Science Fiction in the Real World

by Norman Spinrad and Norman Spinrad B.S>

Book Overview

No ordinary critic, Norman Spinrad explicates, celebrates, and sometimes excoriates science fiction from the privileged perspective of an artist armed with intimate knowledge of the craft of fiction and even of the writers themselves.

In these 13 essays, Spinrad urges science fiction as a genre to reach its potential. He divides the essays--new works written specifically for this book combined with those that appeared in Isaac Asimov's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809316714
• ISBN13: 9780809316717
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"