Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction

Written by a well-known science fiction writer, Encyclopedia of Science Fiction provides comprehensive coverage of the major works and authors that make up this popular genre, in approximately 500 detailed A-to-Z entries. Author entries include a discussion of the writer's life and work. Entries on works discuss the work's literary merits and its place in the tradition of the genre. A glossary of science fiction terms, a bibliography of secondary sources, and a complete bibliography of the science fiction works of all authors mentioned add to this unique reference. Coverage includes such writers as Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Philip K. Dick, and such works as The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin, Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein, and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.D'Ammassa, Don is the author of 'Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction', published 2005 under ISBN 9780816059249 and ISBN 0816059241.