VanderMeer, Jeff and Ann (ed.) - The Big Book of Science Fiction / Вандермеер, Джефф и Энн (ред.) - Большая книга НФ [2016, EPUB, ENG]

Introduction by Jeff VanderMeer and Ann VanderMeer The Star / Звезда by H. G. Wells Sultana's Dream by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain The Triumph of Mechanics by Karl Hans Strobl The New Overworld by Paul Scheerbart Elements of Pataphysics by Alfred Jarry Mechanopolis by Miguel de Unamuno The Doom of Principal City / Гибель Главного города by Yefim Zozulya The Comet by W. E. B. Du Bois The Fate of the Poseidonia by Clare Winger Harris The Star Stealers / Похитители звёзд by Edmond Hamilton The Conquest of Gola by Leslie F. Stone A Martian Odyssey by Stanley G. Weinbaum The Last Poet and the Robots by A. Merritt The Microscopic Giants by Paul Ernst Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius / Тлён, Укбар, Орбис Терциус by Jorge Luis Borges Desertion / Дезертирство by Clifford D. Simak September 2005: The Martian / Марсианин by Ray Bradbury Baby HP by Juan Jose Arreola Surface Tension by James Blish Beyond Lies the Wub / Вкус Уаба by Philip K. Dick The Snowball Effect by Katherine MacLean Prott by Margaret St. Clair The Liberation of Earth / Освобождение Земли by William Tenn Let Me Live in a House / Разрешите мне жить в доме by Chad Oliver The Star / Звезда by Arthur C. Clarke Grandpa / Дедушка by James H. Schmitz The Game of Rat and Dragon / Игра с крысодраконом by Cordwainer Smith The Last Question / Последний вопрос by Isaac Asimov Stranger Station / Станция «Чужак» by Damon Knight Sector General / Главный госпиталь сектора by James White The Visitors / Извне by Boris Strugatsky and Arkady Strugatsky Pelt by Carol Emshwiller The Monster by Gerard Klein The Man Who Lost the Sea by Theodore Sturgeon The Waves by Silvina Ocampo Plenitude by Will Mohler The Voices of Time / Голоса времени by J. G. Ballard The Astronaut / Астронавт by Valentina Zhuravlyova The Squid Chooses Its Own Ink / Кальмар выбирает где глубже by Adolfo Bioy Casares 2 B R 0 2 B by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. A Modest Genius / Скромный гений by Vadim Shefner Day of Wrath / День гнева by Sever Gansovsky The Hands by John Baxter Darkness by Andre Carneiro "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman / «Покайся, Арлекин!» — сказал Тиктакщик by Harlan Ellison Nine Hundred Grandmothers / Девять сотен бабушек by R. A. Lafferty Day Million / Миллионный день by Frederik Pohl Student Body by F. L. Wallace Aye, and Gomorrah / Да, и Гоморра... by Samuel R. Delany The Hall of Machines by Langdon Jones Soft Clocks / Мягкие часы by Yoshio Aramaki No Cracks or Sagging by David R. Bunch New Kings Are Not for Laughing by David R. Bunch The Flesh Man from Far Wide by David R. Bunch Let Us Save the Universe (An Open Letter from Ijon Tichy) / Спасём Космос! (Открытое письмо Ийона Тихого) by Stanislaw Lem Vaster Than Empires and More Slow / Обширней и медлительней империй by Ursula K. Le Guin Good News from the Vatican / Добрые вести из Ватикана by Robert Silverberg When It Changed / Когда всё изменилось by Joanna Russ And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side / И я очнулся поутру на диком склоне by James Tiptree, Jr. Where Two Paths Cross / Пересечение пути by Dmitri Bilenkin Standing Woman / Одиноко растущая женщина by Yasutaka Tsutsui The IWM 1000 by Alicia Yanez Cossio The House of Compassionate Sharers by Michael Bishop Sporting with the Chid by Barrington J. Bayley Sandkings / Короли-пустынники by George R. R. Martin Wives by Lisa Tuttle The Snake Who Had Read Chomsky by Josephine Saxton Reiko's Universe Box by Kajio Shinji Swarm / Рой by Bruce Sterling Mondocane by Jacques Barberi Blood Music / Музыка, звучащая в крови by Greg Bear Bloodchild / Мы все — одна семья... by Octavia E. Butler Variation on a Man by Pat Cadigan Passing as a Flower in the City of the Dead by Sharon N. Farber New Rose Hotel / Отель «Новая роза» by William Gibson Pots by C. J. Cherryh Snow by John Crowley The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things by Karen Joy Fowler The Unmistakable Smell of Wood Violets / Фиолетовые пятна by Angelica Gorodischer The Owl of Bear Island by Jon Bing Readers of the Lost Art by Elisabeth Vonarburg A Gift from the Culture / Дар Культуры by Iain M. Banks Paranamanco by Jean-Claude Dunyach Crying in the Rain by Tanith Lee The Frozen Cardinal by Michael Moorcock Rachel in Love / Влюблённая Рашель by Pat Murphy Sharing Air by Manjula Padmanabhan Schwarzschild Radius by Connie Willis All the Hues of Hell by Gene Wolfe Vacuum States by Geoffrey A. Landis Two Small Birds by Han Song Burning Sky by Rachel Pollack Before I Wake / Прежде, чем я проснусь by Kim Stanley Robinson Death Is Static Death Is Movement by Misha Nogha The Brains of Rats by Michael Blumlein Gorgonoids by Leena Krohn Vacancy for the Post of Jesus Christ by Kojo Laing The Universe of Things by Gwyneth Jones The Remoras / Реморы by Robert Reed The Ghost Standard / Балдёжный критерий by William Tenn Remnants of the Virago Crypto-System by Geoffrey Maloney How Alex Became a Machine by Stepan Chapman The Poetry Cloud by Cixin Liu Story of Your Life / История твоей жизни by Ted Chiang Craphound / Старьёвщик by Cory Doctorow The Slynx (excerpt) / Кысь by Tatyana Tolstaya Baby Doll by Johanna Sinisalo

The clang of metal echoed hollowly down through the station’s many vaulted corridors and rooms. Paul Wesson stood listening for a moment as the rolling echoes died away. The maintenance rocket was gone, heading back to Home; they had left him alone in Stranger Station. Stranger Station! The name itself quickened his imagination. Wesson knew that both orbital stations had been named a century ago by the then-British administration of the satellite service; “Home” because the larger, inner station handled the traffic of Earth and its colonies; “Stranger” because the outer station was designed specifically for dealings with foreigners—beings from outside the solar system. But even that could not diminish the wonder of Stranger Station, whirling out here alone in the dark—waiting for its once-in-two-decades visitor…. One man, out of all Sol’s billions, had the task and privilege of enduring the alien’s presence when it came. The two races, according to Wesson’s understanding of the subject, were so fundamentally different that it was painful for them to meet. Well, he had volunteered for the job, and he thought he could handle it—the rewards were big enough. He had gone through all the tests, and against his own expectations he had been chosen. The maintenance crew had brought him up as dead weight, drugged in a survival hamper; they had kept him the same way while they did their work and then had brought him back to consciousness. Now they were gone. He was alone. But not quite. . . .