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This 1978 GenreAnthology by editor Creator/DonaldLLawler is full of ConversationalTroping, as Lawler breaks down ScienceFictionLiterature into five major parts; [[UrExample ur-examples]] of ScienceFiction, ScienceFantasy, [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness "hard" versus "soft" science fiction]], and GenreBusting SpeculativeFiction.
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This 1978 GenreAnthology by editor Creator/DonaldLLawler is full of ConversationalTroping, as Lawler breaks down ScienceFictionLiterature into five major parts; [[UrExample ur-examples]] of ScienceFiction, ScienceFantasy, [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness "hard" versus "soft" science fiction]], fiction, and GenreBusting SpeculativeFiction.
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Each section is again broken down into popular aspects of their respective impacts on the genre, with Lawler describing how each category made an impact on the genre as a whole. SpaceOpera, {{Robot}}s, [[AlienTropes aliens]], the {{Utopia}}[=/=]{{Dystopia}} settings, and the way authors have begun to mix ScienceFiction with other genres, including SciFiHorror.
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Each section is again broken down into popular aspects of their respective impacts on the genre, with Lawler describing how each category made an impact on the genre as a whole. SpaceOpera, {{Robot}}s, Robots, [[AlienTropes aliens]], the {{Utopia}}[=/=]{{Dystopia}} settings, and the way authors have begun to mix ScienceFiction with other genres, including SciFiHorror.
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This 1978 GenreAnthology by editor Creator/DonaldLLawler is full of ConversationalTroping, as Lawler breaks down ScienceFictionLiterature into five major parts; [[UrExample ur-examples]] of ScienceFiction, ScienceFantasy, [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness "hard" versus "soft" science fiction]], and GenreBusting SpeculativeFiction.
Each section is again broken down into popular aspects of their respective impacts on the genre, with Lawler describing how each category made an impact on the genre as a whole. SpaceOpera, {{Robot}}s, [[AlienTropes aliens]], the {{Utopia}}[=/=]{{Dystopia}} settings, and the way authors have begun to mix ScienceFiction with other genres, including SciFiHorror.
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!Works published in this {{Anthology}}:
!!Part 1: Nineteenth-Century Backgrounds
* "{{Literature/Darkness}}", by Creator/LordByron
* "{{Literature/Frankenstein}}" (excerpt), by Creator/MaryShelley
* "Literature/SomeWordsWithAMummy", by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe
* "Literature/TheBirthmark", by Creator/NathanielHawthorne
* "Literature/TheStar", by Creator/HGWells
!!Part 2: Fantasy Science Fiction
!!!Space Opera
* "Literature/EnchantressOfVenus", by Creator/LeighBrackett
!!!Speculative Fantasy Science Fiction
* "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!", by Creator/RayBradbury
* "Literature/EncounterInTheDawn", by Creator/ArthurCClarke
!!!Weird Science Fiction
* "Literature/TheNineBillionNamesOfGod", by Creator/ArthurCClarke
* "Literature/TheMindworm", by Creator/CyrilKornbluth
!!!Time Travel and Parallel Worlds
* "Literature/AllYouZombies", by Creator/RobertAHeinlein
* "Literature/AllTheMyriadWays", by Creator/LarryNiven
!!Part 3: Hard Science Fiction
!!!Speculative Hard Science Fiction
* "Literature/TheColdEquations", by Creator/TomGodwin
* "Literature/DarkBenediction", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr
!!!Aliens
* "{{Literature/Berom}}", by Creator/JohnBerryman
* "Literature/FirstContact", by Creator/MurrayLeinster
!!!Robots
* "Literature/Liar1941", by Creator/IsaacAsimov
* "Literature/HappyEnding", by Creator/HenryKuttner
!!Part 4: Soft Science Fiction
!!!Speculative Soft Science Fiction
* "Literature/NineLives", by Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin
* "Literature/TheSlicedCrosswiseOnlyOnTuesdayWorld", by Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer
!!!Utopias and Dystopias
* "Literature/WhenTheVerticalWorldBecomesHorizontal", by Creator/AlexeiPanshin
* "Literature/TheStarBeast", by Creator/PoulAnderson
!!!Social Science Fiction
* "Literature/BabyYouWereGreat!", by Creator/KateWilhelm
* "Literature/ComingAttraction", by Creator/FritzLeiber
!!Part 5: Science Fiction Mixtures
!!!Mystery and Horror Science Fiction
* "Literature/WhoGoesThere", by Creator/DonAStuart
!!!Comic Science Fiction
* "Literature/ZirnLeftUnguardedTheJenghikPalaceInFlamesJonWesterleyDead", by Creator/RobertSheckley
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!!This {{Anthology}} provides examples of:
* AdaptationDistillation:
** An excerpt of Creator/MaryShelley's novel, "{{Literature/Frankenstein}}", is included during "Part 1: Nineteenth-Century Backgrounds".
** The original {{novelette}} of Creator/RobertAHeinlein's "Literature/TheStarBeast" is used, instead of the mroe expanded {{novel}} which had been published in 1954, and would also have been accessible.
* ApocalypseHow: In "Literature/TheNineBillionNamesOfGod", the lamas believe that when they have finished recording all of the names of God, their purpose will be done. The computer engineer figures they mean [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX the end of the earth]], but they really mean [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX4 the end of everything]].
* {{Doorstopper}}: Even with restricting itself to [[AdaptationDistillation excerpts]] of the novel-length fiction, this book adds up to over 570 pages.
* DownerEnding: Creator/RayBradbury's "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": The explorers land on Mars and find [[NostalgiaHeaven all their deceased relatives, apparently alive and well]], until the captain of the ship realizes something was amiss, and the shapeshifting [[TelepathicSpacemen telepathic Martians]] go on a killing spree.
* EarthAllAlong: Creator/ArthurCClarke's "Literature/EncounterInTheDawn": In this ShortStory, a FirstContact situation occurs between a technologically advanced galaxy-spanning empire and a primitive caveman tribe on a backwater planet. The description of the explorers is humans in the StandardSciFiSetting, however when the survey team is recalled, it is revealed that the cavemen they interacted with would eventually build the city of Babylon.
* ExcitedShowTitle: Creator/RayBradbury's "[[Literature/MarsIsHeaven Mars Is Heaven!]]"
* InterstellarWeapon: In "Literature/TheStar", a ShortStory by Creator/HGWells, when the [[SwitchingPOV perspective changes]] to the Martian astronomers, it's suddenly revealed that [[TheNamesake the titular star]] was actually a missile that had been fired from outside the solar system.
* LongTitle: Creator/RobertSheckley's "[[Literature/ZirnLeftUnguardedTheJenghikPalaceInFlamesJonWesterleyDead Zirn Left Unguarded, the Jenghik Palace in Flames, Jon Westerley Dead]]" (Yes, that is just one title, not three, despite appearances.)
* LotusEaterMachine: Creator/RayBradbury's "[[Literature/MarsIsHeaven Mars Is Heaven!]]": Part of ''Literature/TheMartianChronicles'', this story starts out as a sort of OntologicalMystery in the beginning. A crew from Earth land on Mars, which looks like Ohio at the turn of the 20th century. However, their [[NostalgiaHeaven long lost dead relatives start appearing]], and everyone gets lost in the excitement of seeing old faces again. It has a DownerEnding: [[spoiler: the residents of the town are shape-shifting [[TelepathicSpacemen telepathic Martians]] who put up the facade to throw the spacemen off guard. It works: [[SlainInTheirSleep that night, just as the Captain is beginning to realize this, his "brother" turns into an alien and stabs him to death]]. The same thing happens all over town. The next day, they have a funeral for the spacemen... and then take on their true forms and gleefully tear the ship apart.]]
* MasterOfIllusion: Creator/RayBradbury's "[[Literature/MarsIsHeaven Mars Is Heaven!]]": An expedition to Mars is surprised to find an Earth village populated by all their deceased relatives, only to realize too late [[LotusEaterMachine it's a trap]] designed to lure them outside their rocketship so they can be easily murdered.
* {{Mummy}}: Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's "Literature/SomeWordsWithAMummy": This is an unusual case where the mummy isn't [[TheUndead Undead]]- he [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum went into a cataleptic state and didn't come out for thousands of years]]. Since he was of a particular group known as the Scarabeus, he was fortunate enough not to get his internal organs removed during embalming.
* NostalgiaHeaven: Creator/RayBradbury's "[[Literature/MarsIsHeaven Mars Is Heaven!]]": Some explorers land on Mars and are stunned to find their childhood hometown, populated by all their deceased relatives, very much alive and well. [[spoiler:[[LotusEaterMachine It's a trick]].]]
* OneWordTitle:
** "{{Literature/Berom}}", by Creator/JohnBerryman
** "{{Literature/Darkness}}", by Creator/LordByron
** "{{Literature/Frankenstein}}", by Creator/MaryShelley
* OurNudityIsDifferent: Creator/FritzLeiber's "Literature/ComingAttraction": Being topless is fine for a woman... so long as she wears a mask.
* TheShangriLa: In Creator/ArthurCClarke's "Literature/TheNineBillionNamesOfGod", the Tibetan lamasery is accessible by air, and in a subversion of typical expectations, has been embracing the way technology can be used to assist in their worship. They've even hired a couple of computer engineers to program a printer to output every name of God.
* SwitchingPOV: In "Literature/TheStar", a ShortStory by Creator/HGWells, the story is in omniscient third-person, describing how events play out from Earth's perspective. For the very last paragraph, however, the perspective shifts to {{UsefulNotes/Mars}}, explaining their perception of the recent events.
* TelepathicSpacemen: Creator/RayBradbury's "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": The [[{{Telepathy}} telepathic]] Martians create a LotusEaterMachine to trap the crew of a human spaceship until [[SlainInTheirSleep they're all asleep, so the Martians can murder them easily]].
* UpTheRealRabbitHole: Creator/LarryNiven's "Literature/AllTheMyriadWays": This story is set in a world where travellers to parallel universes report worlds where the Cuba War was "a damp squib" (called the [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheColdWar Cuban Missile Crisis]]) and return with different technology such as the stapler.
* VenusIsWet: Creator/LeighBrackett's "Literature/EnchantressOfVenus": In this story, {{UsefulNotes/Venus}} is warm, wet, and cloudy; most of its surface is ocean or low-lying swamp.
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Each section is again broken down into popular aspects of their respective impacts on the genre, with Lawler describing how each category made an impact on the genre as a whole. SpaceOpera, {{Robot}}s, [[AlienTropes aliens]], the {{Utopia}}[=/=]{{Dystopia}} settings, and the way authors have begun to mix ScienceFiction with other genres, including SciFiHorror.
----
!Works published in this {{Anthology}}:
!!Part 1: Nineteenth-Century Backgrounds
* "{{Literature/Darkness}}", by Creator/LordByron
* "{{Literature/Frankenstein}}" (excerpt), by Creator/MaryShelley
* "Literature/SomeWordsWithAMummy", by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe
* "Literature/TheBirthmark", by Creator/NathanielHawthorne
* "Literature/TheStar", by Creator/HGWells
!!Part 2: Fantasy Science Fiction
!!!Space Opera
* "Literature/EnchantressOfVenus", by Creator/LeighBrackett
!!!Speculative Fantasy Science Fiction
* "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!", by Creator/RayBradbury
* "Literature/EncounterInTheDawn", by Creator/ArthurCClarke
!!!Weird Science Fiction
* "Literature/TheNineBillionNamesOfGod", by Creator/ArthurCClarke
* "Literature/TheMindworm", by Creator/CyrilKornbluth
!!!Time Travel and Parallel Worlds
* "Literature/AllYouZombies", by Creator/RobertAHeinlein
* "Literature/AllTheMyriadWays", by Creator/LarryNiven
!!Part 3: Hard Science Fiction
!!!Speculative Hard Science Fiction
* "Literature/TheColdEquations", by Creator/TomGodwin
* "Literature/DarkBenediction", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr
!!!Aliens
* "{{Literature/Berom}}", by Creator/JohnBerryman
* "Literature/FirstContact", by Creator/MurrayLeinster
!!!Robots
* "Literature/Liar1941", by Creator/IsaacAsimov
* "Literature/HappyEnding", by Creator/HenryKuttner
!!Part 4: Soft Science Fiction
!!!Speculative Soft Science Fiction
* "Literature/NineLives", by Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin
* "Literature/TheSlicedCrosswiseOnlyOnTuesdayWorld", by Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer
!!!Utopias and Dystopias
* "Literature/WhenTheVerticalWorldBecomesHorizontal", by Creator/AlexeiPanshin
* "Literature/TheStarBeast", by Creator/PoulAnderson
!!!Social Science Fiction
* "Literature/BabyYouWereGreat!", by Creator/KateWilhelm
* "Literature/ComingAttraction", by Creator/FritzLeiber
!!Part 5: Science Fiction Mixtures
!!!Mystery and Horror Science Fiction
* "Literature/WhoGoesThere", by Creator/DonAStuart
!!!Comic Science Fiction
* "Literature/ZirnLeftUnguardedTheJenghikPalaceInFlamesJonWesterleyDead", by Creator/RobertSheckley
----
!!This {{Anthology}} provides examples of:
* AdaptationDistillation:
** An excerpt of Creator/MaryShelley's novel, "{{Literature/Frankenstein}}", is included during "Part 1: Nineteenth-Century Backgrounds".
** The original {{novelette}} of Creator/RobertAHeinlein's "Literature/TheStarBeast" is used, instead of the mroe expanded {{novel}} which had been published in 1954, and would also have been accessible.
* ApocalypseHow: In "Literature/TheNineBillionNamesOfGod", the lamas believe that when they have finished recording all of the names of God, their purpose will be done. The computer engineer figures they mean [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX the end of the earth]], but they really mean [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX4 the end of everything]].
* {{Doorstopper}}: Even with restricting itself to [[AdaptationDistillation excerpts]] of the novel-length fiction, this book adds up to over 570 pages.
* DownerEnding: Creator/RayBradbury's "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": The explorers land on Mars and find [[NostalgiaHeaven all their deceased relatives, apparently alive and well]], until the captain of the ship realizes something was amiss, and the shapeshifting [[TelepathicSpacemen telepathic Martians]] go on a killing spree.
* EarthAllAlong: Creator/ArthurCClarke's "Literature/EncounterInTheDawn": In this ShortStory, a FirstContact situation occurs between a technologically advanced galaxy-spanning empire and a primitive caveman tribe on a backwater planet. The description of the explorers is humans in the StandardSciFiSetting, however when the survey team is recalled, it is revealed that the cavemen they interacted with would eventually build the city of Babylon.
* ExcitedShowTitle: Creator/RayBradbury's "[[Literature/MarsIsHeaven Mars Is Heaven!]]"
* InterstellarWeapon: In "Literature/TheStar", a ShortStory by Creator/HGWells, when the [[SwitchingPOV perspective changes]] to the Martian astronomers, it's suddenly revealed that [[TheNamesake the titular star]] was actually a missile that had been fired from outside the solar system.
* LongTitle: Creator/RobertSheckley's "[[Literature/ZirnLeftUnguardedTheJenghikPalaceInFlamesJonWesterleyDead Zirn Left Unguarded, the Jenghik Palace in Flames, Jon Westerley Dead]]" (Yes, that is just one title, not three, despite appearances.)
* LotusEaterMachine: Creator/RayBradbury's "[[Literature/MarsIsHeaven Mars Is Heaven!]]": Part of ''Literature/TheMartianChronicles'', this story starts out as a sort of OntologicalMystery in the beginning. A crew from Earth land on Mars, which looks like Ohio at the turn of the 20th century. However, their [[NostalgiaHeaven long lost dead relatives start appearing]], and everyone gets lost in the excitement of seeing old faces again. It has a DownerEnding: [[spoiler: the residents of the town are shape-shifting [[TelepathicSpacemen telepathic Martians]] who put up the facade to throw the spacemen off guard. It works: [[SlainInTheirSleep that night, just as the Captain is beginning to realize this, his "brother" turns into an alien and stabs him to death]]. The same thing happens all over town. The next day, they have a funeral for the spacemen... and then take on their true forms and gleefully tear the ship apart.]]
* MasterOfIllusion: Creator/RayBradbury's "[[Literature/MarsIsHeaven Mars Is Heaven!]]": An expedition to Mars is surprised to find an Earth village populated by all their deceased relatives, only to realize too late [[LotusEaterMachine it's a trap]] designed to lure them outside their rocketship so they can be easily murdered.
* {{Mummy}}: Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's "Literature/SomeWordsWithAMummy": This is an unusual case where the mummy isn't [[TheUndead Undead]]- he [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum went into a cataleptic state and didn't come out for thousands of years]]. Since he was of a particular group known as the Scarabeus, he was fortunate enough not to get his internal organs removed during embalming.
* NostalgiaHeaven: Creator/RayBradbury's "[[Literature/MarsIsHeaven Mars Is Heaven!]]": Some explorers land on Mars and are stunned to find their childhood hometown, populated by all their deceased relatives, very much alive and well. [[spoiler:[[LotusEaterMachine It's a trick]].]]
* OneWordTitle:
** "{{Literature/Berom}}", by Creator/JohnBerryman
** "{{Literature/Darkness}}", by Creator/LordByron
** "{{Literature/Frankenstein}}", by Creator/MaryShelley
* OurNudityIsDifferent: Creator/FritzLeiber's "Literature/ComingAttraction": Being topless is fine for a woman... so long as she wears a mask.
* TheShangriLa: In Creator/ArthurCClarke's "Literature/TheNineBillionNamesOfGod", the Tibetan lamasery is accessible by air, and in a subversion of typical expectations, has been embracing the way technology can be used to assist in their worship. They've even hired a couple of computer engineers to program a printer to output every name of God.
* SwitchingPOV: In "Literature/TheStar", a ShortStory by Creator/HGWells, the story is in omniscient third-person, describing how events play out from Earth's perspective. For the very last paragraph, however, the perspective shifts to {{UsefulNotes/Mars}}, explaining their perception of the recent events.
* TelepathicSpacemen: Creator/RayBradbury's "Literature/MarsIsHeaven!": The [[{{Telepathy}} telepathic]] Martians create a LotusEaterMachine to trap the crew of a human spaceship until [[SlainInTheirSleep they're all asleep, so the Martians can murder them easily]].
* UpTheRealRabbitHole: Creator/LarryNiven's "Literature/AllTheMyriadWays": This story is set in a world where travellers to parallel universes report worlds where the Cuba War was "a damp squib" (called the [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheColdWar Cuban Missile Crisis]]) and return with different technology such as the stapler.
* VenusIsWet: Creator/LeighBrackett's "Literature/EnchantressOfVenus": In this story, {{UsefulNotes/Venus}} is warm, wet, and cloudy; most of its surface is ocean or low-lying swamp.
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