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xiv, 345 pages ; 22 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-345). |
| Contents |
Advice to a prophet / Richard Wilbur -- No way out, no way back / Time magazine -- The human race has, maybe, thirty-five years left / David Lyle -- Crab-apple crisis / George MacBeth -- Earth's holocaust / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Poem rocket / Allen Ginsberg -- The country of the blind ; [Selection from] The time machine / H.G. Wells -- Jachid and Jachidah / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- They ; The green hills of Earth / Robert A. Heinlein -- The artist / Kenneth Koch -- The balloon / Donald Barthelme -- To the Chicago abyss / Ray Bradbury -- Light of other days / Bob Shaw -- Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- Tithonus / D.M. Thomas -- The machine stops / E.M. Forster -- A rose for Ecclesiastes / Roger Zelzany -- "Repent, Harlequin!" said the Ticktockman / Harlan Ellison -- Day million / Frederik Pohl -- History lesson / Arthur C. Clarke -- Starting points / Kingsley Amis -- Social science fiction / Isaac Asimov -- Science fiction, morals, and religion / Gerald Heard -- The boredom of fantasy / Arthur Koestler -- The imagination of disaster / Susan Sontag -- The future of prediction / John P. Sisk. |
| Summary |
An anthology of science fiction stories and poems, along with critical works, most followed by study questions. Suggests topics for writing and research and for further reading. |
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Science fiction, American.
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Science fiction, English.
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Science fiction -- History and criticism.
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Literature and science -- English-speaking countries.
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Literature and science. (OCoLC)fst01000093
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Science fiction. (OCoLC)fst01108566
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Science fiction, American. (OCoLC)fst01108635
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Science fiction, English. (OCoLC)fst01108670
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English-speaking countries. (OCoLC)fst01261775
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Science fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726489
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Science fiction.
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Science fiction.
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| Added Author |
Allen, Dick, 1939-2017 compiler.
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| ISBN |
0155786504 |
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9780155786509 |
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