Voices For the Future: Essays on Major Science Fiction Writers, Volumes 1-3
Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1976-1984. Hardcover. Three volume set. Volume 1 is blue cloth and 283 pp. Volume 2 is tan cloth boards with black lettering; bw illustrated dj, mylar cover; 208 pp. Volume 3 is brown cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; bw illustrated dj, mylar cover; 220 pp. VG-/VG- (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Light shelfwear to boards and block. Pages are otherwise clean.). Item #185516
Contents: olume 1 -- The Years of Wonder / Jack Williamson -- Jack Williamson : the Comedy of Cosmic Evolution / Alfred D. Stewart -- Olaf Stapledon's Dispassionate Objectivity / Curtis C. Smith -- Clifford D. Simak : the Inhabited Universe / Thomas D. Clareson -- Asimov, Calvin, and Moses / Maxine Moore -- The Frontier Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein / David N. Samuelson -- The Sturgeon Connection / Beverly Friend -- Two Views : Ray Bradbury : Past, Present, and Future / Willis E. McNelly -- The Past, The Future, and Ray Bradbury / A. James Stupple -- Henry Kuttner, C.L. Moore, Lewis Padgett et al. / James Gunn -- The Cosmic Loneliness of Arthur C. Clarke / Thomas D. Clareson -- The Swiftian Satire of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. / Thomas L. Wymer -- Volume 2 -- The fictions of Robert Silverberg / Thomas D. Clareson -- Philip José Farmer : the trickster as artist / Thomas L. Wymer -- The lost canticles of Walter M. Miller, Jr. / David N. Samuelson -- What are we to make of J.G. Ballard's apocalypse / H. Bruce Franklin -- The development of John Brunner / Joe De Bolt -- Mack Reynolds : the future as socio-economic possibility / Patrick Warrick -- Discovering worlds : the fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin / Susan Wood -- Zelazny : unfinished business / Joe Sanders -- Volume 3 -- Variations and design : the fiction of Gene Wolfe / Thomas D. Clareson -- Uncertain futures : Damon Knight's science fiction / Douglas Robillard -- The majesty of kindness : the dialetic of Cordwainer Smith / Gary K. Wolfe and Carol T. Williams -- "The passions of clay" : Mervyn Peake's Titus stories / Joseph L. Sanders -- Critical mass : the science fiction of Frederik Pohl / David N. Samuelson -- C.S. Lewis : mythmaker / Horton Presley -- Art and the artist's role in Delany's works / Jane Weedman -- Naturalism, aestheticism and beyond : tradition and innovation in the work of Thomas M. Disch / Thomas L. Wymer.
OCLC: 5674048
Price: $50.00