Author: Robert Silverberg
Publisher: Tor Books
Keywords: science, fiction, members, chosen, writers, america, time, greatest, hall, fame, volume, stories
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2003-02-22
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0765305364
ISBN-13: 9780765305367
The definitive collection of the best in science fiction stories between 1929 and 1964The book you now hold contains twenty-six of the greatest science fiction stories ever written. They represent the considered verdict of the Science Fiction Writers of America, those who have shaped the genre and who know, more intimately than anyone else, what the criteria for excellence in the field should be. The authors chosen for The Science Fiction of Hall Fame are the men and women who have shaped the body and heart of modern science fiction; their brilliantly imaginative creations continue to inspire
Authors:Frank McConnell, Gary Westfahl, Series Editors Donal
Publisher: McFarland
Keywords: science, fiction, critical, fantasy, imagination, explorations, storytelling, collected, essays, gnostic
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2009-01-29
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0786437227
ISBN-13: 9780786437221
A member of the Pulitzer Prize jury, the late Frank McConnell helped science fiction gain standing as serious literature. His 16 essays herein were first presented as papers at the prestigious Eaton Conferences. Initially believing that science fiction is primarily one of many forms of storytelling, McConnell gradually recognized science fiction as a modern expression of Gnosticism, rejecting bodily concerns for an emphasis on spirituality.
Author: Ben Bova
Publisher: Tor Books
Keywords: fiction, science, fame, hall, members, writers, chosen, america, greatest, volume, novellas, time
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2008-04-29
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0765305321
ISBN-13: 9780765305329
This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas between 1929 to 1964 and contains eleven great classics. There is no better anthology that captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field.Published in 1973 to honor stories that had come before the institution of the Nebula Awards, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame introduced tens of thousands of young readers to the wonders of science fiction and was a favorite of libraries across the country.This volume contains novellas by: Ray Bradbury, James Blish, Algis Budrys, Theodore Cogswell, E. M. Forster, Freder
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Publisher: Thomas Nelson Australia
Keywords: non, fiction, progress, meaning, race, technology, emerald, level, pushcart
Published: 2001-03-18
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 186961402X
ISBN-13: 9781869614027
Author: Damien Broderick
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: fiction, popular, science, postmodern, starlight, reading
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1994-12-21
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0415097894
ISBN-13: 9780415097895
Reading by Starlight explores the characteristics in the writing, marketing and reception of science fiction which distinguish it as a genre. Damier Broderick explores the postmodern self-referentiality of the sci-fi narrative, its intricate coded language and discursive `encyclopaedia’. He shows how, for perfect understanding, sci-fi readers must learn the codes of these imaginary worlds and vocabularies, all the time picking up references to texts by other writers. Reading by Starlight includes close readings of paradigmatic cyberpunk texts and writings by SF novelists and theorists in
Author: Clare West
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: fiction, georgian, press, english, non, modern, originals, classic
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2010-09-30
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 052114048X
ISBN-13: 9780521140485
Originals introduces intermediate-level students to a wide range of authors and encourages them to develop their English by reading for pleasure. The book contains extracts from classic and modern fiction and non-fiction, written in English by authors from many different countries. There are extracts from classic novels and short stories, spy and ghost stories, thrillers, war, fantasy novels, a biography and contemporary fiction. The texts has been carefully selected for the level so that intermediate students, and those preparing for the Cambridge Preliminary English Test (PET), will be a
