On SF

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This collection by the much-loved and lauded science-fiction writer Thomas Disch spans twenty-five years of his career, during which he has supplemented his creative output with reviews and critical essays in publications as diverse as the Nation, the New York Times Book Review, the Atlantic Monthly, and Twilight Zone.

Disch's perspectives on his genre are skeptical, novel, and often incendiary. The volume's opening essay, for example, characterizes writers of science fiction as "the provincials of literature." Other essays explore science fiction's roots-Poe, Bradbury, Clarke, Asimov, Vonnegut-as well as modern practitioners such as Stephen King, Philip Dick, Robert Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and William Gibson.

Disch entertains and provokes with essays on UFOs, Science Fiction as a Church, and Newt Gingrich's Futurist Brain Trust. Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Madame Blavatsky also get the Disch treatment. Throughout, the writing is lively, agile, and irreverent, exhibiting an incisive honesty that is undiluted by Disch's own attachments as a sci-fi practitioner. On SF will appeal equally to lovers of science fiction and connoisseurs of the finest critical prose.

Contents

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Part One: The Forest The Embarrassments of Science Fiction Ideas: A Popular Misconception Mythology and Science Fiction Big Ideas and Dead-End Thrills: The Further Embarrassments of Science Fiction .Dinosaurs versus New Wave versus Cyberpunk .Youth, Too Often Callow Part Two: Forefathers Poe's Appalling Life Luncheon in the Sepulcher: Poe in the Gothic Tradition BRAVE NEW WORLD Revisited Once Again A Tableful of Twinkies Sic, Sic, Sic A Bus Trip to Heaven The Doldrums of Space Isaac Asimov (1920�92) Jokes across the Generation Gap Time, Space, the Limitlessness of the Imagination--and Abs to Die for Part Three: The Bully Pulpit The King and His Minions: Thoughts of a TWILIGHT ZONE Reviewer Talking with Jesus The Labor Day Group 1979: Fluff and Fizzles The Feast of St. Bradbury Part Four: Selected Larger Trees A Different Different World Crowley's Poetry Wolfe's New Sun The Champion of Cyberpunk: On Two Works by William Gibson Queen Victoria's Computers Dick's First Novel In the Mold of 1964: An Afterword Part Five: Crazy Neighbors The Village Alien UFOs and the Origins of Christianity Science Fiction as a Church The Evidence of Things Not Seen The Road to Heaven: Science Fiction and the Militarization of Space Speaker Moonbeam: Newt's Futurist Brain Trust A Closer Look at CLOSE ENCOUNTERS Primal Hooting Part Six: After the Future The Day of the Living Dead The Fairy Tale Kingdom of Baghdad SF: Guides to the Ghetto Over the River and Through the Wood Measures of Hanging The Secret Code Language of Bright Kids Double Talk, Double Dutch, Dutch Chocolate Acknowledgments Index

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