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Editorial Reviews
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This discusses ideas presented in the Panshins' earlier book, SF in Dimension: A Book of Explorations ( Advent, 1980. 2d ed.). The first half deals with how and why the myths of science fiction have changed their focus over the last few centuries. The second half gives a vivid portrait of the editor John W. Campbell working with his stable of writers--Asimov, DeCamp, Heinlein, and Van Vogt--to create the Golden Age of modern science fiction from 1939 to 1946. The writing is verbose and not well integrated, but the book is always interesting.
- Katherine Thorp, St. Louis Univ. Lib.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Katherine Thorp, St. Louis Univ. Lib.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"The best, the best, history of science fiction I have ever read." --Isaac Asimov
"I learned a great deal from The World Beyond the Hill." --Northrup Frye
"This is a masterful and an utterly fascinating book, of interest to anyone who ponders how we in modern society got to where we are and where we are likely to go from here. Science fiction is shown by the Panshins to be a heretofore relatively unnoticed factor in societal change -- the mythic element in a society that for three centuries has turned its back on spirit-based myth." --Willis Harman, author of Higher Creativity and Global Mind Change
"This fascinating book makes it clear that science fiction is indeed the visionary literature of our civilization, and a much needed source of vitality." --Charles T. Tart, author of Open Mind, Discriminating Mind
"A landmark of literary historiography." --L. Sprague de Camp
"The basic premises of the book are fine, the insights truly eye-opening." --Ben Bova
"Really marvelous. It is obviously the classic history of science fiction." --Colin Wilson
--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.
"I learned a great deal from The World Beyond the Hill." --Northrup Frye
"This is a masterful and an utterly fascinating book, of interest to anyone who ponders how we in modern society got to where we are and where we are likely to go from here. Science fiction is shown by the Panshins to be a heretofore relatively unnoticed factor in societal change -- the mythic element in a society that for three centuries has turned its back on spirit-based myth." --Willis Harman, author of Higher Creativity and Global Mind Change
"This fascinating book makes it clear that science fiction is indeed the visionary literature of our civilization, and a much needed source of vitality." --Charles T. Tart, author of Open Mind, Discriminating Mind
"A landmark of literary historiography." --L. Sprague de Camp
"The basic premises of the book are fine, the insights truly eye-opening." --Ben Bova
"Really marvelous. It is obviously the classic history of science fiction." --Colin Wilson
--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.
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