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1. Science Fiction: Today and Tomorrow.

Author

Bretnor, Reginald

Abstract

A critical symposium on science fiction, this book features essays (by Ben Bova, Frederik Pohl, George Zebrowski, Frank Herbert, Theodore Sturgeon, Alan E. Nourse, Thomas N. Scortia, Reginald Bretnor, James Gunn, Alexei and Cory Panshin, Poul Anderson, Hal Clement, Anne McCaffrey, Gordon R. Dickson, and Jack Williamson) dealing with such subjects as: the role of science fiction; the publishing of science fiction; science fiction and the visual media; science fiction and a world of crisis; science fiction, morals, and religion; science fiction and man's adaptation to change; science fiction as the imaginary experiment; science fiction in the age of space; science fiction, new trends and old; the creation of imaginary worlds; and creation of imaginary beings; romance and glamour in science fiction; plausibility in science fiction; and science fiction, teaching, and criticism. A bibliography of books discussing science fiction is included. (LL)

Published
1974

2. The Green and Burning Tree: On the Writing and Enjoyment of Children's Books.

Author

Cameron, Eleanor

Abstract

This collection of 12 critical essays--written for teachers, librarians, students, and parents--comments on the style, characterization, sense of wonder, and sense of reality in children's books. Specific subjects covered are (1) the fantasy worlds of Andersen, Beatrix Potter, Walter de la Mare, C. S. Lewis, Lewis Carroll, and J. R. R. Tolkien; (2) the craft of writing--sound in poetry, the sense of location and time in fiction, and the audience; (3) the heightening, through books, of the child's sense of the marvelous, and (4) the relationship of the author's life to his work, especially in the works of Wanda Gag and Eleanor Farjeon. (LH)

Published
1969

3. Wells and the Cosmic Despair.

Author

Costa, Richard Hauer

Subjects
SCIENCE fiction, LITERATURE, ADVENTURE stories, AUTHORS
Abstract

This article presents information on the literary contribution of science-fiction writer H.G. Wells. Wells died in his 80th year. To an older generation-of-science-fiction readers, the photographs of astronauts astride the universe in a kind of cosmic sleep-walk may seem, in some curious way, familiar, recalling imagery from "The First Men in the Moon," written by Wells in 1901. Travel into past and future time, secrets of invisibility and interplanetary warfare did not originate with Wells, but his name is attached, more than any other, to the mythical expression he gave to such subjects.

Published
1966

4. Unbelievable But True.

Author

Tunley, Roul

Subjects
*SCIENCE fiction, *AUTHORS, *SPACE sciences, *NUCLEAR science, *LITERATURE
Abstract

This article focuses on science fiction writer John Campbell. In the efforts to get a man into space, science-fiction fans feel they have overlooked the fact that a certain middle-aged New Jerseyan already has been there for years. Campbell has been blazing like an asteroid in the special wild blue yonder of space literature since before World War II. He has a powerful hold on these disciples because, first of all, Campbell pioneered modern science fiction and in the process largely killed off the hackneyed type of tales dealing with bug-eyed monsters. Like most nuclear physicists at the time, he was not absolutely certain that a chain reaction could be stopped.

Published
1960

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