On SF

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University of Michigan Press, 2005 - Počet stran: 271
Praise for Thomas Disch:

"One of the most remarkably talented writers around."
---Washington Post Book World

"[Disch] is without doubt one of the really bright lights on the American SF scene."
---Fantasy and Science Fiction

This collection by the much-loved and lauded science-fiction writer Thomas Disch spans twenty-five years of his career, during which he has supplemented his creative output with reviews and critical essays in publications as diverse as the Nation, the New York Times Book Review, the Atlantic Monthly, and Twilight Zone.

Disch's perspectives on his genre are skeptical, novel, and often incendiary. The volume's opening essay, for example, characterizes writers of science fiction as "the provincials of literature." Other essays explore science fiction's roots-Poe, Bradbury, Clarke, Asimov, Vonnegut-as well as modern practitioners such as Stephen King, Philip Dick, Robert Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and William Gibson.

Disch entertains and provokes with essays on UFOs, Science Fiction as a Church, and Newt Gingrich's Futurist Brain Trust. Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Madame Blavatsky also get the Disch treatment. Throughout, the writing is lively, agile, and irreverent, exhibiting an incisive honesty that is undiluted by Disch's own attachments as a sci-fi practitioner. On SF will appeal equally to lovers of science fiction and connoisseurs of the finest critical prose.
 

Obsah

The Embarrassments of Science Fiction
3
A Popular Misconception
16
The Further Embarrassments
25
Poes Appalling Life
39
Brave New World Revisited Once Again
49
Sic Sic Sic
56
Isaac Asimov 19201992
65
Time Space the Limitlessness of the Imaginationand
72
Queen Victorias Computers
147
An Afterword
160
The Village Alien
171
UFOs and the Origins of Christianity
184
Science Fiction as a Church
190
The Evidence of Things Not Seen
198
Science Fiction and
205
Newts Futurist Brain Trust
213

Thoughts of a Twilight Zone Reviewer
79
Talking with Jesus
89
The Labor Day Group
97
Fluff and Fizzles
105
The Feast of St Bradbury
114
A Different Different World
133
Wolfes New Sun
141
A Closer Look at Close Encounters
220
The Day of the Living Dead
235
Guides to the Ghetto
242
Measures of Hanging
248
Acknowledgments
261
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Thomas M. Disch is master of many literary genres, including science fiction, poetry, drama, and children's literature. He is the author of numerous books, including The Genocides and Camp Concentration. Other books from the University of Michigan Press include The Castle of Perseverance and A Child's Garden of Grammar.

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