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American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1968-1969 (LOA #322): Past Master / Picnic on Paradise / Nova / Emphyrio

Hardback

Main Details

Title American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1968-1969 (LOA #322): Past Master / Picnic on Paradise / Nova / Emphyrio
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Gary K. Wolfe
By (author) R. A. Lafferty
By (author) Joanna Russ
By (author) Samuel R. Delany
By (author) Jack Vance
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:762
Dimensions(mm): Height 208,Width 132
ISBN/Barcode 9781598535020
ClassificationsDewey:813.0876208
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher The Library of America
Imprint The Library of America
Publication Date 5 November 2019
Publication Country United States

Description

Four mind-bending novels from science fiction's most transformative decade in a deluxe collector's edition hardcover, including two long out-of-print classics 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.