Publication: The Craft of Science Fiction: A Symposium on Writing Science Fiction and Science Fantasy

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Publication: The Craft of Science Fiction: A Symposium on Writing Science Fiction and Science FantasyPublication Record # 87298
Author: Reginald Bretnor
Date: 1976-08-00
ISBN: 0-06-010461-9 [978-0-06-010461-0]
Publisher: Harper & Row
Price:
$9.95^?$: US dollar
Pages: 321
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: NONFICTION
Cover: The Craft of Science Fiction: A Symposium on Writing Science Fiction and Science Fantasy by John Clarke
Webpages: archive.org
Notes: Stated first edition (full number line). Includes a complete index, beginning on page 313. Each essay is postfaced by a short uncredited article about the author. PV4 copy's dustwrapper price clipped (top right front flap) and has number 0876 printed bottom right.
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 1992001
- Reginald-3: 18606

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Nonfiction Title: The Craft of Science Fiction • (1976) • nonfiction by Reginald Bretnor

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

ix • Foreword (The Craft of Science Fiction) • essay by Reginald Bretnor
3 • SF: The Challenge to the Writer • essay by Reginald Bretnor
22 • Star-flights and Fantasies: Sagas Still to Come • essay by Poul Anderson
37 • Hard Sciences and Tough Technologies • essay by Hal Clement
54 • Rubber Sciences • essay by Norman Spinrad
73 • Extrapolations and Quantum Jumps • essay by Alan E. Nourse
89 • Future Writers in a Future World • essay by Theodore Sturgeon
104 • The Construction of Believable Societies • essay by Jerry Pournelle
121 • Men on Other Planets • essay by Frank Herbert
136 • Alien Minds and Nonhuman Intelligences • essay by Katherine MacLean
161 • Heroes, Heroines, Villains: The Characters in Science Fiction • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
178 • The Words in Science Fiction • essay by Larry Niven
195 • Short Stories and Novelettes • essay by Jack Williamson
216 • The Science Fiction Novel • essay by John Brunner
236 • With the Eyes of a Demon: Seeing the Fantastic as a Video Image • essay by Harlan Ellison
292 • The Science Fiction Professional • essay by Frederik Pohl

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