American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1968-1969 (LOA #322): Past Master / Picnic on Paradise / Nova / Emphyrio
ISBN-13:
9781598535020
ISBN-10:
1598535021
Author:
Jack Vance, Gary K. Wolfe, Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delany, R.A. Lafferty
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
Library of America
Format:
Hardcover
762 pages
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ISBN-13:
9781598535020
ISBN-10:
1598535021
Author:
Jack Vance, Gary K. Wolfe, Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delany, R.A. Lafferty
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
Library of America
Format:
Hardcover
762 pages
Summary
American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1968-1969 (LOA #322): Past Master / Picnic on Paradise / Nova / Emphyrio (ISBN-13: 9781598535020 and ISBN-10: 1598535021), written by authors
Jack Vance, Gary K. Wolfe, Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delany, R.A. Lafferty, was published by Library of America in 2019.
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Four mind-bending novels from science fiction's most transformative decade in a deluxe collector's edition hardcover, including two long out-of-print classics
In this second volume of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, R. A. Lafferty's quirky and utterly original Past Master, an unjustly neglected classic, imagines Sir Thomas More transported to the colony Astrobe in the year 2535, where he is made president of a future Utopia. In Picnic on Paradise, Joanna Russ presents her indelible heroine, Alyx, who is hired to protect a group of tourists in a hostile alien world. Samuel R. Delany's proto-cyberpunk space opera Nova, reprinted here for the first time in a text corrected by the author, combines the pacing of a revenge story with the arc of a grail-quest legend. Jack Vance's dystopian thriller Emphyrio is the coming-of-age story of Ghyl, who has been raised in a world barring the use of automation but has a strong sense of subversive individualism. The novel has been restored to the author's original text, without later editorial interventions.
In this second volume of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, R. A. Lafferty's quirky and utterly original Past Master, an unjustly neglected classic, imagines Sir Thomas More transported to the colony Astrobe in the year 2535, where he is made president of a future Utopia. In Picnic on Paradise, Joanna Russ presents her indelible heroine, Alyx, who is hired to protect a group of tourists in a hostile alien world. Samuel R. Delany's proto-cyberpunk space opera Nova, reprinted here for the first time in a text corrected by the author, combines the pacing of a revenge story with the arc of a grail-quest legend. Jack Vance's dystopian thriller Emphyrio is the coming-of-age story of Ghyl, who has been raised in a world barring the use of automation but has a strong sense of subversive individualism. The novel has been restored to the author's original text, without later editorial interventions.
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