Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow: A Discursive Symposium

Bright and Clean. 1974 printing. Minor edge wear and rubs, minor page age tanning. 342 pages..

Literature & Fiction

Jack Williamson

Ben BOVA

Gordon R. Dickson

Hal Clement

James Gunn

Frank, Herbert

ANNE MCCAFFREY

frederik-pohl

POUL ANDERSON

History & Criticism

Penguin

The simple but profound story of a life of detachment through wandering and prayer, and one of the most widely circulated prayer guides in the world. In 1884, a slim volume containing four short tales appeared in Russia telling of a pilgrim, a lone wanderer, led by his quiet curiosity and deep spiritual longing to undertake a lifelong journey across the land. The pilgrim's ancient journey takes him from a city monastery through forests, fields and the steppes of Siberia. He walks by day and by night, through rain and summer months, finding food and shelter where he can. Along the way, he encounters priests and professors, convicts, nuns and beggars, a tipsy old man in a soldier's greatcoat, from whom he slowly gathers great stores of wisdom and experience. But at the heart of his journey is his time spent praying as he journeys alone, discovering the peace and consolation that come from constant prayer and silent contemplation. Simple and sincere, The Way of a Pilgrim paints an enduring picture of a life of detachment through wandering and prayer. And, as the pilgrim makes his way through the wilds, he invites us to travel with him along an ancient path into an immense, mystical landscape.

The Way of a Pilgrim: Candid Tales of a Wanderer to His Spiritual Father (Penguin Classics)

History

Russia

Penguin Classics

Gordon R. Dickson's "Childe Cycle" of novels depicting the future of the human race has been one of the grand epics of science fiction. At the time of his death in 2001, Dickson was writing Antagonist, the tale of Bleys Ahrens' turn toward darkness. Now Dickson's assistant David W. Wixon has brilliantly finished the long-awaited book, working from Dickson's copious notes. Antagonist is a fitting capstone to one of the most ambitious series in SF history. The Childe Cycle is the story of a new human evolution: the development of a real, hardwired sense of "responsibility" shared by all human beings. Donal Graeme was a Dorsai, a mercenary soldier, and also a mutant gifted with insight into the path forward for the human race. Through his gifts Donal would come to bend time and live three lifetimes--and, in the process, run into problems he had not expected: first, his own flaws, and second, the existence of another mutant, Bleys Ahrens. Following Young Bleys and Other, Antagonist advances the story of the formidably powerful Bleys Ahrens. Bleys is a man with a clear vision of the struggle in which he's involved--but an increasingly deficient sense of human values. He and his organization, the Others, are tracking down an elusive interplanetary opposition. Meanwhile, Bleys' own intricate conspiracies and devisings, and his quest for power, which began with the best of motives, have become something darker and fiercer. He's committed to his plans. They may bring about the advent of Homo superior. And they may destroy the human race.

Antagonist (Bleys)

David W. Wixon

Contemporary

Tor Books

Necromancer

Tor Science Fiction

Tactics Of Mistake

It's obvious that Cletus Graeme—limping, mild-mannered scholarly—doesn't belong on a battle field, but instead at a desk working on his fourth book on battle strategy and tactics. But Bakhalla has more battlefields than libraries, and Graeme sees his small force of Dorsai—soldiers of fortune—as the perfect opportunity to test his theories. But if his theories or his belief in the Dorsai lead him astray, he's a dead man.

Tactics of Mistake

Decade: The 1960's

BRIAN W. ALDISS

ROBERT SILVERBERG

Harvey Jacobs

Pamela Zoline

J.G.Ballard

Frederick Pohl

kurt-vonnegut

michael-moorcock

Mack. Reynolds

Privately Published

The Dragon and the George

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Del Rey

The Star Road

Doubleday Company, Inc.

Following the advice of his father, young Charlie Stuart travels to a planet 200 light years from Earth and there finds himself involved in a political struggle.

Star Prince Charlie

BERKLEY

DELL QUANTUM PAPERBACK, 1978. This is a science fiction novel by a master, about the first manned Mars mission. Hugo Award Honorable Mention. First paperback edition.

The Far Call

Science Fiction

Dell Publishing

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