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Those who can : a science fiction reader / edited by Robin Scott Wilson.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction, American.
- Science fiction--Authorship.
- Science fiction.
- Science fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Genre:
- Science fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 333 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New American Library, 1977.
- Contents:
- Introduction : to the reader
- Plot : the tangled web. Jamboree ; Plotting 'Jamboree' / by Jack Williamson
- We, in some strange power's employ, move on a rigorous line ; Thickening the plot / by Samuel R. Delany
- Character : the determinant of incident. Crazy Maro ; How much does a character cost? / by Daniel Keyes
- Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes ; The whore with a heart of iron pyrites; or, Where does a writer go to find a Maggie? / by Harlan Ellison
- Setting : a local habitation and a name. The man who could not see devils ; On setting / by Joanna Russ
- Sundance ; Introductiion to 'Sundance' / by Robert Silverberg
- Theme : to mean intensely. Nine lives ; On theme / by Ursula K. Le Guin
- An annotated 'Masks' / by Damon Knight
- Point of view : who's minding the store? The planners ; On point of view / by Kate Wilhelm
- For a while there, Herbert Marcuse, I thought you were maybe right about alienation and Eros ; Point of view : the quick-change artist in the typewriter / by Robin Scott Wilson
- Style : the dress of thought. The listeners ; On style / by James E. Gunn
- Grandy devil ; Day million ; On velocity exercises / by Frederick Pohl.
- Notes:
- A Mentor book.
- The annotations of "Masks" occur on the even-numbered (left side) pages, while the story itself is on the odd-numbered (right side) pages.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 280369
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wilson, Robin Scott. Those who can.
- OCLC:
- 983602128
- Publisher Number:
- MJ1595 Mentor Book
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