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A Cosmos of Many Mansions: Varieties of Science Fiction Kindle Edition
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Science fiction isn't just one thing. The field is a cosmos of many mansions, with something to please almost everyone. Your guide to the many varieties of sf is Don Sakers: sf writer, retired Librarian, book reviewer for Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine.
Based on the first five years of his popular review column, this volume examines & explains dozens of types of science fiction along with hundreds of reviews.
Whether you're exploring the state of the field or looking for just the right sf book for you, A Cosmos of Many Mansions is the guidebook you need. Readers who enjoyed Jo Walton's What Makes This Book So Great? will surely find much to like.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateMarch 25, 2017
- File size4209 KB
Product details
- ASIN : B06XV65NCF
- Publisher : Speed-of-C Productions (March 25, 2017)
- Publication date : March 25, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 4209 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 533 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 193475420X
- Best Sellers Rank: #407,159 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the author

Don Sakers was launched the same month as Sputnik One, so it was perhaps inevitable that he should become a science fiction writer. A Navy brat by birth, he spent his childhood in such far-off lands as Japan, Scotland, Hawaii, and California. In California, rather like a latter-day Mowgli, he was raised by dogs.
As a writer and editor, he has explored the thoughts of sapient trees (The Leaves of October, Baen 1988), brought ghosts to life (Carmen Miranda's Ghost is Haunting Space Station Three, Baen 1989), and beaten the "Cold Equations" scenario ("The Cold Solution," Analog 7/91, voted best short story of the year.)
In 2009, Don took up the position of book reviewer for Analog Science Fiction & Fact, where he writes the "Reference Library" column in every issue.
In his day job, Don works for the Anne Arundel County Public Library. His actual job title -- "Library Associate" -- makes it sound like he gives lots of money to the Library, but in fact it's the other way around.
Don lives at Meerkat Meade in suburban Baltimore with his spouse, costumer Thomas Atkinson.
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