A Century of Science Fiction, 1950-1959
Author: Martin Greenberg
Publisher: M J F Books
Published: 1997-02
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781567311549
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Author: Martin Greenberg
Publisher: M J F Books
Published: 1997-02
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781567311549
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gardner Dozois
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 1998-05-15
Total Pages: 690
ISBN-13: 0312207530
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGardner Dozois, science fiction's foremost editor, consistently selects the field's best work each year with this showcase anthology. This year's collection presents sterling short stories from veterans and newcomers alike, including Stephen Baxter, Alan Brennert, Carolyn Ives Gilman, James Patrick Kelly, Geoffrey A. Landis, Paul J. McAuley, Robert Reed, William Sanders, Howard Waldrop, and many others. Rounded out with Dozois's insightful Summation of the Year in SF and a long list of Honorable Mentions, this anthology is the book for every science fiction fan.
Author: Richard Hantula
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Published: 2004-12-15
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780836839524
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCompares what writers over the centuries have written about an imaginary future with the reality revealed by time.
Author: Gardner R. Dozois
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 678
ISBN-13: 0312209630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 21st edition of the award-winning annual compilation of the year's best science fiction stories.
Author: Gardner Dozois
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 1999-07-30
Total Pages: 676
ISBN-13: 0312264747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe past through tomorrow are boldly imagined and reinvented in the twenty-five stories collected in this showcase anthology. Many of the field's finest practitioners are represented here, along with stories from promising newcomers, including: William Barton * Rob Chilson * Tony Daniel * Cory Doctorow * Jim Grimsley * Gwyneth Jones * Chris Lawson * Ian McDonald * Robert Reed * William Browning Spencer * Allen Steele * Michael Swanwick * Howard Waldrop * Cherry Wilder * Liz Williams A useful list of honorable mentions and Dozois's insightful summation of the year in sf round out this anthology, making it indispensable for anyone interested in SF today.
Author: Gerry Canavan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-12-31
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1316733017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first science fiction course in the American academy was held in the early 1950s. In the sixty years since, science fiction has become a recognized and established literary genre with a significant and growing body of scholarship. The Cambridge History of Science Fiction is a landmark volume as the first authoritative history of the genre. Over forty contributors with diverse and complementary specialties present a history of science fiction across national and genre boundaries, and trace its intellectual and creative roots in the philosophical and fantastic narratives of the ancient past. Science fiction as a literary genre is the central focus of the volume, but fundamental to its story is its non-literary cultural manifestations and influence. Coverage thus includes transmedia manifestations as an integral part of the genre's history, including not only short stories and novels, but also film, art, architecture, music, comics, and interactive media.
Author: Peter Lev
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780520249660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering a tumultuous period of the 1950s, this work explores the divorce of movie studios from their theater chains, the panic of the blacklist era, the explosive emergence of science fiction as the dominant genre, and the rise of television and Hollywood's response with widescreen spectacles.
Author: John Wade
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2019-01-30
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1526729261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed look at the British world of science fiction in the 1950s. John Wade grew up in the 1950s, a decade that has since been dubbed the “golden age of science fiction.” It was a wonderful decade for the genre, but not so great for young fans. With early television broadcasts being advertised for the first time as “unsuitable for children” and the inescapable barrier of the “X” certificate in the cinema barring anyone under the age of sixteen, the author had only the radio to fall back on—and that turned out to be more fertile for the budding SF fan than might otherwise have been thought. Which is probably why, as he grew older, rediscovering those old TV broadcasts and films that had been out of bounds when he was a kid took on a lure that soon became an obsession. For him, the super-accuracy and amazing technical quality of today’s science fiction films pale into insignificance beside the radio, early TV and B-picture films about people who built rockets in their back gardens and flew them to lost planets, or tales of aliens who wanted to take over, if not our entire world, then at least our bodies. This book is a personal account of John Wade’s fascination with the genre across all the entertainment media in which it appeared—the sort of stuff he reveled in as a young boy—and still enjoys today. “Not only a well–researched book grounded in hundreds of sources, but also an unmistakable labor of love.” —New York Journal of Books
Author: Tom Godwin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Published: 2014-03-08
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781496184153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThree great SF stories from the golden age of fantastic tales!:The space ships were miracles of power and precision; the men who manned them, rich in endurance and courage. Every detail had been checked and double checked; every detail except—THE NOTHING EQUATIONBy TOM GODWIN There are times when a broken tool is better than a sound one, or a twisted personality more useful than a whole one. For instance, a whole beer bottle isn't half the weapon that half a beer bottle is …IN CASE OF FIREBy RANDALL GARRETTRed and Slim found the two strange little animals the morning after they heard the thunder sounds. They knew that they could never show their new pets to their parents.YOUTHby ISAAC ASIMOV
Author: Walter M. Miller
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 0
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