Volume 5: The British Way
(White Wolf, March 1998)
Influential British SF published prior to 1986
Contents:
- excerpt from The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir George Tomkyns Chesney
- excerpt from Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
- excerpt from After London; or, Wild England by Richard Jefferies
- "The Doom of London" by Robert Barr
- "A Corner in Lightning" by George Griffith
- "The Country of the Blind", by H. G. Wells
- "As Easy as A.B.C." by Rudyard Kipling
- "A Negligible Experiment", by John D. Beresford
- "The Horror of the Heights", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- "The Rat", by S. Fowler Wright
- excerpt from Star Maker, by Olaf Stapledon
- "The Great Fog", by H. F. Heard
- "Hobbyist", by Eric Frank Russell
- "Dreams Are Sacred", by Peter Phillips
- "Made in U.S.A." by J. T. McIntosh
- "The Star", by Arthur C. Clarke
- "The Emptiness of Space", by John Wyndham
- "The Voices of Time", by J. G. Ballard
- "The Drowned Giant", by J. G. Ballard
- "The Totally Rich", by John Brunner
- "Mouth of Hell", by David I. Masson
- "The Discontinuous" by D. G. Compton
- "It's Smart to Have an English Address" by D. G. Compton
- "The Muse", by Anthony Burgess
- "The Nature of the Catastrophe", by Michael Moorcock
- "The Power of Time", by Josephine Saxton
- "Mason's Life", by Kingsley Amis
- "Settling the World", by M. John Harrison
- "Working in the Spaceship Yards" by Brian W. Aldiss
- "Appearance of Life", by Brian W. Aldiss
- "An Infinite Summer", by Christopher Priest
- "Custom Fitting", by James White
- "Written in Water", by Tanith Lee
- "The Great Atlantic Swimming Race", by Ian Watson
- "And He Not Busy Being Born", by Brian M. Stableford
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