American science fiction : four classic novels, 1960-1966 / Gary K. Wolfe, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wolfe, Gary K., 1946- editor.

Series:

Library of America ; 321.

Library of America ; 321

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-alien encounters--Fiction.

Human-alien encounters.

Learning disabilities--Treatment.

Space warfare--Fiction.

Space warfare.

Learning disabilities--Treatment--Fiction.

Learning disabilities.

Genre:

Fiction.

Science fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

xx, 718 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : The Library of America, [2019]

Summary:

"This volume, the first of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, opens with Poul Anderson's immensely popular The High Crusade, in which aliens planning to conquer Earth land in Lincolnshire during the Hundred Years' War. In Clifford Simak's Hugo Award-winning Way Station, Enoch Wallace is a spry 124-year-old Civil War veteran whose lifelong job monitoring the intergalactic pit stop inside his home is largely uneventful--until a CIA agent shows up and Cold War hostilities threaten the peaceful harmony of the Galactic confederation. Daniel Keyes's beloved Flowers for Algernon, winner of the Nebula Award and adapted as the Academy Award-winning movie Charly, is told through the journal entries of Charlie Gordon, a young man with severe learning disabilities who is the test subject for surgery to improve his intelligence. And in the postapocalyptic earthscape of Roger Zelazny's Hugo Award-winning . . . And Call Me Conrad (also published as This Immortal) Conrad Nomikos reluctantly accepts the responsibility of showing the planet to the governing extraterrestrials' representative and protecting him from rebellious remnants of the human race. Using early manuscripts and original setting copy, this Library of America volume restores the novel to a version that most closely approximates Zelazny's original text."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The high crusade / Poul Anderson

Way station / Clifford D. Simak

Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes

...And call me Conrad [This immortal] / Roger Zelazny.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 705-718).

Contains:

Container of: Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001. High crusade.

Container of: Simak, Clifford D., 1904-1988. Way station.

Container of: Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon.

Container of: Zelazny, Roger. This immortal.

Container of: High crusade.

Container of: Way station.

Container of: Flowers for Algernon.

Container of: This immortal.

ISBN:

9781598535013

1598535013

OCLC:

1080587358