Twentieth-century American science-fiction writers / edited by David Cowart and Thomas L. Wymer ; foreword by Thomas M. Disch.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Detroit : Gale Research Co., 1981
Description
1 online resource (2 volumes) : illustrations

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Series
Dictionary of literary biography Twentieth-century American science-fiction writers
Summary note
Profiles approximately one hundred American science fiction authors who began writing between 1900 and 1970, presenting primary and secondary bibliographies and illustrated biographical essays that chronicle each writer's career in detail; and includes eight essays on the genre and its fandom.
Notes
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (v. 2, p. [325]-331 & "Cumulative index, volumes 1-8": v. 2, p. [335]-346)
Language note
English
Contents
  • pt. 1. A-L: Poul Anderson (1926- )
  • Piers Anthony (1934- )
  • Isaac Asimov (1920- )
  • Alfred Bester (1913- ) --Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (1923- )
  • James Blish (1921-1975)
  • Anthony Boucher (1911-1968)
  • John Boyd (1919- )
  • Leigh Brackett (1915-1978)
  • Ray Bradbury (1920- )
  • Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930- ) --Fredric Brown (1906- )
  • A.J. Budrys (1931- )
  • Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
  • William S. Burroughs (1914- )
  • John W. Campbell, Jr. (1910-1971)
  • Hal Clement (1922- )
  • Ray Cummings (1887-1957)
  • Avram Davidson (1923- )
  • L. Sprague de Camp (1907- )
  • Samuel R. Delany (1942- )
  • Lester del Rey (1915- )
  • Philip K. Dick (1928- )
  • Gordon Dickson (1923- )
  • Thomas M. Disch (1940- )
  • George Alec Effinger (1947- )
  • Harlan Ellison (1934- )
  • Philip Jose Farmer (1918- )
  • Jack Finney (1911- )
  • Hugo Gernsback (1884-1967)
  • David Gerrold (1944- )
  • Mark S. Geston (1946- )
  • James E. Gunn (1923- ) --Joe Haldeman (1943- ) --Edmond Hamilton (1904-1977)
  • Charles L. Harness (1915- ) --Harry Harrison (1925- )
  • Robert A. Heinlein (1907- )
  • Zenna Henderson (1917- )
  • Frank Herbert (1920- )
  • Damon Knight (1922- ) C.M. Kornbluth (1923-1958)
  • Henry Kuttner (1915-1958)
  • R.A. Lafferty (1914- )
  • Keith Laumer (1925- )
  • Ursula K. Le Guin (1929- )
  • Fritz Leiber (1910- )
  • Murray Leinster (1896-1975)
  • Jack London (1876-1916).
  • pt. 2. M-Z: John D. MacDonald (1916- )
  • Katherine Anne MacLean (1925- )
  • Barry N. Malzberg (1939- )
  • Richard Matheson (1926- )
  • Anne McCaffrey (1926- )
  • Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1923- )
  • Catherine L. Moore (1911- )
  • Ward Moore (1903-1978)
  • Larry Niven (1938- ) --William F. Nolan (1928- )
  • Andre Norton (1912- )
  • Alan E. Nourse (1928- )
  • Chad Oliver (1928- )
  • Edgar Pangborn (1909-1976)
  • Alexei Panshin (1940- )
  • H. Beam Piper (1904-1964)
  • Frederik Pohl (1919- )
  • Mark Reynold (1917- )
  • Joanna Russ (1937
  • )
  • Fred Saberhagen (1930- )
  • Pamela Sargent (1948- )
  • James H. Schmitz (1911- )
  • Robert Sheckley (1928- )
  • Robert Silverberg (1935- )
  • Clifford D. Simak (1904- )
  • Cordwainer Smith (1913-1966)
  • E.E. Smith (1890-1965)
  • George O. Smith (1911- )
  • Norman Spinrad (1940- )
  • George R. Stewart (1865-1980)
  • Theodore Sturgeon (1919- )
  • William Tenn (1919- )
  • James Tiptree, Jr. (1915- )
  • Jack Vance (1916?- )
  • A.E. van Vogt (1912- )
  • Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922- )
  • Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (1902-1935)
  • Kate Wilhelm (1928- )
  • Jack Williamson (1908- )
  • Gene Wolfe (1931- )
  • George Zebrowski (1945- )
  • Roger Zelazny (1937- ).
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