The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF
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ISBN: 0312855095 / Publisher: Orb Books, August 1997
Gathers more than sixty stories by Gregory Benford, Arthur C. Clarke, Hal Clement, Robert Forward, Robert A. Heinlein, Bob Shaw, Gordon R. Dickson, Larry Niven, Rudy Rucker, James Blish, Jules Verne, and Frederick Pohl
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Featuring more than sixty groundbreaking short stories by modern science fiction's most important and influential writers, The Ascent of Wonder offers a definitive and incisive exploration of the SF genre's visionary core.From Poe to Pohl, Wells to Wolfe, and Verne to Vinge, this hefty anthology fully charts the themes, trends, thoughts, and traditions that comprise the challenging yet rich literary form known as "hard SF."
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