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Publication: Science Fiction: A Collection of Critical EssaysPublication Record # 651248
Author: Mark Rose
Date: date unknown
ISBN: 0-13-794958-8 [978-0-13-794958-8]
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Pub. Series: Spectrum - Twentieth-Century Views
Pub. Series #: 130
Price:
$2.95^?$: US dollar
Pages: x+174
Format:
tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
Type: NONFICTION
Cover: Science Fiction: A Collection of Critical Essays (1976) • by Stanley Wyatt
Notes: • © 1976, second printing by number line 10—2 • "Cover design: Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles, by Stanley Wyatt" on back cover, a single initial W is on the artwork • $3.50 in Canada

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Nonfiction Title: Science Fiction: A Collection of Critical Essays • (1976) • nonfiction by Mark Rose

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

1 • Introduction (Science Fiction: A Collection of Critical Essays) • (1976) • essay by Mark Rose
9 • Starting Points • (1960) • essay by Kingsley Amis
30 • Science Fiction and Literature • (1963) • essay by Robert Conquest
46 • The Roots of Science Fiction • (1975) • essay by Robert Scholes
57 • On the Poetics of the Science Fiction Genre • (1972) • essay by Darko Suvin
72 • The Time-Travel Story and Related Matters of SF Structuring • (1976) • essay by
Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem
(variant of The Time Travel Story and Related Matters of SF Structuring 1974) [as by Stanislaw Lem]
89 • Genre Criticism: Science Fiction and the Fantastic • (1976) • essay by Eric S. Rabkin
103 • On Science Fiction • (1955) • essay by C. S. Lewis
116 • The Imagination of Disaster • (1965) • essay by Susan Sontag
132 • How to Play Utopia: Some Brief Notes on the Distinctiveness of Utopian Fiction • (1968) • essay by Michael Holquist
147 • The Apocalyptic Imagination, Science Fiction, and American Literature • (1974) • essay by David Ketterer
156 • Science Fiction and the Future • (1975) • essay by John Huntington
167 • Chronology of Important Dates (Science Fiction: A Collection of Critical Essays) • (1976) • essay by Mark Rose
171 • Notes on the Editor and Contributors (Science Fiction: A Collection of Critical Essays) • (1976) • essay by Mark Rose
173 • Selected Bibliography (Science Fiction: A Collection of Critical Essays) • (1976) • essay by Mark Rose

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