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Breakfast of Champions (1973) provides frantic, scattershot satire and a collage of Vonnegut's obsessions. His recurring cast of characters and American landscape was perhaps the most controversial of his canon; it was felt by many at the time to be a disappointing successor to Slaughterhouse-Five, which had made Vonnegut's literary reputation.
The core of the novel is Kilgore Trout, a familiar character very deliberately modeled
...13) Dragonholder
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The son of the acclaimed science fiction/fantasy writer Anne McCaffrey offers an insider's view into the imagination that created the Dragonrider epic.
14) Stars and gods
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"... collects a dazzling assortment of Niven's most eclectic work into one captivating volume. Here are hand-selected excerpts from his novels ... as well as numerous short stories, nonfiction articles, collaborations, and correspondence"--Jacket.
15) Scatterbrain
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"Now, ten years later, Scatterbrain collects an equally engaging assortment of Larry Niven's latest work, all in one captivating volume. Here are choice excerpts from several of his most recent novels, including The Ringworld Throne and Destiny's Road, as well as numerous short stories, nonfiction articles, interviews, editorials, collaborations, and correspondence.
True to its title, Scatterbrain roams all over a wide variety of fascinating topics,...
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Time travel in the pulps -- Special relativity and time travel in the future -- Time travel to the past -- Hyperspace -- Time as the fourth dimension -- The block universe -- When general relativity made time travel honest -- Paradoxes: changing the past, causal loops, and sex -- Time machines that physicists have already 'invented' -- Faster-than-light (FTL) into the past -- Quantum gravity, splitting universes, and time machines -- Reading the physics...
17) The road to Dune
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In this volume, the world's millions of Dune fans can read - at long last - the unpublished chapters and scenes from Dune and Dune Messiah. The Road to Dune also includes some of the original correspondence between Frank Herbert and famed editor John W. Campbell, Jr., along with other correspondence during Herbert's years-long struggle to get his innovative work published, and the article "They Stopped the Moving Sands," Herbert's original inspiration...
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One of the most gifted and prolific writers of the twentieth century shares his inner thoughts and experiences. Popular science and science fiction writer Asimov (1902-92) wrote a three-volume autobiography, but it is now out of print, along with most other accounts of his own life. His widow, also a writer, has collected and excerpted bits from various sources, including his letters to her, and arranged them by topic rather than chronologically....
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"This charming book is a series of entertaining and thought-provoking musings, mainly about the imagination, the sense of identity, the compulsion to write, and Isaac Asimov-who, as Janet Asimov says, was good at all of them. Dr. Janet J. Asimov, a psychiatrist and celebrated fiction writer, has penned this delightful memoir with insight, poignancy, and wit on topics that she and her husband, Isaac Asimov, found especially meaningful over the years....