anthology: THE ROAD TO SCIENCE FICTION 2: FROM WELLS TO HEINLEIN

There are just some of the top writers from the Golden Age of Science Fiction. From H.G.Wells´s story of a scientist who can increase man´s speed a thousandfold, to Edgar Rice Burroughs´s tale of Mars feeming with alien cultures; from the chilling horror of A.Merritt´s The People of the Pit, to Murray Leinster´s encounter with sentient and potentially deadly plant beings; from L.Sprague de Cam´s humorous account of how the human race turned into the ultimate shaggy-dog story, to Robert Heinlein´s portrait of a man who wanted to reach the stars so badle that he would sacrifice anything to get there... From Argosy to Astounding, from incredible inventions to alien encounters, here is a delightful and fascinationg sampling of some of science fition´s fines moments, a capsule history of the birth and evolution of a modern galaxy-spanning literature.

EDITEDY BY: James Gunn

COVER: paperback

PAGES: 535

LANGUAGE: english