American science fiction

Author(s)

• Wolfe, Gary K.
• Pohl, Frederik
• Kornbluth, C. M. (Cyril M.)
• Sturgeon, Theodore
• Brackett, Leigh
• Matheson, Richard
• Heinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson)
• Bester, Alfred
• Blish, James
• Budrys, Algis
• Leiber, Fritz
• Anderson, Poul
• Simak, Clifford D.
• Keyes, Daniel
• Zelazny, Roger
• Lafferty, R. A.
• Russ, Joanna
• Delany, Samuel R.
• Vance, Jack

Bibliographic Information

American science fiction

Gary K. Wolfe, editor

（The library of America, 227-228, 321-322）

Library of America, c2012-

• 1953-1956
• 1956-1958
• 1960-1966
• 1968-1969

Other Title

American science fiction : four classic novels 1953-1956

American science fiction : five classic novels 1956-1958

American science fiction : four classic novels 1960-1966

American science fiction : four classic novels 1968-1969

Note

"Four classic novels 1953-1956"--T.p. of 1953-1956;"Five classic novels 1956-1958"--T.p. of 1956-1958;"Four classic novels 1960-1966"--T.p. of 1960-1966;"Four classic novels 1968-1969"--T.p. of 1968-1969

Contents of Works

• 1953-1956. The space merchants / Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth
• More than human / Theodore Sturgeon
• The long tomorrow / Leigh Brackett
• The shrinking man / Richard Matheson
• 1956-1958. Double star / Robert Heinlein
• The stars my destination / Alfred Bester
• A case of conscience / James Blish
• Who? / Algis Budrys
• The big time / Fritz Leiber
• 1960-1966. The high crusade / Poul Anderson
• Way station / Clifford D. Simak
• Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes
• --And call me Conrad (This immortal) / Roger Zelazny
• 1968-1969. Past master / R.A. Lafferty
• Picnic on paradise / Joanna Russ
• Nova / Samuel R. Delany
• Emphyrio / Jack Vance

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

1953-1956 ISBN 9781598531589

Description

Following its acclaimed three-volume edition of the novels of science fiction master Philip K. Dick, The Library of America now presents a two-volume anthology of nine groundbreaking works from the golden age of the modern science fiction novel, works by turns satiric, adventurous, incisive, and hauntingly lyrical. Long unnoticed or dismissed by the literary establishment, these visionary "outsider" novels grappled in fresh ways with a world in rapid transformation and have gradually been recognized as American classics that opened new imaginative territory in American writing.This first volume contains- Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth / The Space Merchants Theodore Sturgeon / More Than Human Leigh Brackett / The Long Tomorrow Richard Matheson / The Shrinking Man LIBRARY OF AMERICAis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Volume

1960-1966 ISBN 9781598535013

Description

In a deluxe collector's edition hardcover, four classic novels from science fiction's most transformative decade, including the landmark Flowers for Algernon This volume, the first of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, opens with Poul Anderson's immensely popular The High Crusade, in which aliens planning to conquer Earth land in Lincolnshire during the Hundred Years' War. In Clifford Simak's Hugo Award-winning Way Station, Enoch Wallace is a spry 124-year-old Civil War veteran whose lifelong job monitoring the intergalactic pit stop inside his home is largely uneventful--until a CIA agent shows up and Cold War hostilities threaten the peaceful harmony of the Galactic confederation. Daniel Keyes's beloved Flowers for Algernon, winner of the Nebula Award and adapted as the Academy Award-winning movie Charly, is told through the journal entries of Charlie Gordon, a young man with severe learning disabilities who is the test subject for surgery to improve his intelligence. And in the postapocalyptic earthscape of Roger Zelazny's Hugo Award-winning . . . And Call Me Conrad (also published as This Immortal) Conrad Nomikos reluctantly accepts the responsibility of showing the planet to the governing extraterrestrials' representative and protecting him from rebellious remnants of the human race. Using early manuscripts and original setting copy, this Library of America volume restores the novel to a version that most closely approximates Zelazny's original text.

Volume

1968-1969 ISBN 9781598535020

Description

In this second volume of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, R. A. Lafferty's quirky and utterly original Past Master, an unjustly neglected classic, imagines Sir Thomas More transported to the colony Astrobe in the year 2535, where he is made president of a future Utopia. In Picnic on Paradise, Joanna Russ presents her indelible heroine, Alyx, who is hired to protect a group of tourists in a hostile alien world. Samuel R. Delany's proto-cyberpunk space opera Nova, reprinted here for the first time in a text corrected by the author, combines the pacing of a revenge story with the arc of a grail-quest legend. Jack Vance's dystopian thriller Emphyrio is the coming-of-age story of Ghyl, who has been raised in a world barring the use of automation but has a strong sense of subversive individualism. The novel has been restored to the author's original text, without later editorial interventions.

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Details

• NCID: BB10053332
• ISBN:
  • 9781598531589
  • 9781598531596
  • 9781598535013
  • 9781598535020
• LCCN: 2011937585
• LCCN: 2011937569
• LCCN: 2019939871
• LCCN: 2019939873
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: v.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 813/.0876208
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Science fiction, American
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00080739