The Road To Science Fiction - Volume 5: The British Way

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