anthology: EXPLORATIONS OF THE MARVELLOUS

This is not just another promotional book by SF writers patting themselves - and each other - on the back. Consisting of eleven chapters - seven from writers inside the field and four from outside - it is a well informed, witty and sometimes sardonic account of where SF has been and where it is going, and the way it relates - and occasionally fails to relate - to the real world.

CONTENTS:

• Science Fiction and Mrs Brown (Ursula K. Le Guin) 
• Lateral Thinking and Science Fiction (Edward de Bono)
• Scientific Thought in Fiction and in Fact (John Taylor)
• Science Fiction and the Larger Lunacy (John Brunner)
• Worlds Besides Worlds (Harry Harrison)
• Science Fiction and Change (Alvin Toffler)
• Inner Time (Alan Garner)
• The Embarrassments of Science Fiction (Thomas M. Disch)
• Science Fiction: The Monsters and the Critics (Peter Nicholls)
• The Search for the Marvellous (Robert Sheckley)
• Man, Android and Machine (Philip K. Dick) 

EDITED BY: Peter Nicholls

COVER: paperback

PAGES: 224

LANGUAGE: english