Record ID: |
2241485 |
Variant Title: |
Dictionary of the great s.f. themes |
Variant Title: |
Dictionary of the great science fiction themes |
Format: |
Regular Print Book |
Physical description: |
xvii, [1], 651 pages ; 24 cm. |
Date acquired: |
January 23, 2014
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More creator details: |
collected by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, [and] Charles G. Waugh. |
Contents note: |
Dictionaries / Isaac Asimov -- Too soon to die / Tom Godwin -- A museum piece / Roger Zelazny -- Why Johnny can't speed / Alan Dean Foster -- Man in a quandary / L. J. Stecher, Jr. -- The cabbage patch / Theodore R. Cogswell -- A touch of grapefruit / Richard Matheson -- Answer / Fredric Brown -- A gun for dinosaur / L. Sprague de Camp -- A pail of air / Fritz Leiber -- The odor of thought / Robert Sheckley -- The last monster / Poul Anderson -- History lesson / Arthur C. Clarke -- The troublemaker / Christopher Anvil -- The game of rat and dragon / Cordwainer Smith -- Let's be Frank / Brian W. Aldiss -- The easy way out / Lee Correy -- All cats are gray / Andre Norton -- The man from Earth / Gordon R. Dickson -- Dream damsel / Evan Hunter -- The underdweller / William F. Nolan -- Top secret / Eric Frank Russell -- One love have I / Robert F. Young -- The snowball effect / Katherine MacLean -- The Santa Claus problem / J. W. Schutz -- The ship who sang / Anne McCaffrey -- No harm done / Jack Sharkey -- There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury -- In the jaws of danger / Piers Anthony -- In the abyss / H. G. Wells -- Custer's last jump / Steven Utley and / Howard Waldrop -- Game preserve / Rog Phillips -- Life hutch / Harlan Ellison -- Quest -- The silk and the song / Charles L. Fontenay -- Down to the worlds of men / Alexei Panshin -- Robbie / Isaac Asimov -- The man with English / H. L. Gold -- Transstar / Raymond E. Banks -- Open warfare / James E. Gunn -- The long way home / Fred Saberhagen -- Skirmish on a summer morning / Bob Shaw -- Gantlet / Richard E. Peck -- Saucer of loneliness / Theodore Sturgeon -- The mother of necessity / Chad Oliver -- The great secret / George H. Smith -- The draw / Jerome Bixby -- For the sake of Grace / Suzette Haden Elgin -- A death in the house / Clifford D. Simak -- Creature of the snows / William Sambrot -- A criminal act / Harry Harrison -- The cage / A. Bertram Chandler. |
Access restriction: |
FOR USE IN MERRIL COLLECTION ONLY. NOT AVAILABLE FOR INTERLIBRARY LOAN |
Contributor: |
Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992, editor.
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Contributor: |
Greenberg, Martin Harry.
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Contributor: |
Waugh, Charles G. (Charles Gordon), 1943-
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