The number of the beast | p. 14 |
L'Etat c'est moi | p. 18 |
I could have been a contender, part one | p. 23 |
Anonymity & empire | p. 26 |
I don't know how to put it love but I'll surely surely try | p. 31 |
Memoir from Grub Street | p. 37 |
The fifties | p. 40 |
The fifties : recapitulation and coda | p. 52 |
Ah tempora! ah portions! ah mores! ah outlines! | p. 56 |
Science fiction and the academy : some notes | p. 59 |
At the divining edge | p. 63 |
Some notes toward the true and the terrible | p. 67 |
Wrong rabbit | p. 71 |
John W. Campbell : June 8, 1910 to July 11, 1971 | p. 75 |
The science fiction of science fiction | p. 80 |
I don't want her you can have her | p. 87 |
Onward and upward with the arts, part II | p. 91 |
Tell me Doctor if you can that it's not all happening again | p. 94 |
The Richard Nixon John B. Mitchell Spiro Agnew Blues | p. 103 |
Cornell George Holey Woolrich : December 1903 to September 1968 | p. 106 |
A few hard truths for the troops | p. 111 |
Onward and upward with the arts, part III | p. 114 |
Science fiction as Picasso | p. 119 |
Mark Clifton : 1906-1963 | p. 121 |
September 1973 : what I did last summer | p. 126 |
The cutting edge | p. 130 |
Son of the true and terrible | p. 136 |
The all-time, prime-time, take-me-to-your-leader science fiction plot | p. 140 |
Grandson of the true and the terrible | p. 151 |
Give me that old-time religion | p. 154 |
SF forever | p. 156 |
What I won't do next summer, I guess | p. 158 |
Come fool, follify | p. 161 |
The engines of the night | p. 164 |
Con Sordino | p. 167 |
Corridors | p. 171 |
L'Envoi | p. 186 |
Son of L'envoi | p. 186 |
Grandson of l'envoi | p. 187 |
Footnotes | p. 188 |
Interregunum : preface to an essay | p. 193 |
Interregnum : rage, pain, alienation and other aspects of the writing of science fiction | p. 195 |
Afterword | p. 200 |
On engines again | p. 210 |
Atomic power | p. 216 |
Tripping with the alchemist | p. 219 |
Some reflections on Freud, fantasy & the Jewish condition | p. 244 |
I : not I | p. 251 |
On decadence | p. 255 |
Cliftonized | p. 261 |
Over the waves | p. 267 |
Thus our words unspoken | p. 274 |
A formal feeling comes | p. 281 |
Thinking about Compulsion | p. 288 |
The shores of suitability | p. 293 |
Some notes on the lone wolf | p. 296 |
Flowers for Daniel (Daniel Keyes) | p. 305 |
Falling from the air (Alice Sheldon) | p. 308 |
Dark of the knight (Damon Knight) | p. 313 |
On Fredric Brown | p. 318 |
The stochastic writer (Robert Silverberg) | p. 321 |
The dean of Gloucester, Virginia (William F. Jenkins) | p. 326 |
Inextricable disengagement (David Drake) | p. 329 |
On Isaac Asimov | p. 331 |
The bend at the end of the road (Gustav Hasford) | p. 337 |
The cloud sculptor of terminal X (J. G. Ballard) | p. 342 |
Presto : Con Malizia (Cornell Woolrich) | p. 351 |
Repentance, desire and Natalie Wood (Maurice Girodias) | p. 355 |
The man who lost the sea (John W. Campbell) | p. 363 |
Ruthven agonistes | p. 377 |
The passage of the light | p. 379 |
Afterword : the last millennium | p. 389 |
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