A collection of classic science fiction short stories features tales by H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clark, Frederik Pohl, Clifford Simak, Brian Aldiss, Ursala K. LeGuin, and many others. Edited by the author of The Road to Middle-Earth. 20,000 first printing.

Each story preceded by 1 paragraph of commentary.

Nine short stories combining the genre of science fiction with the subject of Christmas. Stories include spacemen trying to recreate Santa Claus, a gift giving war, a spaceman dealing with a Christmas tree, a Jesuit and astrophysicist who makes a terrible Christmas discovery, and children who can read men's minds.

This collection of the very best in science fiction writing includes work by pioneers such as Jules Verne and H.G. Wells alongside that of modern masters such as Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke and Ursula Le Guin.

This anthology contains fourteen intriguing stories by active research scientists and other writers trained in science. Science is at the heart of real science fiction, which is more than just westerns with ray guns or fantasy with spaceships. The people who do science and love science best are scientists. Scientists like Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Fred Hoyle wrote some of the legendary tales of golden age science fiction. Today there is a new generation of scientists writing science fiction informed with the expertise of their fields, from astrophysics to computer science, biochemistry to rocket science, quantum physics to genetics, speculating about what is possible in our universe. Here lies the sense of wonder only science can deliver. All the stories in this volume are supplemented by afterwords commenting on the science underlying each story.