Influential British SF published prior to 1986
Contents:
* Preface by James Gunn
* Introduction (all introductions by James Gunn)
* Beginnings: From Frankenstein to Dorking
* From The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir George Tomkyns Chesney -- Blackwood's May, 1871
* A Matter of Perspective
* From Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott -- London: Seely & Co., 1884
* The Craving for Catastrophe
* From After London; or, Wild England by Richard Jefferies -- Cassell's, 1885
* The Medium and the Message
* "The Doom of London" by Robert Barr -- The Idler November 1892
* Fin de Siècle
* "A Corner in Lightning" by George Griffith -- Pearson's Magazine March 1898
* The Man Who Invented Tomorrow
* "The Country of the Blind", by H. G. Wells -- The Strand April 1904
* Currents in the Mainstream
* "As Easy as A.B.C." by Rudyard Kipling -- The London Magazine March 1912 (+1)
* The Great War and Its Aftermath
* "A Negligible Experiment", by John D. Beresford -- Signs and Wonders, Putnam, 1921
* More Things in Heaven and Earth
* "The Horror of the Heights", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Strand November 1913
* "The Rat", by S. Fowler Wright -- Weird Tales March 1929
* excerpt from The Star Maker, by Olaf Stapledon -- London: Methuen, 1937
* "The Great Fog", by H. F. Heard -- The Great Fog and Other Weird Tales, Vanguard, 1944
* "Hobbyist", by Eric Frank Russell -- Astounding September 1947
* "Dreams Are Sacred", by Peter Phillips -- Astounding September 1948
* "Made in U.S.A." by J. T. McIntosh -- Galaxy April 1953
* "The Star (Star of Bethlehem)", by Arthur C. Clarke -- Infinity Science Fiction November 1955
* "The Emptiness of Space [Troons]", by John Wyndham -- New Worlds November 1960
* "The Voices of Time", by J. G. Ballard -- New Worlds October 1960
* "The Drowned Giant", by J. G. Ballard -- The Terminal Beach, London: Gollancz, 1964
* "The Totally Rich", by John Brunner -- Worlds of Tomorrow June 1963
* "Mouth of Hell", by David I. Masson -- New Worlds January 1966
* "The Discontinuous" by D.G. Compton
* "It's Smart to Have an English Address" by D. G. Compton -- sf Impulse February 1967
* "The Muse", by Anthony Burgess -- The Hudson Review Spring 1968
* "The Nature of the Catastrophe" by Jerry Cornelius, by Michael Moorcock -- New Worlds January 1970
* "The Power of Time", by Josephine Saxton -- New Dimensions I, ed. Robert Silverberg, Doubleday, 1971
* "Mason's Life", by Kingsley Amis -- The Sunday Times (London), 1972
* "Settling the World", by M. John Harrison -- The New Improved Sun, ed. Thomas M. Disch, Harper, 1975
* "Working in the Spaceship Yards" by Brian W. Aldiss -- Punch April 9 1969
* "Appearance of Life", by Brian W. Aldiss -- Andromeda 1, ed. Peter Weston, London: Futura, 1976
* "An Infinite Summer", by Christopher Priest -- Andromeda 1, ed. Peter Weston, London: Futura, 1976
* "Custom Fitting [Sector General]", by James White -- Stellar #2, ed. Judy-Lynn del Rey, Ballantine, 1976
* "Written in Water", by Tanith Lee -- Perpetual Light, ed. Alan Ryan, Warner Books, 1982
* "The Great Atlantic Swimming Race", by Ian Watson -- IASFM March 1986
* "And He Not Busy Being Born", by Brian M. Stableford -- Interzone #16 1986
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