Non-Fiction by Sci-Fi Authors

Explore captivating non-fiction works by renowned sci-fi authors. Discover insightful books beyond their fiction, blending imagination with real-world expertise.

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A User's Guide to the Millennium

by J. G. Ballard

A collection of novelist's non-fiction writings spanning more than thirty years addresses topics including the arts, science, literature, popular culture, and his own life.
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Shaping things

 

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Tomorrow Now

by Bruce Sterling

Predicting that the next generation will be living in a substantially different world, a forecast for the next fifty years discusses such topics as technology, …
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Trillion Year Spree

by Brian Wilson Aldiss

Crammed with fascinating insights, this book takes us through decades of treats for the imagination. Amusing and authoritative, it examines the great writers SF has …
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Bradbury Speaks

 

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The roving mind

 

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Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!

 

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Microworlds

 

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About Writing

by Samuel R. Delany

Essential reading for the creative writer.
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Wizardry and Wild Romance

 

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Wonder's child

 

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On SF

by Thomas M. Disch

A last judgment on the genre from science fiction's foremost critic
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The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of

by Thomas M. Disch

A popular insider offers a fascinating history of science fiction filled with provocative critiques, tidbits, and insights that reveal much about our cultural and literary …
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Edgeworks

by Harlan Ellison

"A major collection of his incomparable, troublemaking, uncompromising, confrontational essays."--V. 3, cover.
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Chasing Science

by Frederik Pohl

Join science fiction master Frederik Pohl as he takes readers on a wonder-filled non-fictional journey from the ends of the earth to the edges of …
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Immortality:

 

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Faint Echoes, Distant Stars

by Ben Bova

Our neighboring planets may have the answer to this question. Scientists have already identified ice caps on Mars and what appear to be enormous oceans …
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Speculations on Speculation

by James E. Gunn

Science fiction is a field of literature that has great interest and great controversy among its writers and critics. This book examines the roots, history, …
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Voices of Vision

by Jayme Lynn Blaschke

As the world around us becomes more fantastic, and science itself more surreal, the realms of science fiction and fantasy become correspondingly both more bizarre …