(xiv) 352 pp. Quarter-bound in Navy blue cloth on blue boards; blue endpapers; lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners on the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Dj by Stanislaw Fernandes. This anthology contains: Colony - a novelette by Philip K. Dick; The New Prime - a novelette by Jack Vance; Home Is the Hunter by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore; No Woman Born - a novella by C. L. Moore; Four in One - a novelette by Damon Knight; Fondly Fahrenheit - a novelette by Alfred Bester; The Monsters by Robert Sheckley; Common Time by James Blish; Scanners Live in Vain - a novelette by Cordwainer Smith; Hothouse - a novelette by Brian W. Aldiss; The Little Black Bag - a novelette by C. M. Kornbluth; Light of Other Days by Bob Shaw; and Day Million by Frederik Pohl. Size: 8vo.

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Title

ROBERT SILVERBERG'S WORLDS OF WONDER - Exploring the Craft of Science Fiction

Publisher

Warner Books, New York

Publication Date

1987

Language

English

ISBN 10

0446513695

ISBN 13

9780446513692

Binding

Hardcover

Illustrator

Stanislaw Fernandes;

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Very Good+

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good+

Book Type

Book

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Thirteen of the greatest science fiction stories--including "Four one," "The Monsters," "Colony," and "Day million"--are accompanied by in-depth critical analyses and by an autobiographical essay entitled "The Making of a Science Fiction Writer"

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In this unusual and valuable book, Silverberg has collected 13 stories that affected him, and from which he learned, and has annotated each with a discussion analyzing its virtues and faults; these discussions form a virtual primer on the writing of science fiction. Silverberg's critiques, and especially his long introductory memoir, are rendered in an intimate first-person mode and give us a fascinating portrait of a young man becoming a writer in the exciting climate that was SF publishing in the early '50s. Finally, we have the 13 stories, almost all of which are classics of the field, wonderful to reread and in some cases to encounter for the first time. They include Alfred Bester's tale of contagious madness, "Fondly Fahrenheit"; Robert Sheckley's perfectly executed satire "The Monsters"; Philip K. Dick's SF horror story "Colony"; and Brian Aldiss's inventive, surreal "Hothouse."
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