American Science Fiction : : Four Classic Novels, 1960-1966
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The high crusade / Poul Anderson -- Way station / Clifford D. Simak -- Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes -- ...And call me Conrad [This immortal] / Roger Zelazny.
"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: High crusade. -- Way station. -- Flowers for Algernon. -- This immortal.
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High crusade.
Way station.
Flowers for Algernon.
This immortal.
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : The Library of America, [2019]
Year Published: 2019
Description: 718 pages ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781598535013
1598535013
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Wolfe, Gary K., 1946-
Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001.
Simak, Clifford D., 1904-1988.
Keyes, Daniel.
Zelazny, Roger.
SUBJECTS
Human-alien encounters -- Fiction.
Space warfare -- Fiction.
Learning disabilities -- Treatment -- Fiction.
Science fiction.