Science Fiction 101

Science Fiction 101

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Published: 01-10-2005

Pages: 544

Rating: 4.16

Language: en

eBook status: Skipped   AudioBook status: Skipped

Publisher: iBooks

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Description

If you write science fiction, you'll like Science Fiction 101's witty, thought-provoking essays, revealing the secrets, the craft and the art of science fiction. If you read science fiction, you'll enjoy the thirteen classic works of modern science fiction included in Science Fiction 101.

Includes:

Introduction by Greg Bear
Foreword by Robert Silverberg
Introduction: The making of a science-fiction writer by Robert Silverberg
Four in one by Damon Knight
Fondly Fahrenheit by Alfred Bester
No woman born by C.L. Moore
Home is the hunter by Henry Kuttner
The monsters by Robert Sheckley
Common time by James Blish
Scanners live in vain by Cordwainer Smith
Hothouse by Brian W. Aldiss
The new prime by Jack Vance
Colony by Philip K. Dick
The little black bag by C.M. Kornbluth
Light of other days by Bob Shaw
Day million by Frederik Pohl
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