Book Description
Compares what writers over the centuries have written about an imaginary future with the reality revealed by time.
Author : Richard Hantula
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,81 MB
Release : 2004-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780836839524
Compares what writers over the centuries have written about an imaginary future with the reality revealed by time.
Author : Sheila Williams
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 20,50 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
A collection of seventeen science fiction stories by authors including Frederik Pohl, Isaac Asimov, Pamela Sargent, and Octavia E. Butler.
Author : Sheila Williams
Publisher :
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 34,7 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781892391476
Presents seventeen short stories originally published in the magazine "Asimov's science fiction" between 1977 and 2007.
Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 12,25 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Contains 55 essays on science fiction.
Author : Mary Chapman
Publisher : Evans Brothers
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 16,49 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Science fiction, English
ISBN : 0237536196
An enthralling collection of four intriguing science fiction stories. A strange creature kept in a science lab isn't quite what it seems in Gillian Philip's "The Changeling;" two space garbage men pick up a bit more than they bargained for in David Orme's "Space Junk;" a young girl has an unsettling encounter with identical strangers in Mary Chapman's "Strangers;" and a space war comes to an end, but at what cost in Alan Durant's "The Neronian Box."
Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 22,36 MB
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061802700
Gold is the final and crowning achievement of the fifty-year career of science fiction's transcendent genius, the world-famous author who defined the field of science fiction for its practitioners, its millions of readers, and the world at large. The first section contains stories that range from the humorous to the profound, at the heart of which is the title story, "Gold," a moving and revealing drama about a writer who gambles everything on a chance at immortality: a gamble Asimov himself made -- and won. The second section contains the grand master's ruminations on the SF genre itself. And the final section is comprised of Asimov's thoughts on the craft and writing of science fiction.
Author : Alec Nevala-Lee
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062571966
Hugo and Locus Award Finalist An Economist Best Book of the Year A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2018 “An amazing and engrossing history...Insightful, entertaining, and compulsively readable.” — George R. R. Martin Astounding is the landmark account of the extraordinary partnership between four controversial writers—John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and L. Ron Hubbard—who set off a revolution in science fiction and forever changed our world. This remarkable cultural narrative centers on the figure of John W. Campbell, Jr., whom Asimov called “the most powerful force in science fiction ever.” Campbell, who has never been the subject of a biography until now, was both a visionary author—he wrote the story that was later filmed as The Thing—and the editor of the groundbreaking magazine best known as Astounding Science Fiction, in which he discovered countless legendary writers and published classic works ranging from the I, Robot series to Dune. Over a period of more than thirty years, from the rise of the pulps to the debut of Star Trek, he dominated the genre, and his three closest collaborators reached unimaginable heights. Asimov became the most prolific author in American history; Heinlein emerged as the leading science fiction writer of his generation with the novels Starship Troopers and Stranger in a Strange Land; and Hubbard achieved lasting fame—and infamy—as the founder of the Church of Scientology. Drawing on unexplored archives, thousands of unpublished letters, and dozens of interviews, Alec Nevala-Lee offers a riveting portrait of this circle of authors, their work, and their tumultuous private lives. With unprecedented scope, drama, and detail, Astounding describes how fan culture was born in the depths of the Great Depression; follows these four friends and rivals through World War II and the dawn of the atomic era; and honors such exceptional women as Doña Campbell and Leslyn Heinlein, whose pivotal roles in the history of the genre have gone largely unacknowledged. For the first time, it reveals the startling extent of Campbell’s influence on the ideas that evolved into Scientology, which prompted Asimov to observe: “I knew Campbell and I knew Hubbard, and no movement can have two Messiahs.” It looks unsparingly at the tragic final act that estranged the others from Campbell, bringing the golden age of science fiction to a close, and it illuminates how their complicated legacy continues to shape the imaginations of millions and our vision of the future itself. "Enthralling…A clarion call to enlarge American literary history.” — Washington Post “Engrossing, well-researched… This sure-footed history addresses important issues, such as the lack of racial diversity and gender parity for much of the genre’s history.” — Wall Street Journal “A gift to science fiction fans everywhere.” — Sylvia Nasar, New York Times bestselling author of A Beautiful Mind
Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award: "Unqualified praise goes to this rarity: an extraordinary novel about ordinary people."-- Chicago Tribune
Author : James E. Gunn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 28,32 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Galaxy book.
Author : La Fayette Ron Hubbard
Publisher : Dissertations-G
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Fiction in English
ISBN : 9780824014162
Published for the first time in 1940 in "Astounding" magazine, "Final Blackout" "is set in a world ravaged by 30 years of war. . . [and] chronicles the rise, in England, of the charismatic leader, strategist and statesman known only as the Lieutenant" ("Publishers Weekly"). "Hubbard spins a masterful tale of suspense and nonstop action."--Harold Robbins