The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF by David G. Hartwell
The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF
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David G. Hartwell
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The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF

David G. Hartwell with Kathryn Cramer, Gregory Benford, Lewis Padgett, Raymond Z. Gallun, Isaac Asimov, Robert L. Forward, Dean Ing, Hilbert Schenck, Philip Latham, Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Wilhelm, Richard Grant, Theodore L. Thomas, J.G. Ballard, Anne McCaffrey, Tom Godwin, James Blish, Donald Kingsbury, Rudy Rucker, H.G. Wells, Ursula K. Le Guin, Larry Niven, Don A. Stuart, John Sladek, Miles John Breuer, Ian Watson, Bruce Sterling, John M. Ford, Gordon R. Dickson, Theodore Sturgeon, Edward Bryant, Bob Shaw, Randall Garrett, Clifford D. Simak, Poul Anderson, Raymond F. Jones, Frederik Pohl, James Tiptree Jr., Jules Verne, Cordwainer Smith, George Turner, Rudyard Kipling, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alfred Bester, Arthur C. Clarke, Hal Clement, Robert A. Heinlein, Gene Wolfe

992 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

fiction science fiction short stories adventurous slow-paced

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Featuring more than sixty groundbreaking short stories by modern science fiction's most important and influential writers, The Ascent of Wonder offers a definitive and incisive exploration of the SF genre's visionary core.From Poe to Pohl, Wells t...

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