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Author : Martin Greenberg
Publisher : M J F Books
ISBN 13 : 9781567311549
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Century of Science Fiction, 1950-1959 written by Martin Greenberg and published by M J F Books. This book was released on 1997-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312190330
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-05-15 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction's premier editor assembles the best stories of the year from veterans and newcomers alike, including Alan Brennert, Gwyneth Jones, James Patrick Kelly, Nancy Kress, Paul J. McAuley, Robert Silverberg, and many others.
Author : Gardner R. Dozois
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312209630
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction written by Gardner R. Dozois and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 21st edition of the award-winning annual compilation of the year's best science fiction stories.
Author : Gerry Canavan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316733017
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Science Fiction written by Gerry Canavan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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 : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312299972
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1957-08-13 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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 : Richard Hantula
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 9780836839524
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)
Download or read book Science Fiction: Vision of Tomorrow? written by Richard Hantula and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compares what writers over the centuries have written about an imaginary future with the reality revealed by time.
Author : MDP Publishing
Publisher : MDP Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1944409068
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book Galaxy Science Fiction October 1950 written by MDP Publishing and published by MDP Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing Galaxy Science Fiction's Original First Issue!This digitally reproduced full edition replica of Galaxy Science Fiction magazine's ground-breaking debut issue from October 1950 has been brought back to life for a new generation of fans to enjoy! Stories by Isaac Asimov, Fritz Leiber, Theodore Sturgeon and more! Explore the possibilities of life in the future from the perspective of the 1950's pre-spaceflight era. Several of the stories and commentaries in this 65+ year-old publication are stunningly accurate, while others are amusingly way off base . . .or are they??. All are well written and entertaining, with beautiful illustrations and advertisements in the classic 1950's comic book style. Along with commentary by editor H.L. Gold, each Galaxy issue also contains a book review column by anthologist Groff Conklin, and a Willy Ley science column. The stories in this magazine are written by some of science fiction's most beloved authors, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Robert Sheckley, Fritz Leiber, Frederik Pohl & C.M. Kornbluth, just to name a few. This October 1950 premier issue contains stories from Asimov, Leiber, and Sturgeon, among others. Established in 1950, Galaxy Science Fiction was a pioneer in Science Fiction magazine publishing. Original editor H. L. Gold was interested in sociology, psychology, and other "soft" sciences, and was also willing to publish humorous and satirical stories. Science Fiction historian David Kyle commented in his book A Pictorial History of Science Fiction, 1979, that "of all the editors in and out of the post-war scene, the most influential beyond any doubt was H. L. Gold". The editorship of Galaxy passed from H.L. Gold to Frederik Pohl and then to Ejler Jakobsson during the 1960s. Look for more editions of MDP'sGalaxy's Science Fiction series, coming soon to e-retailers worldwide.
Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : D A W Books, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780886774288
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
Download or read book Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories #21 (1959) written by Isaac Asimov and published by D A W Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 1990 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric S. Rabkin
Publisher : Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195032727
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)
Download or read book Science Fiction written by Eric S. Rabkin and published by Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1983-09-29 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a chronological survey of this genre from the beginnings of modern science and technology to the present.
Author : Roy DeCarava
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780999843819
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Sweet Flypaper of Life (softcover) written by Roy DeCarava and published by David Zwirner Books. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The people in these photographs had no walls up. They just accepted me and permitted me to take their photographs without any self-consciousness.” —Roy DeCarava. The Sweet Flypaper of Life is a “poem” about ordinary people, about teenagers around a jukebox, about children at an open fire hydrant, about riding the subway alone at night, about picket lines and artist work spaces. This renowned, life-affirming collaboration between artist Roy DeCarava and writer Langston Hughes honors in words and pictures what the authors saw, knew, and felt deeply about life in their city. Hughes’s heart-warming description of Harlem in the late 1940s and early 1950s is seen through the eyes of one grandmother, Sister Mary Bradley. As she guides the reader through the lives of those around her, we imagine the babies born, families in struggle, children yet flourishing. We experience the sights and sounds of Harlem as seen through her learned and worldly eyes, expressed here through Hughes’s poetic prose. As she states, “I done got my feet caught in the sweet flypaper of life and I’ll be dogged if I want to get loose.” DeCarava’s photographs lay open a world of sense and feeling that begins with his perception and vision. The ruminations go beyond the limit of simple observation and contend with deeper meanings to reveal these individuals as subjects worthy of art. While Hughes states “We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is,” the photographs bring us back to this lively dialogue and a complex reality, to a resolution that stands with the optimism of the photographic medium and the certainty of DeCarava’s artistic moment. In 1952 DeCarava became the first African American photographer to win a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. The one-year grant enabled DeCarava to focus full time on the photography he had been creating since the mid-1940s and to complete a project that would eventually result in The Sweet Flypaper of Life, a moving, photo-poetic work in the urban setting of Harlem. DeCarava compiled a set of images from which Hughes chose 141 and adeptly supplied a fictive narration, reflecting on life in that city-within-a-city. First published in 1955, the book, widely considered a classic of photographic visual literature, was reprinted by public demand several times. This fourth printing, the Heritage Edition, is the first authorized English-language edition since 1983 and includes an afterword by Sherry Turner DeCarava tracing the history and ongoing importance of this book.
