The Road to Science Fiction: From Heinlein to Here
by Gunn, JamesEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-03-11
Publisher(s): Scarecrow Press
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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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