Damon Knight était un auteur américain de science-fiction, reconnu pour ses explorations perspicaces de la psyché humaine et de la société dans des paysages futuristes. Ses œuvres abordaient fréquemment les dilemmes éthiques et les questions existentielles découlant des avancées technologiques. Par sa perspective critique et sa narration innovante, il a considérablement influencé la trajectoire du genre et inspiré les générations suivantes d'écrivains.
Set on the intriguing world of Terranova, the story follows Algernon Weaver, a timid man who grapples with the concept of destiny. As he navigates this unfamiliar landscape, he encounters opportunities for growth and understanding, revealing profound lessons about fate and self-discovery. The narrative explores themes of courage and personal transformation against a backdrop of adventure and exploration.
Distilled from decades of teaching and practice, this book offers clear and direct advice on structure, pacing, dialogue, getting ideas, working with the unconscious, and more. Newly revised and expanded for this Third Edition, Creating Short Fiction is a popular and widely trusted guide to writing short stories of originality, durability, and quality. Celebrated short-story author and writing instructor Knight also includes many examples and exercises that have been effective in classrooms and workshops everywhere.
The leading writers in SF create a galaxy of entertainment in these startling, often nightmarish stories set in deep space, beneath the sea, on Mars, Mercury and Jupiter, and at varying times on planet Earth. Memorable adventures with a satisfying touch of wonder and always plausible. Contents Brightside Crossing • by Alan E. Nourse Coventry (Future History) • by Robert A. Heinlein Desertion (City) • by Clifford D. Simak Happy Ending • by Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore (as Henry Kuttner) Nightfall • by Isaac Asimov The Deep Range • by Arthur C. Clarke The Mile-Long Spaceship • by Kate Wilhelm The Seesaw (Weapon Shops of Isher) • by A. E. van Vogt Twilight (Twilight #1) • by John W. Campbell Jr. (as Don A. Stuart) The Million-Year Picnic (The Martian Chronicles) • by Ray Bradbury
Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback editions of classic science fiction double novels. The first novel, "Earth Quarter," written by Damon Knight, is an exciting look at the dark side of human nature. When it came down to it, death and hardship were no obstacle to the people of the Quarter. Obviously, patriotism has a price... The second novel, "Envoy to New Worlds," features six short stories featuring author Keith Laumer's famed sci-fi diplomat, Retief. Contained here are several accounts of Retief's contributions to the peace of the universe-written in the hope that the injustices committed by the history books will thus be rectified.
First Voyages is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Damon Knight, Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander, first published in paperback by Avon Books in May 1981. It is a compilation of the first published stories of twenty prominent authors in the genre, and an expansion of Knight's earlier First Maiden Voyages in Space and Time (Lancer Books, 1963), which covered ten of the same stories and authors.
Many Mansions story by Gene Wolfe To the Dark Tower Came story by Gene Wolfe Lollipop & the Tar Baby/8 Worlds novelette by John Varley State of Grace story by Kate Wilhelm The Disguise novella by Kim Stanley Robinson Tomus story by Stephen Robinett Night Shift story by Kevin O'Donnell Jr Fall of Pebble-Stones story by R.A. Lafferty Going Down story by Eleanor Arnason Beings of Game P-U story by Phillip Teich Vamp novelette by Mike Conner Under Jupiter novelette by Michael W. McClintock The Veil Over the River novelette by Felix C. Gotschalk Arcs & Secants essay by Damon Knight The Memory Machine essay by Damon Knight They Say essay by Damon Knight
The Ugly Little Boy, 1958 novelette-Isaac Asimov (aka Lastborn) The Man Who Sold the Moon, 1950 novella-Robert A. Heinlein The Saliva Tree, 1965 novella-Brian W. Aldiss The Marching Morons, 1951 novelette-C.M. Kornbluth Fiddler's Green, 1967 novella-Richard McKenna
The Millennium is here. No more wars, no more gang killings, no more drunken accidents. Because you have to be good, when there's an Analogue in your brain! You're a sheep, in a world of sheep...yes, the world is perfect, until a wolf comes along - the man without an Analogue, the enemy, the man outside the law. then what are you going to do, sheep - run, or turn wolf?
This volume is an anthology of science fiction short stories. It collects eighteen tales by various authors originally published in the 1930s, exemplifying American magazine science fiction of that decade, together with a foreword and three essays on the period by the editor, and a bibliography. The stories were originally published in premier science fiction magazines of the time and this work reproduces period illustrations that originally accompanied the stories.
