Science Fiction Reader's Guide Author:L. David Allen This book offers an explanation of science fiction, spanning such early masters as H. G. Wells and Jules Verne to the new wave of writers today such as Heinlein, Niven, and Asimov. It traces themes and changing trends as reflected in their works, discusses the every increasting popularity of science fiction and projects a future course of the ge... more »nre.
The Science Fiction Reader's Guide will lead the reader through an entertaining survey of the major works of the century as well as afford a deep insight into the reading, writing, and understanding this increasingly popular form of fiction.
Contents :
?Categories of Science Fiction
?Analyses of Representative Novels
?Introduction
?~20 000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne (1870)
?~The Time Machine, H. G. Wells (1895)
?~I, Robot, Isaac Asimov (1950)
?~The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov (1951,52,53)
?~The Demolished man, Alfred Bester (1952)
?~Childhood"s End, Arthur C. Clarke (1953)
?~Conjure Wife, Fritz Leiber (1953)
?~Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement (1954)
?~A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1960)
?~Dune, Frank Herbert (1965)
?~Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein (1961)
?~The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein (1966)
?~Rite of Passage, Alexei Panshin (1968)
?~The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin (1969)
?~Ringworld, Larry Niven (1970)
?Toward a Definition of Science Fiction
?A Way of Reading Science Fiction: Another Look at "Dune"
?Guidelines for Reading Science Fiction
?Verisimilitude in Science Fiction
?Awards for Science Fiction
?A Selected Bibliography of Science Fiction
?A Selected Bibliography of Works About Science Fiction
?Index
Orig published in 1973 as Science Fiction: An Introduction.« less