(Ebook) Isaac Asimov The Foundations of Science Fiction 1st Edition by James Gunn ISBN 9780810854208 0810854201

(Ebook) Isaac Asimov The Foundations of Science Fiction 1st Edition by James Gunn ISBN 9780810854208 0810854201

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ISBN 10: 0810854201
ISBN 13: 9780810854208
Author: James Gunn

Updates and expands science fiction scholar James Gunn's definitive, Hugo Award-winning critical volume about Isaac Asimov and his contributions to the science fiction genre.
This is more a literary biography than anything else. While James Gunn hits the high points of Asimov's life, they don't get much attention. What does get page space is Asimov's writing. Gunn does not linger over the non-fiction, but he summarizes most of Asimov's important fiction, including several of his short stories and novellas, the Foundation and Robot novels, and The Gods Themselves. If you haven't read much Asimov and think you might like to, this is not the book for you, because it gives away the plots. If you have read a lot of Asimov, this shouldn't be a problem. You may even find, as I did, that you remembered certain books or stories but had forgotten who had written them. For scholars, Gunn includes a chronology of Isaac Asimov's life, a checklist of his works and a short bibliography of works about him. The book has a moderately detailed index. Gunn also includes the transcript of an interview he did with Asimov in 1979, when he was preparing the first edition of Asimov: the Foundations of Science Fiction, which won a Hugo Award. Several times in the interview, Gunn proposes theories about Asimov's works and Asimov says things like 'You're perfectly right' and 'I think perhaps you're right' and 'Well, now, I'm glad you said that, because this is not something I have myself spent time thinking of, but I think you're right now that you present it.' Unless Isaac Asimov was being terribly polite, and that doesn't seem likely, he believed that James Gunn understood him very well and agreed with Gunn's analyses. This can be good or bad. If you like the confrontational, sensational, muckraking sort of biography, any approval by the biographee is suspect. However, if you're looking for accuracy, it's nice

(Ebook) Isaac Asimov The Foundations of Science Fiction 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part 1: Epigraph

Part 2: Preface

Chapter 1: I, Asimov

Chapter 2: The Foundations of Science Fiction

Chapter 3: Variations upon a Robot

Chapter 4: The Short Stories

Chapter 5: The Robot Novels

Chapter 6: The Other Novels

Chapter 7: The Stuff Itself

Chapter 8: The Best-Selling Author

Part 9: Chronology

Part 10: Checklist of Works by Isaac Asimov

Part 11: Select List of Works about Isaac Asimov

Part 12: An Interview with Isaac Asimov

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