For years, those bringing SF into the classroom have had to improvise their course materials from anthologies and collections not designed for classwork. Now, David G. Hartwell, award-winning anthologist, and Professor Milton T. Wolf, Vice President of the Science Fiction Research Association, present a carefully selected reading anthology reflecting the SF field in all its modern diversity. Here are Golden Age writers like John W. Campbell and Jack Williamson, and here also are towering latter-day titans like Gene Wolfe and Ursula K. Le Guin, along with today's popular writers such as Greg Bear, Robert Jordan, and Vernor Vinge.…mehr
For years, those bringing SF into the classroom have had to improvise their course materials from anthologies and collections not designed for classwork. Now, David G. Hartwell, award-winning anthologist, and Professor Milton T. Wolf, Vice President of the Science Fiction Research Association, present a carefully selected reading anthology reflecting the SF field in all its modern diversity. Here are Golden Age writers like John W. Campbell and Jack Williamson, and here also are towering latter-day titans like Gene Wolfe and Ursula K. Le Guin, along with today's popular writers such as Greg Bear, Robert Jordan, and Vernor Vinge.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
David G. Hartwell, called "an editor extraordinaire" by Publishers Weekly, is one of science fiction's most experienced and influential editors. As an editor with Berkley Books, Pocket Books, William Morrow, and Tor Books, he has worked with many of the field's best authors and edited many award-winning works. He is the author of Age of Wonders, a nonfiction study of the science fiction field. Among his many anthologies are the bestselling World Treasury of Science Fiction and the World Fantasy Award winner The Dark Descent. He is the holder of a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Columbia University, a winner of the Eaton Award, and has been nominated for the Hugo Award twenty-four times. Milton T. Wolf is a noted librarian, scholar, and vice president of the Science Fiction Research Association. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Introduction Critics (Chapter One of In Search of Wonder) / Damon Knight The Ship Who Sang / Anne McCaffrey Blood Music / Greg Bear Paperjack / Charles de Lint Forever Yours, Anna / Kate Wilhelm The Golden Age of Science Fiction Is Twelve / David G. Hartwell Mr. Boy / James Patrick Kelly Jamboree / Jack Williamson The Death of Doctor Island / Gene Wolfe Ender's Game / Orson Scott Card What Do You Mean . . . Human? / John W. Campbell, Jr. Bears Discover Fire / Terry Bisson One Down, One to Go / Philip Jose Farmer Sur / Ursula K. Le Guin Introduction to England Swings SF / Judith Merril Doing Lennon / Gregory Benford A Tupolev Too Far / Brian W. Aldiss Them Old Hyannis Blues / Judith Tarr Paradise Charted / Algis Budrys Masque of the Red Shift / Fred Saberhagen Redemption in the Quantum Realm / Frederik Pohl Devil You Don't Know / Dean Ing The Eye of the World (Excerpt) / Robert Jordan Split Light / Lisa Goldstein Science Fiction & The Adventures of the Spherical Cow / Kathryn Cramer The Sun Spider / Lucius Shepard Science Fiction and 'Literature' - or, the Conscience of the King / Samuel R. Delany Souls / Loanna Russ Overdrawn at the Memory Bank / John Varley The Girl Who Was Plugged In / James Tiptree Burning Chrome / William Gibson Towards an Aesthetic of Science Fiction / Joanna Russ Identifying the Object / Gwyneth Jones The Mountain to Mohammed / Nancy Kress Wall, Stone, Craft / Walter Jon Williams Boobs / Suzy McKee Charnas To Bring in Fine Things: The Significance of Science Fiction Plots / Brian Stableford Spider Silk / Andre Norton A Braver Thing / Charles Sheffield Getting Real / Susan Shwartz True Names / Vernor Vinge Science Fiction: A Selective Guide to Scholarship / Gary K. Wolfe
Introduction Critics (Chapter One of In Search of Wonder) / Damon Knight The Ship Who Sang / Anne McCaffrey Blood Music / Greg Bear Paperjack / Charles de Lint Forever Yours, Anna / Kate Wilhelm The Golden Age of Science Fiction Is Twelve / David G. Hartwell Mr. Boy / James Patrick Kelly Jamboree / Jack Williamson The Death of Doctor Island / Gene Wolfe Ender's Game / Orson Scott Card What Do You Mean . . . Human? / John W. Campbell, Jr. Bears Discover Fire / Terry Bisson One Down, One to Go / Philip Jose Farmer Sur / Ursula K. Le Guin Introduction to England Swings SF / Judith Merril Doing Lennon / Gregory Benford A Tupolev Too Far / Brian W. Aldiss Them Old Hyannis Blues / Judith Tarr Paradise Charted / Algis Budrys Masque of the Red Shift / Fred Saberhagen Redemption in the Quantum Realm / Frederik Pohl Devil You Don't Know / Dean Ing The Eye of the World (Excerpt) / Robert Jordan Split Light / Lisa Goldstein Science Fiction & The Adventures of the Spherical Cow / Kathryn Cramer The Sun Spider / Lucius Shepard Science Fiction and 'Literature' - or, the Conscience of the King / Samuel R. Delany Souls / Loanna Russ Overdrawn at the Memory Bank / John Varley The Girl Who Was Plugged In / James Tiptree Burning Chrome / William Gibson Towards an Aesthetic of Science Fiction / Joanna Russ Identifying the Object / Gwyneth Jones The Mountain to Mohammed / Nancy Kress Wall, Stone, Craft / Walter Jon Williams Boobs / Suzy McKee Charnas To Bring in Fine Things: The Significance of Science Fiction Plots / Brian Stableford Spider Silk / Andre Norton A Braver Thing / Charles Sheffield Getting Real / Susan Shwartz True Names / Vernor Vinge Science Fiction: A Selective Guide to Scholarship / Gary K. Wolfe
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