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Essays by Fred Lerner "A Master of Our Art": Rudyard Kipling Considered as a Science Fiction Writer Rudyard
Kipling wrote of new inventions and future wars, and warned of the
social consequences of technological change. And he exerted an immense
influence on modern science fiction.
The Maid of Orleans It
was in A Book of Heroes
that I first learned the story of Joan of Arc. But there's more to that
story than can be found in a children's book.
Libraries and Their Impact on Fantasy More
than other kinds of fiction, fantasy depends upon a continuity with
earlier literature. Fantasy writers get more than literary sustenance
from libraries, The viability of writing fantasy professionally depends
upon libraries.
Toward a Definition of Science Fiction: A Reply to James Gunn There
simply is no such thing as the
definition of science fiction. How one defines it depends on
what
one intends to do with it. The reader, the writer, the editor,
the
publisher, the bibliographer, the historian, the teacher, the
librarian, the critic -- each has his own concerns, and those concerns
necessarily shape, not only his working definition of science fiction,
but also his entire approach to the question of defining SF.
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