Masterpieces

Masterpieces is a collection of twentieth-century science fiction short stories selected and evaluated by Orson Scott Card. The book gathers work from many of the genre’s prominent authors, including Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, William Gibson, Theodore Sturgeon, Larry Niven, Robert Silverberg, George R. R. Martin, and others named in the volume. Card provides a critical essay reassessing science fiction in the twentieth century alongside these stories. The collection looks back across roughly one hundred years of the field to examine where writers have been and how their work imagined the future, offering a range of pieces that mix scientific ideas and fictional approaches to consider humanity’s place in the universe.