The Heritage of Heinlein : A Critical Reading of the Fiction (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy)

Clareson, Thomas D./ Sanders, Joe/ Palumbo, Donald E. (EDT)

McFarland & Co Inc（2014/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 232 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786474981
• DDC分類 813.54

Full Description

Robert A. Heinlein is generally recognized as the most important American science fiction writer of the 20th century. This is the first detailed critical examination of his entire career. It is not a biography--that is being done in a two-volume work by William Patterson. Instead, this book looks at each piece of fiction (and a few pieces of sf-related nonfiction) that Heinlein wrote, chronologically by date of publication, in order to consider what each contributes to his overall accomplishment. The aim is to be fair, to look clearly at the strengths and weaknesses of the writings that have inspired generations of readers and writers.

Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword by Frederik Pohl

Preface

A Note on Texts

1. A New Calling: For Us, the Living

2. Early Professional Writing

3. Transitions

4. The Juveniles for Scribner's

5. The "Classic" Period

6. Stranger in a Strange Land

7. The Final Period

Summing-Up

Appendix: Nonfiction

Works Cited

Index