{"id":11680,"date":"2017-12-29T15:22:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T20:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=11680"},"modified":"2020-01-09T21:20:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T02:20:12","slug":"sf-fantasy-collections-anthologies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/sf-fantasy-collections-anthologies-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SF &#038; fantasy collections &#038; anthologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an update to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/sf-fantasy-collections-anthologies\/\">this<\/a> list.<\/p>\n<h2>Collections<\/h2>\n<p>Best of the best<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I, Robot \u2013 Isaac Asimov<\/li>\n<li>Nightfall \u2013 Isaac Asimov<\/li>\n<li>Virtual Unrealities \u2013 Alfred Bester<\/li>\n<li>The Golden Apples of the Sun \u2013 Ray Bradbury<\/li>\n<li>Keeper of Dreams \u2013 Orson Scott Card<\/li>\n<li>Maps in a Mirror \u2013 Orson Scott Card<\/li>\n<li>Stories of Your Life and Others \u2013 Ted Chiang<\/li>\n<li>Expedition to Earth \u2013 Arthur C. Clarke<\/li>\n<li>The Nine Billion Names of God \u2013 Arthur C. Clarke<\/li>\n<li>Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick \u2013 Philip K. Dick<\/li>\n<li>Daughter of Regals &amp; Other Tales \u2013 Stephen R. Donaldson<\/li>\n<li>Gravity Wells \u2013 James Alan Gardner<\/li>\n<li>The Birthday of the World and Other Stories \u2013 Ursula K. Le Guin<\/li>\n<li>The Wind\u2019s Twelve Quarters \u2013 Ursula K. Le Guin<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/the-paper-menagerie-and-other-stories\/\">The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories<\/a> \u2013 Ken Liu<\/li>\n<li>Identity Theft and Other Stories \u2013 Robert J. Sawyer<\/li>\n<li>Iterations \u2013 Robert J. Sawyer<\/li>\n<li>Over the River &amp; Through the Woods \u2013 Clifford D. Simak<\/li>\n<li>The Perseids and Other Stories \u2013 Robert Charles Wilson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Runner ups<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/gold\/\">Gold<\/a> \u2013 Isaac Asimov<\/li>\n<li>Redemolished \u2013 Alfred Bester<\/li>\n<li>First Meetings \u2013 Orson Scott Card<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/elements\/\">Elements<\/a> \u2013 Suzanne Church<\/li>\n<li>Eye \u2013 Frank Herbert<\/li>\n<li>The Other Wind \u2013 Ursula K. Le Guin<\/li>\n<li>The Best of Walter M. Miller, Jr. \u2013 Walter M. Miller, Jr.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/counting-tadpoles\/\">Counting Tadpoles<\/a> \u2013 Uncle River<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/the-engine-of-recall\/\">The Engine of Recall<\/a> \u2013 Karl Schroeder<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/the-dying-earth\/\">The Dying Earth<\/a> \u2013 Jack Vance<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/this-is-the-year-zero\/\">This is the Year Zero<\/a> \u2013 Andrew Weiner<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/the-aliens-among-us\/\">The Aliens Among Us<\/a> \u2013 James White<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/impossible-things\/\">Impossible Things<\/a> \u2013 Connie Willis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Honourable mentions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/burning-chrome\/\">Burning Chrome<\/a> \u2013 William Gibson<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/callahans-crosstime-saloon\/\">Callahan&#8217;s Crosstime Saloon<\/a> \u2013 Spider Robinson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Anthologies<\/h2>\n<p>Best of the best<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seeds of Change \u2013 ed. John Joseph Adams<\/li>\n<li>Masterpieces \u2013 ed. Orson Scott Card<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/one-million-a-d\/\">One Million A. D.<\/a> \u2013 ed. Gardner Dozois<\/li>\n<li>Give Me Liberty \u2013 ed. Martin Harry Greenberg &amp; Mark Tier<\/li>\n<li>The Road to Science Fiction Volume 4: From Here to Forever \u2013 ed. James Gunn<\/li>\n<li>The Savage Humanists \u2013 ed. Fiona Kelleghan<\/li>\n<li>The Bakka Anthology \u2013 ed. Kristen Pederson Chew<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Runner ups<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Best of Crank! \u2013 ed. Brian Cholfin<\/li>\n<li>Isaac Asimov&#8217;s Utopias \u2013 ed. Gardner Dozois &amp; Sheila Williams<\/li>\n<li>Dangerous Visions \u2013 ed. Harlan Ellison<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/space-opera\/\">Space Opera<\/a> \u2013 ed. Rich Horton<\/li>\n<li>Crossing the Line \u2013 ed. Robert J. Sawyer &amp; David Skene-Melvin<\/li>\n<li>Welcome to the Greenhouse \u2013 ed. Gordon Van Gelder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Honourable mentions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/shine\/\">Shine<\/a> \u2013 ed. Jetse de Vries<\/li>\n<li>Dinosaur Fantastic \u2013 ed. Mike Resnick &amp; Martin H. Greenberg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an update to this list. Collections Best of the best I, Robot \u2013 Isaac Asimov Nightfall \u2013 Isaac Asimov Virtual Unrealities \u2013 Alfred Bester The Golden Apples of the Sun \u2013 Ray Bradbury Keeper of Dreams \u2013 Orson Scott Card Maps in a Mirror \u2013 Orson Scott Card Stories of Your Life and Others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[29,7,27,9,42,8,44],"class_list":["post-11680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-anthologies","tag-book","tag-collections","tag-fantasy","tag-lists","tag-science-fiction","tag-short-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11680"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15409,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11680\/revisions\/15409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}