THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF 20TH CENTURY SCIENCE FICTION VOL. 1

So says David G. Hartwell in his introduction to The Science FictionCentury, an anthology spanning a hundred years of science fiction writing,from its birth in the 1890's to the future it predicted. Hartwell hascompiled the mother of all definitive anthologies, guaranteed to changenot only the way the science fiction field views itself but also the waythe rest of literature views the field.