Amazon.com
This is the fourth volume of James Gunn's critical anthology series, The Road to Science Fiction, and like its predecessors it is packed with some of the best stories ever published. There are 33 pieces in all, written by acknowledged masters such as Walter M. Miller, Stanislaw Lem, James Tiptree Jr., Thomas M. Disch and Gregory Benford. In this volume Gunn has dropped the theme of "importance to the genre" and instead favored "quality of writing" because, he says, it's too soon to say what far-reaching impact these stories will have. If Gunn's any judge, they will have quite a bit.
Analog
...it remains as successful a survey of recent SF as one could wish, essential to every library and every scholar or teacher of the field.
Ingram
Called "the best historical anthology of SF ever assembled" by Anatomy of Wonder, the books of this series present stories from the earliest days of science fiction through a group of engrossing and skillfully written stories, ranging from Richard Matheson's 1950 "Born of Man and Woman" to George Alec Effinger's 1988 "Schroedinger's Kitten.".
