Bibliograph

American science fiction, four classic novels, 1960-1966, Gary K. Wolfe, editor

Type

Label

American science fiction, four classic novels, 1960-1966, Gary K. Wolfe, editor

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 705-718)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

American science fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1080587358

Responsibility statement

Gary K. Wolfe, editor

Series statement

Library of America, 321

Sub title

four classic novels, 1960-1966

Summary

"This volume, the first of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, opens with Poul Anderson's immensely popular The High Crusade, in which aliens planning to conquer Earth land in Lincolnshire during the Hundred Years' War. In Clifford Simak's Hugo Award-winning Way Station, Enoch Wallace is a spry 124-year-old Civil War veteran whose lifelong job monitoring the intergalactic pit stop inside his home is largely uneventful--until a CIA agent shows up and Cold War hostilities threaten the peaceful harmony of the Galactic confederation. Daniel Keyes's beloved Flowers for Algernon, winner of the Nebula Award and adapted as the Academy Award-winning movie Charly, is told through the journal entries of Charlie Gordon, a young man with severe learning disabilities who is the test subject for surgery to improve his intelligence. And in the postapocalyptic earthscape of Roger Zelazny's Hugo Award-winning . . . And Call Me Conrad (also published as This Immortal) Conrad Nomikos reluctantly accepts the responsibility of showing the planet to the governing extraterrestrials' representative and protecting him from rebellious remnants of the human race. Using early manuscripts and original setting copy, this Library of America volume restores the novel to a version that most closely approximates Zelazny's original text."--, Provided by publisher

Target audience

adult

Classification