The Secret History of Science fictiom
By: edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Published: 2009
Place of publication: San Francisco, Calif., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9781892391933
Description: Editors James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel have collected these nineteen stories to explore the supposed divide between mainstream literature and speculative fiction. They've written an eye-opening and informative introduction as well as compiled dozens of quotes by the individual authors on the subject of science fiction vs. literary fiction.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel; title: Angouleme / Thomas M. Disch; title: The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin; title: Ladies and Gentlemen, This Is Your Crisis / Kate Wlihelm; title: Descent of Man / T.C. Boyle; title: Human Moments of World War III / Don DeLillo; title: Homelanding / Margaret Atwood; title: The Nine Billion Names of God / Carter Scholz; title: Interlocking Pieces / Molly Gloss; title: Salvador / Lucius Shepard; title: Schwarzchild Radius / Connie Willis; title: Buddha Nostril Bird / John Kessel; title: The Ziggurat / Gene Wolfe; title: The Hardened Criminals / Jonathan Lethem; title: Standing Room Only / Karen Joy Fowler - 10 to power of 16 to 1 / James Patrick Kelly; title: 93990 / George Saunders; title: The Martian Agent, A Planetary Romance / Michael Chabon; title: Frankenstein's Daughter / Maureen F. McHugh; title: The Wizard of West Orange / Steven Millhauser.