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In the first volume of this continuing series of essays on the great science-fiction writers, Brian M. Stableford provides interesting and readable commentary on six very different SF authors.
Edmond Hamilton is best known for rousing space operas such as The Star Kings, the Captain Future stories, and the Starwolf Trilogy. His wife Leigh Brackett worked in a similar vein, first publishing her romantic, larger-than-life fantasy adventures in Thrilling Wonder Stories and similar pulps, and ending her life having just finished the first draft of the screenplay for The Empire Strikes Back. Kurt Vonnegut has eschewed the science-fiction ghetto, but many of his best-known books, including The Sirens of Titan and Player Piano, were first issued as SF. Barry Malzberg is a writer who has been consistently underestimated by critics and readers alike, a man whose work will survive far longer than most SF writers popular today. Robert Silverberg retired from the field for several years, but has now returned with a huge new success, Lord Valentine's Castle. Finally, Mack Reynolds is science fiction's resident sociologist, a man of immense vision and political acumen.
Published by The Borgo
Press in June 1981
ISBN:0-89370-147-5 - Cloth
ISBN:0-89370-247-1 - Paperback
Cover design by Michael Pastucha
Later revised and expanded as Outside the Human Aquarium
