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The science fiction novel : imagination and social criticism / Basil Davenport [and 5 others].
Van Pelt Library PN3448.S45 S35 1969
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction--History and criticism.
- Science fiction.
- Social problems in literature.
- Genre:
- Science fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (autograph) (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 128 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Advent, 1969 [©1959]
- Summary:
- Essays presented in a University of Chicago lecture series in 1957.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Basil Davenport
- Science fiction: its nature, faults and virtues / Robert A. Heinlein
- The failure of the science fiction novel as social criticism / C.M. Kornbluth
- Science fiction and the renaissance man / Alfred Bester
- Imagination and modern social criticism / Robert Bloch.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy has dustjacket.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 340826
- OCLC:
- 165353
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