Publication: Modern Science Fiction: Its Meaning and Its Future

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Publication: Modern Science Fiction: Its Meaning and Its FuturePublication Record # 87303
Author: Reginald Bretnor
Date: 1979-06-00
ISBN: 0-911682-23-6 [978-0-911682-23-6]
Publisher: Advent: Publishers
Price:
$10.00^?$: US dollar
Pages: xvi+327
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: NONFICTION
Cover: Modern Science Fiction: Its Meaning and Its Future (1979) • by Mike Hinge
Notes: Price $10.00 when first published(from publishers web page) Month of publication from Locus #223 (Jul/Aug 1979). Cover states "Expanded Second Edition", but both the Advent archive and Chalker and Owings state that it is a photo reprint of the 1953 edition adding only a new preface, "Retrospect and Prospect", "Notes and Corrections" and a new index.
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 5451524
- Reginald-3: 18608

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Nonfiction Title: Modern Science Fiction: Its Meaning and Its Future • (1953) • nonfiction by Reginald Bretnor

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

Science Fiction, Morals, and Religion • (1953) • essay by Gerald Heard
Social Science Fiction • (1953) • essay by Isaac Asimov
The Place of Science Fiction • (1953) • essay by John W. Campbell, Jr.
The Publishing of Science Fiction • (1953) • essay by Anthony Boucher
Science Fiction in Motion Pictures, Radio and Television • (1953) • essay by Don Fabun
A Critique of Science Fiction • (1953) • essay by Fletcher Pratt
Science Fiction and the Main Stream • (1953) • essay by Rosalie Moore
Imaginative Fiction and Creative Imagination • (1953) • essay by L. Sprague de Camp
Science Fiction: Preparation for the Age of Science • (1953) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
Science Fiction and Sanity in an Age of Crisis • (1953) • essay by Philip Wylie
The Future of Science Fiction • (1953) • essay by Reginald Bretnor
ix • Retrospect and Prospect • essay by Reginald Bretnor
xiii • Preface to First Edition (Modern Science Fiction: Its Meaning and Its Future) • essay by Reginald Bretnor (variant of Preface (Modern Science Fiction: Its Meaning and Its Future) 1953)
296 • Notes and Corrections (Modern Science Fiction: Its Meaning and Its Future) • essay by Edward Wood [as by uncredited]

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