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Blurb: “1976 Locus Award
1976 Science Fiction Research Association's Pilgrim Award
One of the best known writers in the field traces science fiction from Homer to Heinlein in 100,000 words and 700 pictures. A mental feast and a visual orgy for all science fiction fans.
"Comprehensive, neatly balanced and lavishly illustrated... SF fans may never have had so thorough a tribute to their genre." —Publishers Weekly
"An excellent, an intelligent, comprehensive, and above all objective history ... a minor miracle." — Science Fiction Review
"The hundreds of photos of science fiction writers and the equally large number of reproductions of covers from the pulp magazines make it a treasure." - Jackson Sun
A past president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, James Gunn teaches science fiction at the University of Kansas and is a prolific author of plays, screenplays, articles, verse and criticism, but primarily of science fiction. His novels include The Joy Makers, The Immor-tal, Breaking Point and The Listeners.
"Gunn gives the history of sf according to Verne, Wells and Campbell.
And he does so brilliantly, in a study that will long remain the voice for the so-called "hard concept of sf." — Extrapolation”