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CALL AND RESPONSE
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This book contains essays about a wide range of authors from Brian Aldiss to Gene Wolfe via Philip K Dick and Keith Roberts. Included with each of these essays are insightful reviews of some of the authors' most interesting books. The book is rounded off by a comprehensive index produced by Leigh Kennedy. |
Reviews of this book has appeared in the following
journals
Locus #646 (Nov 2014) - by Gary Wolfe
Science Fiction Studies (v42) - by Gary
Wolfe
Foundation #121 - by Erik Jaccard
Sample pieces from this book can be read
here.
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Paul Kincaid is
a critic and reviewer - a regular contributor to a variety of magazines
and journals, such as the BSFA's Vector, Foundation and the New
York Review of Science Fiction. He has also contributed to many SF
reference works, and was for 11 years the administrator of the Arthur
C. Clarke Award. He is the recipient of the Thomas D. Clareson Award
for services to science fiction. His first collection of essays - What it is We Do When We Read Science Fiction - was published by Beccon in 2008. |
Paperback, vi + 385 pages.
230 x 150 mm, perfect bound.
Publication date 14 April 2014.
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ISBN 9781 - 870824 - 62 - 0
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1 ~ Introduction 7 ~ Brian Aldiss 17 ~ Paul Auster 33 ~ Christopher Barzak 39 ~ The Best ...... 65 ~ Arthur C. Clarke 73 ~ John Crowley 89 ~ Samuel R. Delany 103 ~ Philip K. Dick 117 ~ Hal Duncan |
123 ~ Steve Erickson 137 ~ Lisa Goldstein 145 ~ Jon Courtenay Grimwood 151 ~ M. John Harrison 163 ~ Robert Holdstock 179 ~ Gwyneth Jones 189 ~ Paul McAuley 199 ~ Ian McDonald 209 ~ Ken MacLeod 217 ~ China Miéville |
227 ~ The New .... 249 ~ Christopher Priest 269 ~ Alastair Reynolds 277 ~ Keith Roberts 303 ~ Secret Histories 317 ~ Lucius Shepard 323 ~ Jo Walton 331 ~ H.G. Wells 349 ~ Gene Wolfe 363 ~ Index (by Leigh Kennedy) |