A three volume anthology featuring selections from the work of the first fifteen Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Award winners.

A three volume anthology featuring selections from the work of the first fifteen Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Award winners.

A three volume anthology featuring selections from the work of the first fifteen Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Award winners.

More than 250,000 words of fantastic fiction.

These exciting and unique author profiles are essential to your holdings because sketches are entirely revised and up-to-date, and completely replace the original Contemporary Authors entries. A softcover cumulative index is published twice per year (included in subscription).

Science fiction first emerged in the Industrial Age and continued to develop into its current form during the twentieth century. This book analyses the role Jewish writers played in the process of its creation and development. The author provides a comprehensive overview, bridging such seemingly disparate themes and figures as the ghetto legends of the golem and their influence on both Frankenstein and robots, the role of, Jewish authors and publishers in developing the first science fiction magazine in New York in the 1930s, and their later contributions to new and developing medial forms like comics and film. Drawing on the historical context and the positions Jews held in the larger cultural environment, the author illustrates how themes and tropes in science fiction and fantasy relate back to the realities of Jewish life in the face of global anti-Semitism, the struggle to assimilate in America, and the hope that was inspired by the founding of Israel.

Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.