American Science Fiction : : Four Classic Novels 1968-1969
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Past master / R. A. Lafferty -- Picnic on Paradise / Joanna Russ -- Nova / Samuel R. Delany -- Emphyrio / Jack Vance.
"In this second volume of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, R. A. Lafferty's quirky and utterly original Past Master, an unjustly neglected classic, imagines Sir Thomas More transported to the colony Astrobe in the year 2535, where he is made president of a future Utopia. In Picnic on Paradise, Joanna Russ presents her indelible heroine, Alyx, who is hired to protect a group of tourists in a hostile alien world. Samuel R. Delany's proto-cyberpunk space opera Nova, reprinted here for the first time in a text corrected by the author, combines the pacing of a revenge story with the arc of a grail-quest legend. Jack Vance's dystopian thriller Emphyrio is the coming-of-age story of Ghyl, who has been raised in a world barring the use of automation but has a strong sense of subversive individualism. The novel has been restored to the author's original text, without later editorial interventions."--Provided by publisher.
Contents: Past master. -- Picnic on paradise. -- Nova. -- Emphyrio.
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Library of America
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Past master.
Picnic on paradise.
Colección NOVA.
Emphyrio.
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : The Library of America, [2019]
Year Published: 2019
Description: 742 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781598535020
1598535021
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Lafferty, R. A.
Russ, Joanna, 1937-2011.
Delany, Samuel R.
Vance, Jack, 1916-2013.
Wolfe, Gary K., 1946-
SUBJECTS
More, Thomas, -- Saint, -- 1478-1535 -- Fiction.
Time travel -- Fiction.
Quests (Expeditions) -- Fiction.
Revolutionaries -- Fiction.
Science fiction.