Selected Memoirs&Letters by Science-Fiction Authors&Fans.
Explore a curated collection of selected memoirs and letters by renowned science-fiction authors and fans. Dive into personal stories, insights, and rare correspondences that shaped the genre. Perfect for sci-fi enthusiasts and literary historians alike.
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Experiment in Autobiography
by Herbert George Wells
The British author recounts his childhood, education, and career as a journalist and writer, and shares his views on education, religion, marriage, and literature
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A Requiem for Astounding
by Alva Rogers
A detailed and comprehensive history of the science fiction pulp magazine Astounding Stories / Astounding Science Fiction from its birth in 1930 until it turned into Analog in 1960.
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Wonder's Child
by Jack Williamson
Telling much more than the story of a single man's life and work, this autobiography is an amazing look at the entire 20th century from the eyes of one of the greatest voices in science fiction. This story of a man plagued with a perpetual sense of wonder at the world around him begins with Williamson's youth and his family's struggle to survive on farms in the arid southwestern United States. Early attempts at education, the publication of his first story, his service in the Pacific during World War II, and his eventual success in the genre of science fiction are all detailed to tell the life of this Hugo Award- winning author.
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Over My Shoulder
by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
The informal story of the science fiction book field in the 1930's, 40's, and 50's then almost totally the providence of the amateur specialist publisher, set against the background and life of an early science fiction fan and writer. Fantasy Press, Gnome, Shasta, Prime, Grant, FPCI, Arkham House -- those were the kingpins of science fiction publishing three or four decades ago. From its details emerges a picture of a handful of men who accomplished things as fantastic in their own way as the fiction they published. With a 16-page photo supplement, index, and checklist of published books.
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Astounding Days
by Arthur Charles Clarke
Clarke reveals the tale of a young boy growing up in England, who is captured by the wonders of science and the fiction that brings it to life. A must for all genuine fans of science fiction, Astounding Days is a fascinating work of literary history and a touching personal memoir.
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In Memory Yet Green
by Isaac Asimov
The first volume of the autobiography of a prominent scientist and prolific author, covering the first thirty-four years of his life.
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Yours, Isaac Asimov
by Stanley Asimov
Isaac Asimov was one of the most prolific authors of our time. When he died in 1992 at the age of seventy-two, he had published more than 470 books in nearly every category of fiction and nonfiction. Asimov was a prodigious correspondent as well as a prolific author. During his professional career he received more than one hundred thousand letters, over ninety thousand of which he answered. For Asimov's younger brother, veteran newspaperman Stanley Asimov, the creation of Yours, Isaac Asimov was truly a labor of love. Completed before Stanley's death in August 1995, the book is made up of excerpts from one thousand never-before-published letters, each handpicked by Stanley for inclusion in this volume. Arranged by subject and accompanied by Stanley's short, insightful introductions, here are letters to statesmen and scientists, actors and authors, as well as to children, housewives, aspiring writers, and fans the world over. The letters are warm, engaging, reasoned, and occasionally impassioned. Through them all Isaac Asimov's legendary genius, wit, and charm shine through. And so we have Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters, an intimate glimpse into the thoughts, feelings, and opinions of a great writer and thinker of the modern age. As Stanley Asimov advised, "Read the letters carefully. One of them may have been written to you."
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Reflections of A. E. Van Vogt: The Autobiography of a Science Fiction Giant
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Wolf Man's Maker
by Curt Siodmak
Clarke, was adapted into a radio presentation by Orson Welles."--Jacket.
