3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction

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Title 3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction

Dust-jacket illustration of 3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Author	edited by L. Sprague deCamp and Catherine Crook de Camp
Cover artist	Emanuel Schongut
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Fantasy and Science fiction short stories
Publisher	Lothrop Lee & Shepard
Released	1972
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	256 pp
ISBN	NA

3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction is an anthology of fantasy and science fiction short stories, edited by L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp. It was first published in both hardcover and paperback by Lothrop Lee & Shepard in 1972. It was the first such anthology assembled by the de Camps, preceding their later Tales Beyond Time (1973).

The book collects eleven tales by various authors, with a foreword by Isaac Asimov and an overall introduction by the de Camps.

[edit] Contents

• "Why Read Science Fiction? (Foreword)" (Isaac Asimov)
• "Introduction–Beyond the World We Know" (L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp)
• "The Odyssey" (excerpt) (Homer)
• "Timaios" (excerpt) (Plato)
• "A Journey to the Moon" (abridged) (Cyrano de Bergerac, abridged and translated by L. Sprague de Camp)
• "The New Accelerator" (H. G. Wells)
• "The Cats of Ulthar" (H. P. Lovecraft)
• "A Martian Odyssey" (Stanley G. Weinbaum)
• "Helen O'Loy" (Lester del Rey)
• "The Cold Equations" (Tom Godwin)
• "A Gun for Dinosaur" (L. Sprague de Camp)
• "Before Eden" (Arthur C. Clarke)
• "The Last Question" (Isaac Asimov)

[edit] References

• Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller, 114-115.