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Author
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Gold is the final and crowning achievement of the fifty-year career of science fiction's transcendent genius, the world-famous author who defined the field of science fiction for its practitioners, its millions of readers, and the world at large.
The first section contains stories that range from the humorous to the profound, at the heart of which is the title story, "Gold," a moving and revealing drama about a writer who gambles everything on a...
Author
Publisher
Trinity University Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In Maps of the Imagination, Peter Turchi posits the idea that maps help people understand where they are in the world in the same way that literature, whether realistic or experimental, attempts to explain human realities. The author explores how writers and cartographers use many of the same devices for plotting and executing their work, making crucial decisions about what to include and what to leave out, in order to get from here to there, without...
Author
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This is a book about the importance of fiction not alone as an aesthetic phenomenon but as a means of knowledge and discovery. The book argues that superior fiction is able to rise to levels of understanding-of worldly events, of human relationships, of human nature itself-unavailable to other disciplines or forms of learning. It goes on to argue that especially in our day, a time when so many various ideas are afloat, fiction is of the greatest...
Author
Publisher
Underwood Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A collection of Silverberg's essays from the last twenty years which were originally published in Galileo Magazine, Amazing Stories, and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine chronicling events both in science fiction and the world in general.
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Samuel Beckett as a guru for business executives? James Joyce as a guide to living a good life? The notion of notoriously experimental authors sharing a shelf with self-help books might seem far-fetched, yet a hidden history of rivalry, influence, and imitation links these two worlds. In The Self-Help Compulsion, Beth Blum reveals the profound entanglement of modern literature and commercial advice from the late nineteenth century to the present...
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