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A look at the the life and works of Arthur C. Clarke.

This is the first guide to the works of this well-known SF writer. When Roger Zelazny exploded on the science fiction in 1962, it was not with a whimper, but a bang. The fallout was a shower of simile, symbol, and allusion. Images fresh and new burst in fields of variegated color. Rich tapestries full of mythic characters and beasts unfolded in poetic excapes from reality-and always with great style. Yoke, a close friend of Zelazny's since they shared a desk in the first grade, here delineates the author's work, from his very first explorations of fantasy through such classics as Lord of Light, Home is the Hangman, and the magestic Amber series.

An overview and analysis of the life and early works of Philip Jose Farmer.

A chronology and study of Haldeman's life and works up to 1980.

An in-depth study of the Man and Work of Frank Herbert.

A chronology, study, and annotated bibliography of Bester's works, both within and outside of the science fiction genre.

Dr. Lahna F. Diskin examines the life and work of American science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon.

An Overview and Dissection of The Life and Work of SF Grandmaster Fritz Leiber.

Gary K. Wolfe examines the life and work of British author David Lindsay, most famous for his novels "A Voyage to Arcturus," "The Haunted Woman," and "The Devil's Tor."

An overview and critical review of the life and works of Samuel R. Delany.

Donald M. Hassler examines the life and work of American science fiction author Hal Clement.

The Man, The Myth, The Legend, The Work of Philip K. Dick.

(As reported upon by Hazel Pierce.)

Contains twenty four short stories, novelettes, and short novels, including The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and At the Mountains of Madness, as well as twenty six poems. This edition has a fine introduction by S.T. Joshi, photographs of H.P. Lovecraft, and an attractive binding, uniform with others in this series.

A now classic and fundamental treatise on C.S. Lewis, his life, and his work.

A now classic study of the Life, Works, and Legacy of Jack London.

The Life and Fiction of the Master of the Macabre.

This is an early critical look at the life and work of Stephen King.

A now classic treatise on the earlier works of Robert Silverberg.

Robert Crossley provides a comprehensive examination of Wells's best-known SF and fantasy works-and their impact on later writers and thinkers. Complete with Chronology, Primary and Secondary Bibliographies, and Index.

A now classic study on the Early work of Piers Anthony.

A now classic work on the Life, Work, and influence of the British S.F. Master Olaf Stapledon.

An indepth look at the writer, the fiction, and the firestorm surrounding one of SF great female writers.

A now classic three part monogram on three women SF authors: Suzy McKee Charnas, Joan Vinge, and Octavia Butler.

Contents:

• Joan Vinge - essay by Richard Law
• Octavia Butler - essay by Ruth Salvaggio
• Suzy McKee Charnas - essay by Marleen S. Barr

A now classic study of Smith's life, his work, and the impact his fiction has produced upon S.F. form, thought, and literary culture.

A now classic monograph on the Life, Fantasy works, and Influence of Charles Williams.

Peter Brigg examines the life and work of British author J.G. Ballard, from his science fiction to his mainstream fiction. The book covers up to the early eighties.

This book is intended as a guide for those who want to know about the science fiction written by Marion Zimmer Bradley. It is not written for people who have written doctoral dissertations about science fiction nor for those who are about to, although both these groups may find here some fact, insight or other valuable thing not found elsewhere. This book is what the title says: a reader's guide. As I put it together, I followed the general format of all the other books in this series, so there are a chronology, and introductory chapter, two comprehensive bibliographies, and an index.

A now classic study of the life and work of Brian W. Aldiss.

An annotated bibliography and criticism of Gene Wolfe's early science fiction and non-fiction writing.

An overview and critical analysis of the life and early work of Anne McCaffrey.

A now classic study of the Life and Work of Ray Bradbury.

Stanislaw Lem is considered by many critics to be the world's greatest living science fiction writer (as of 1991) and has been called a literary movement in himself. In Poland and the Soviet Union paper quotas have caused a black market for his newest books and some of his novels are required reading in schools. In the West his audience has steadily grown after Lem first created major attention with Solaris (1961) and has followed it with provocative and inventive short stories and novels that exhibit so many talents that he almost seems like a consortium of Polish writers.

In this volume, J. Madison Davis, a novelist and critic, ranges over the entire body of Lem's fiction available in English from adventure to humor to philosophy to postmodernist fictions, illuminating the biography, the major themes, and the amazing phenomenon of a writer who in his entire life has traveled only a few hundred miles from his birthplace and yet has explored the universe.

This book, Children's Fantasy, focuses on one distinct sub genre, the fantasy written for children. It is intended for the general reader, especially any one wanting to learn something about the richness and variety children's fantasy does exhibit.

Since this work could be called a classic work, published in 1989, it could also be called a primer of Children's Fantasy before the Harry Potter phenomenom.

A now classic study of the Horror work of writer Ira Levin.

A now classic monograph on the Life, Work, and Influence of pulp Fantasy Master Robert E. Howard.

A now classic study of the ouvre of a Writer, who happens to be a woman, and not just a woman writer of some renown. This is a work that manages to place Shelley in the pantheon of writers far better than any of the typical single-minded feminist axe grinders so common in todays cult of litterateur.

The first book-length analysis of the work of Robert Bloch (1917-1994).

Best known for writing Psycho, the novel the Hitchcock thriller was based upon, Bloch has written all manner of short stories and thriller novels since the 1930s. This book covers them all in intricate detail through 1986.

"A book-length study was long overdue, and Randall Larson's book fills the gap admirably. Readable, informed, and balanced, it deals with all the sides of Bloch, the writer whose professionalism never disguises his pessimism, the humorist with a grin as wide as a skull's, the master of the macabre who advances the genre into darker territories..." - Ramsey Campbell

"The Reader's Guide to Robert Bloch is a remarkable achievement. Randall Larson's criticism is enthusiastic, informed, and consistency on mark, and should prove the definitive work on one of horror fiction's few genuine grandmasters." - Douglas E. Winter

A now classic treatise on the life and work of Frederik Pohl.

Well-known critic Hassler here contributes a comprehensive survey of Asimov's major fiction, from his beginnings as a short-story writer in "The Campbell Years," through his early and juvenile novels, including a complete outline and evaluation of the author's ever-popular Robot and Foundation series.

A now classic study on the Life, Work, and continuing influence of Abraham Merritt.

A now classic monograph on the first part of the Life, Work, and Influence of the Fantasy author Peter Beagle.

A now classic monogram on the Life, Work, and Influence of SF author George Alec Effinger.

A now classic study of the beginning portion of the Life, Work, and Influence of the Fantasy Master Stephen Donaldson.

A now classic monograph on the Life, Work, and enduring Influence of Lewis Carroll.

A now classic survery of the Life, Works, and Influence of Horror maestro Ramsey Campbell.

Contents:

• Life and Thought
• the Lovecraftian Tales
• the Tales of Illusion
• the Doll Who Ate His Mother
• the Face That Must Die
• the Parasite
• the Nameless
• Incarnate
• Night of the Claw
• Obsession
• the Hungry Moon
• Novelizations and Non Fiction
• Conclusion
• Primary and Secondray Bibliography
• Index

A critical guide to the life and work of Clark Ashton Smith.

A look at the life and works of Christopher Priest.

A treatise on the Life and Work of English SF author John Wyndham.

A now rare and classic collection of essays consisting of bibliographical, informative, and critical analyses of the LOTR, Silmarillion, and Tolkien's minor fiction. This is accomplished without an emphasis on plot summaries. The focus is more on Tolkien as scholar.

Lance Olsen's discerning critique was the first extended study ever published on the work of William Gibson, whose mindbending science fiction novel, Neuromancer (1984), created the subgenre of Cyberpunk, and became the first novel to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards for best SF novel of the year. Olsen covers Gibson's major early works, including Neuromancer, Burning Chrome, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive. Complete with bibliography, notes, and index.

A now classic study on the earlier Life, Work, and Influence of Kurt Vonnegut.

Morse argues that Vonnegut deserves acclaim as a pre-eminent post-World War II American story-teller with a sharply critical, satiric vision, who against formidable odds retains his belief in the humanity of man and the sacredness of life. The Guide surveys a vast range of Vonnegut's published works, including all of his novels from Player Piano to Bluebeard. Complete with Chronology, Primary and Secondary Bibliographies, and Index.