Visions of Wonder: the Science Fiction Research Association Reading Anthology

Brief Description: At last, here is a definitive classroom reading anthology of modern science fiction--endorsed by the Science Fiction Research Association. The book includes SF in all its modern diversity, from Golden Age writers, to latter-day titans and current popular writers. Jacket Description/Back: Edited by two of science fiction's most knowledgeable and experienced editors and endorsed by the Science Fiction Research Association, Visions of Wonder was created to fill an urgent need for a thoughtful, readable classroom anthology of science fiction that focuses on science fiction as it is today, in the 1990s. Review Quotes: "A broad-ranging anthology; highly recommended for SF collections."--"Library Journal""An excellent and informed introduction to the genre while also supplying fans with plenty of new pleasures. . . . [A] wise, witty and wonderful collection."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review) Biographical Note: David G. Hartwell, called "an editor extraordinaire" by "Publishers Weekly," is one of science fiction's most experienced and influential editors. As an editor with Berkley Books, Pocket Books, William Morrow, and Tor Books, he has worked with many of the field's best authors and edited many award-winning works. He is the author of "Age of Wonders," a nonfiction study of the science fiction field. Among his many anthologies are the bestselling "World Treasury of Science Fiction" and the World Fantasy Award winner "The Dark Descent." He is the holder of a Ph. D. in comparative literature from Columbia University, a winner of the Eaton Award, and has been nominated for the Hugo Award twenty-four times. Milton T. Wolf is a noted librarian, scholar, and vice president of the Science Fiction Research Association. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. Table of Contents: Introduction Critics (Chapter One of In Search of Wonder)/"Damon Knight"The Ship Who Sang/"Anne McCaffrey"Blood Music/"Greg Bear"Paperjack/"Charles de Lint"Forever Yours, Anna/"Kate Wilhelm"The Golden Age of Science Fiction Is Twelve/"David G. Hartwell"Mr. Boy/"James Patrick Kelly"Jamboree/"Jack Williamson"The Death of Doctor Island/"Gene Wolfe"Ender's Game/"Orson Scott Card"What Do You Mean . . . Human?/"John W. Campbell, Jr."Bears Discover Fire/"Terry Bisson"One Down, One to Go/"Philip Jose Farmer"Sur/"Ursula K. Le Guin"Introduction to England Swings SF/"Judith Merril"Doing Lennon/"Gregory Benford"A Tupolev Too Far/"Brian W. Aldiss"Them Old Hyannis Blues/"Judith Tarr"Paradise Charted/"Algis Budrys"Masque of the Red Shift/"Fred Saberhagen"Redemption in the Quantum Realm/"Frederik Pohl"Devil You Don't Know/"Dean Ing"The Eye of the World (Excerpt)/"Robert Jordan"Split Light/"Lisa Goldstein"Science Fiction & The Adventures of the Spherical Cow/"Kathryn Cramer"The Sun Spider/"Lucius Shepard"Science Fiction and 'Literature' - or, the Conscience of the King/"Samuel R. Delany"Souls/"Loanna Russ" pardOverdrawn at the Memory Bank/"John Varley"The Girl Who Was Plugged In/"James Tiptree"Burning Chrome/"William Gibson"Towards an Aesthetic of Science Fiction/"Joanna Russ"Identifying the Object/"Gwyneth Jones"The Mountain to Mohammed/"Nancy Kress"Wall, Stone, Craft/"Walter Jon Williams"Boobs/"Suzy McKee Charnas"To Bring in Fine Things: The Significance of Science Fiction Plots/"Brian Stableford"Spider Silk/"Andre Norton"A Braver Thing/"Charles Sheffield"Getting Real/"Susan Shwartz"True Names/"Vernor Vinge"Science Fiction: A Selective Guide to Scholarship/"Gary K. Wolfe"Marc Notes: A Tom Doherty Associates book.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 792-798). Publisher Marketing: Edited by two of science fiction's most knowledgeable and experienced editors and endorsed by the Science Fiction Research Association, Visions of Wonder was created to fill an urgent need for a thoughtful, readable classroom anthology of science fiction that focuses on science fiction as it is today, in the 1990s. Review Citations:

Booklist 10/15/1996 pg. 408 (EAN 9780312852870, Paperback)

Library Journal 11/15/1996 pg. 92 (EAN 9780312852870, Paperback)

Publishers Weekly 10/14/1996 pg. 80 (EAN 9780312852870, Paperback) - *Starred Review

Booklist 10/15/1996 pg. 408 (EAN 9780312862244, Hardcover)

Library Journal 11/15/1996 pg. 92 (EAN 9780312862244, Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly 10/14/1996 pg. 80 (EAN 9780312862244, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Contributor Bio:  Hartwell, David G David G. Hartwell is a senior editor of Tor/Forge Books. His doctorate is in Comparative Medieval Literature. He is the proprietor of Dragon Press, publisher and bookseller, which publishes The New York Review of Science Fiction, and the president of David G. Hartwell, Inc. He is the author of Age of Wonders and the editor of many anthologies, including The Dark Descent, The World Treasury of Science Fiction, The Hard SF Renaissance, The Space Opera Renaissance, and a number of Christmas anthologies, among others. Recently he co-edited his fifteenth annual paperback volume of Year's Best SF, and co-edited the ninth Year's Best Fantasy. John Updike, reviewing The World Treasury of Science Fiction in The New Yorker, characterized him as a "loving expert." He is on the board of the IAFA, is co-chairman of the board of the World Fantasy Convention, and an administrator of the Philip K. Dick Award. He has won the Eaton Award, the World Fantasy Award, and has been nominated for the Hugo Award forty times to date, winning as Best Editor in 2006, 2008, and 2009. Contributor Bio:  Wolf, Milton T Milton T. Wolf is a noted librarian, scholar, and vice president of the Science Fiction Research Association. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.