the vital controls of the station were provided by the machine]].
* TheMissionary: In "Literature/AnAlienAgony", by Creator/HarryHarrison, Father Mark has been sent by the Missionary Society of Brother, representing Christianity, so that they might save the souls of the aliens by bringing the Good News of God to them. Garth, believing that ReligionIsWrong, is angry at Father Mark's arrival, and tries threatening, assaulting, and finally cajoling that the man doesn't try teaching religion to the Weskers.
* MockingSingSong: Creator/TheodoreRCogswell's "Literature/TheWallAroundTheWorld": Porgie mocks his cousin and his friends while flying around in his gliding machine by calling out an annoying sound; "Nyah, nyah, nyah".
--> "Nyah, nyah, nyah, you can't catch me!"
* NecessarilyEvil: Creator/CliffordSimak's "{{Literature/Skirmish}}": All human development has been based upon synthetic technology of some kind, and thanks to InstantAIJustAddWater, people must either revert to savagery or knowingly enslave an entire species. (LamarckWasRight isn't an option here--even a ''sewing machine'' comes to life.) They choose to enslave the technology, viewing it as a necessary cost.
* {{Omnibus}}: This book republishes three previous [[GenreAnthology genre anthologies]], ''Penguin Science Fiction'' (1961), ''More Penguin Science Fiction'' (1963), and ''Yet More Penguin Science Fiction'' (1964) in a single ([[{{Doorstopper}} enormous]]) volume.
* OneWordTitle:
** "Literature/{{Answer}}", by Creator/FredricBrown (1954)
** "{{Literature/Counterfeit}}", by Creator/AlanENourse (1952)
** "{{Literature/Fulfillment}}", by Creator/AEVanVogt (1951)
** "{{Literature/Grandpa}}", by Creator/JamesHSchmitz (1955)
** "{{Literature/Jokester}}", by Creator/IsaacAsimov (1956)
** "{{Literature/Lot}}", by Creator/WardMoore (1953)
** "{{Literature/Pyramid}}", by Creator/RobertAbernathy (1954)
** "{{Literature/Skirmish}}", by Creator/CliffordDSimak (1950)
** "Literature/{{Swarm}}", by Creator/BruceSterling (1982)
* SecretTest: Creator/TheodoreRCogswell's "Literature/TheWallAroundTheWorld": The people inside The Wall are learning how to cast magic, honing their minds for generations. However, there's occasionally someone who is willing to ignore magic and builds a machine instead to help them over the wall. If they do that, [[RedBaron the Black Man]] takes them away [[spoiler:to learn about the Outside, with the high-tech machines humans have made]].
* StandardHumanSpaceship: The 1980 cover has an enormous spaceship that looks like an eighteen-wheeler truck with extra cabs stuck onto the back to make it even bigger.
* VichyEarth: Creator/WilliamTenn's "Literature/TheLiberationOfEarth": The narrator describes how an alien race "liberated" Earth, then another alien race liberates Earth from the first aliens, and become the new overlords. Then the first alien race re-liberates Earth, and so on. In the end the whole thing was just a minor skirmish in an on-going galactic war, the aliens take their battle elsewhere and Earth has been reduced to a lop-sided irradiated wasteland.
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