The Road to Science Fiction: From Heinlein to Here

by Gunn, James

• ISBN13: 9780810842458
• ISBN10: 0810842459
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-11
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Summary

Now in paperback! Cloth edition previously published in 1979. Volume 3, From Heinlein to Here, covers the period from 1940 to 1975, beginning in the Golden Age of Science Fiction and ending at a time when SF book publication was just beginning to explode and SF films (2001: A Space Odyssey; Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Wars, E.T.) would soon dominate box offices.

Author Biography

James Gunn is professor emeritus of English at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. Among his best-known novels are The Joy Makers, The Immortals (which was adapted as a television movie and then a series, The Immortal), The Listeners, Kampus, and The Dreamers. His Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction won a Hugo Award for nonfiction. Gunn served as president of the Science Fiction Writers of America and of the Science Fiction Research Association and founded the Center for the Study of Science Fiction.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xiii
Beyond These Horizons	p. 1
"All You Zombies"	p. 4
The Clear, Cool Voice of Asimov	p. 15
Reason	p. 18
The Simak Reservation	p. 34
Desertion	p. 36
Mimsy Were the Kuttners	p. 47
Mimsy Were the Borogoves	p. 50
The Bradbury Chronicles	p. 79
The Million-Year Picnic	p. 82
More Than SF	p. 91
Thunder and Roses	p. 94
Ecce Femina	p. 114
That Only a Mother	p. 117
A Matter of Time	p. 126
Brooklyn Project	p. 129
The Social Side	p. 138
Coming Attraction	p. 141
The Expanding Universe	p. 153
The Sentinel	p. 156
Farmerworld	p. 164
Sail On! Sail On!	p. 167
The Science in Science Fiction	p. 176
Critical Factor	p. 179
Why Not Literature?	p. 192
Fondly Fahrenheit	p. 195
A Touch of Stone	p. 213
The Cold Equations	p. 216
The Ballads of Lost C. Smith	p. 238
The Game of Rat and Dragon	p. 240
Scalpel of Wit	p. 254
Pilgrimage to Earth	p. 257
The British Are Coming!	p. 267
Who Can Replace a Man?	p. 270
The Sirens of Mainstream	p. 279
Harrison Bergeron	p. 282
That Old-Time Religion	p. 288
The Streets of Ashkelon	p. 291
Terminal Fiction	p. 304
The Terminal Beach	p. 307
Again and Again	p. 326
Dolphin's Way	p. 329
The Future as Metaphor	p. 345
Slow Tuesday Night	p. 348
Through a Glass Darkly	p. 355
Day Million	p. 359
Will Reality Please Raise Its Hand?	p. 364
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale	p. 367
The New Thing	p. 386
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream	p. 389
Aye, and Delany	p. 403
Aye, and Gomorrah	p. 406
The New Scientific Revolution	p. 415
The Jigsaw Man	p. 418
Hard Science and Soft People	p. 428
Kyrie	p. 431
Out of the Knight	p. 441
Masks	p. 444
Surviving the Future	p. 453
From Stand on Zanzibar	p. 456
The Big Protest	p. 470
The Big Flash	p. 472
The Origin and Development of Science Fiction Writers	p. 491
Sundance	p. 494
Science Fiction as Simile	p. 507
From The Left Hand of Darkness	p. 510
Issues and Controversies	p. 523
When It Changed	p. 526
The Science Fiction Art Story	p. 534
The Engine at Heartspring's Center	p. 537
The Uncertain Future	p. 545
Tricentennial	p. 548
About the Author	p. 567
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