Major Science Fiction Anthologies: A Brief History
By Blue Tyson
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Plenty has been written about the decline of the short story, anthology and collection, and when you read some older books they have been saying the same thing for decades, even in the first issue of Asimov's magazine in 1977.
I have also seen Gardner Dozois write about the acceleration of the 'lack of memory' of past science fiction work. Not too surprising perhaps with the pace of change.
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Major Science Fiction Anthologies - A Brief History
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Copyright 2010 Blue Tyson
Plenty has been written about the decline of the short story, anthology and collection, and when you read some older books they have been saying the same thing for decades, even in the first issue of Asimov's magazine in 1977.
I have also seen Gardner Dozois write about the acceleration of the 'lack of memory' of past science fiction work. Not too surprising perhaps with the pace of change.
I have looked for an article like this for a while, and one may well exist somewhere that I have never seen, or in an obscure journal, fanzine or book. Of the critical works I have seen they are more interested in listing novels, in general.
With less interest in anything not a novel, it explains why fewer people write about anthologies, certainly. If anyone knows of any piece of writing relatively recently by someone far more knowledgeable than I am, I would love to see it. Likewise with suggestions for additions.
A Fantasy version of this article can be found here Major Fantasy Anthologies - Briefer History
So I thought I'd have a go at listing some works that I know about, and others found with some browsing. Of more particular interest is more modern publication, even if not more modern work, that is likely to be more available. I certainly wasn't around in the 40s and 50s and 60s to acquire or read the older volumes, and as such, I am much more likely not to know about books from that time. Part of the point of writing this is for people to point out additions, though. A Super Editor or eidetic memoried bibliographer I am not.
Where I have actually read and rated them, I will put a link after the volume that goes to that for anyone who cares. The editors of the volumes are listed at the end of the article and linked to their isfdb entry for those who would like to check out the contents of the volumes.
A couple more additions and the DAW suggestion.
NINETEENTH CENTURY AND PRE-GERNSBACK
Whether you want to call the start of Science Fiction Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, you will find all those stories online here :-
Project Gutenberg Australia SF Project
Science Fiction (Bookshelf) - ProjectGutenberg
Of particular interest of course is H. G. Wells, but also