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9780312868789

The SFWA Grand Masters: Volume 2 Andre Norton, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester, and Ray Bradbury

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    9780312868789

  • ISBN10:

    0312868782

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-04-07
  • Publisher: Tor Books

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Summary

The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (or SWFA)and the Grand Master Award is given by the SWFA to a living author for a lifetime's achievement in science fiction and/or fantasy. Frederik Pohl, one of the world's finest SF authors and editors, has been authorized to edit an anthology in three large-format volumes featuring substantial selections of the work of all the first fifteen Grand Masters. These are the seminal writers within the modern SF field, those whose works are of dominant importance and lasting influence. Volume Two, presenting the second five writers to receive the award, offers fiction by Andre Norton, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester, and Ray Bradbury.

Author Biography

Frederik Pohl has won all the major awards in the field of science fiction, including three Hugo Awards, two Nebula Awards, both for Best Novel; the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, also for Best Novel; he was accorded the accolade of Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. He's also won three Hugo awards as editor of the best magazine. He edited the groundbreaking Star Science Fiction series of original-story anthologies. He and his wife, educator and political activist Elizabeth Anne Hull, live in Palatine, Illinois.

Table of Contents

Introduction 11(15)
Andre Norton
15(94)
Mousetrap
18(7)
Were-Wrath
25(33)
All Cats Are Gray
58(7)
Serpent's Tooth
65(44)
Arthur C. Clarke
109(94)
Rescue Party
115(28)
The Secret
143(6)
Reunion
149(2)
The Star
151(7)
A Meeting with Medusa
158(45)
Isaac Asimov
203(108)
The Last Question
210(14)
It's Such a Beautiful Day
224(24)
Strikebreaker
248(15)
The Martian Way
263(48)
Alfred Bester
311(84)
Disappearing Act
315(19)
Fondly Fahrenheit
334(22)
Comment on ``Fondly Fahrenheit''
356(3)
The Four-Hour Fugue
359(19)
Hobson's Choice
378(17)
Ray Bradbury
395(4)
The City
399(8)
The Million-Year Picnic
407(10)
All Summer in a Day
417(6)
There Will Come Soft Rains
423(7)
The Affluence of Despair
430

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