Name: Against the New Gods and Other Essays on Writers of Imaginative Fiction
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Author: Brian Stableford
ISBN: 9781434457431

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Against the New Gods and Other Essays on Writers of Imaginative Fiction

Editorial:: Wildside Press
Año de edición:: 2009
Materia: Estudios literarios: ficción, novelistas y prosistas
ISBN:: 9781434457431

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Eight highly-readable essays on science fiction and fantasy writers, including David Brin, Jonathan Carroll, Samuel R. Delany, Joe Haldeman, Robert Irwin, Graham Joyce, Michael Shea, plus a major piece, 'Against the New Gods,' on British SF and crime writer Sydney Fowler Wright. Complete with Bibliography and Index. 3

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