American Science Fiction: Five Classic Novels 1956-58 (Loa #228): Double Star / The Stars My Destination / A Case of Conscience / Who? / The Big Time

American Science Fiction: Five Classic Novels 1956-58 (Loa #228): Double Star / The Stars My Destination / A Case of Conscience / Who? / The Big Time - Hardcover

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American Science Fiction: Five Classic Novels 1956-58 (Loa #228): Double Star / The Stars My Destination / A Case of Conscience / Who? / The Big Time
  • American Science Fiction: Five Classic Novels 1956-58 (Loa #228): Double Star / The Stars My Destination / A Case of Conscience / Who? / The Big Time
American Science Fiction: Five Classic Novels 1956-58 (Loa #228): Double Star / The Stars My Destination / A Case of Conscience / Who? / The Big Time - Hardcover

American Science Fiction: Five Classic Novels 1956-58 (Loa #228): Double Star / The Stars My Destination / A Case of Conscience / Who? / The Big Time - Hardcover

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Book Overview

Following its acclaimed three-volume edition of the novels of science fiction master Philip K. Dick, The Library of America now presents a two-volume anthology of nine groundbreaking works from the golden age of the modern science fiction novel, works by turns satiric, adventurous, incisive, and hauntingly lyrical. Long unnoticed or dismissed by the literary establishment, these visionary "outsider" novels grappled in fresh ways with a world in rapid transformation and have gradually been recognized as American classics that opened new imaginative territory in American writing.

This second volume contains:

Robert Heinlein / Double Star

Alfred Bester / The Stars My Destination

James Blish / A Case of Conscience

Algis Budrys / Who?

Fritz Leiber / The Big Time

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
ISBN9781598531596
Author Various
PublisherLibrary of America
GenreLiterature
FormatHardcover
PublishedSeptember 2012
LanguageENG- English
Pages950
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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James Nagel, Edison Distonguished Professor of English at the University of Georgia, has edited several collections on the works of Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Crane, and Hamlin Garland, as well as the Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition of John Steinbeck's Pastures of Heaven.Tom Quirk is the Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the editor of the Penguin Classics editions of Mark Twain's Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches (1994) and Ambrose Bierce's Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories (2000) and co-editor of The Portable American Realism Reader (1997). His other books include Coming to Grips with Huckleberry Finn (1993), Mark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction (1997) and Nothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination (2001).

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