science fiction, american

A critical introduction to the life and work of the science fiction novelist Ursula K. Le Guin.

Examines Harrison's contributions to the science fiction genre during his forty-year career.

Bibliography: p. 132-134. A critical study of the American author's work focusing primarily on the Dune series.

Provides a thematic assessment of more than thirty novels and numerous short stories by American science fiction writer Roger Zelazny.

A century after human civilization is accidentally destroyed by the Gruumsbaggians, a four-armed extraterrestrial will arrive with misguided intentions to restore life on Earth to the way it was.

American space scientists, science fiction writers, and visionary artists describe the solar system as it may be after it is explored.

Presents twenty short stories representing the best in science fiction of 1998, with introductory biographical sketches on each author.