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The Alien Condition
''The Alien Condition'' is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by American writer Stephen Goldin and published in 1973 by Ballantine Books.The Alien Condition' Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB). Retrieved on June 11, 2013 Stories *"Lament of the Keeku Bird" by Kathleen Sky *"Wings" by Vonda N. McIntyre *"The Empire of T'ang Lang" by Alan Dean Foster *"A Way Out" by Miriam Allen deFord *"Gee, Isn't He the Cutest Little Thing?" by Arthur Byron Cover *"Deaf Listener" by Rachel Cosgrove Payes *"Nor Iron Bars a Cage" by C.F. Hensel and Stephen Goldin *"Routine Patrol Activity" by Thomas Pickens *"Call from Kerlyana" by Alice Laurance and William K. Carlson *"The Safety Engineer" by William E. Cochrane, writing as S. Kye Boult *"Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death" by James Tiptree Jr. *"The Latest from Sigma Corvi" by Edward Wellen References 1973 anthologies Science fiction anthologies Ballantine Books books {{1970s-sf-story-collection-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Stories
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest types of literature and has existed in the form of legends, mythic tales, folk tales, fairy tales, tall tales, fables and anecdotes in various ancient communities around the world. The modern short story developed in the early 19th century. Definition The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot, resonance, and other dynamic components as in a novel, but typically to a lesser degree. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel or novella/short novel, authors generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques. The short story is sometimes referred to as a genre. Determining what exactly defines a short story has been recurrently problematic. A classic definition of a short story i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Goldin
Stephen Charles Goldin (born February 28, 1947) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Biography Goldin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A graduate of UCLA with a bachelor's degree in Astronomy, he worked for the U.S. Navy as a civilian space scientist before becoming a full-time writer. He has also worked as a writer and editor for the '' San Francisco Ball'', designed and written manuals for a number of computer games, and co-taught a writing class at the California State University at Northridge. A member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), he has served as editor of its ''SFWA Bulletin'' and held the position of the association's western regional director. Goldin has been married twice, first to Kathleen Sky (from 1972 to 1982) and later to Mary Mason (from 1987 to present). He has collaborated with both in his fiction. Goldin lives in California. Goldin's "The Last Ghost" was a 1972 nominee for the Nebula Award for best short s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballantine Books
Ballantine Books is a major book publisher located in the United States, founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine with his wife, Betty Ballantine. It was acquired by Random House in 1973, which in turn was acquired by Bertelsmann in 1998 and remains part of that company today. Ballantine's original logo was a pair of mirrored letter Bs back to back, while its current logo is two Bs stacked to form an elaborate gate. The firm's early editors were Stanley Kauffmann and Bernard Shir-Cliff. History Following Fawcett Publications' controversial 1950 introduction of Gold Medal paperback originals rather than reprints, Lion Books, Avon and Ace also decided to publish originals. In 1952, Ian Ballantine, a founder of Bantam Books, announced that he would "offer trade publishers a plan for simultaneous publishing of original titles in two editions, a hardcover 'regular' edition for bookstore sale, and a paper-cover, 'newsstand' size, low-priced edition for mass market sale." When the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Speculative Fiction Database
The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) is a database of bibliographic information on genres considered speculative fiction, including science fiction and related genres such as fantasy, alternate history, and horror fiction. The ISFDB is a volunteer effort, with the database being open for moderated editing and user contributions, and a wiki that allows the database editors to coordinate with each other. the site had catalogued 2,002,324 story titles from 232,816 authors. The code for the site has been used in books and tutorials as examples of database schema and organizing content. The ISFDB database and code are available under Creative Commons licensing. The site won the Wooden Rocket Award in the Best Directory Site category in 2005. Purpose The ISFDB database indexes speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror, and alternate history) authors, novels, short fiction, essays, publishers, awards, and magazines in print, electronic, and audio formats. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Sky
Kathleen Sky (born Kathleen McKinney, August 5, 1943) is the pen name of Kathleen McKinney Goldin, an American science fiction and fantasy author. Her pen name is her former married name from her marriage to first husband Karl Sky. From 1972 to 1982 she was married to fellow author and collaborator Stephen Goldin. Most of her fiction is romantic in nature. Her books include ''Vulcan!'' and '' Death's Angel'', two of the earliest original novels based on the 1960s ''Star Trek'' TV series. Bibliography ''Star Trek'' novels * '''' reissued as ''Star Trek Adventures 11: Vulcan!'' ( |
Vonda N
Vonda is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Vonda Kay Van Dyke, crowned the 1965 Miss America on September 13, 1964 * Vonda N. McIntyre (1948–2019), American science fiction author *Vonda Phelps, American child stage actress and dancer in the 1920s *Vonda Shepard (born 1963), American pop/rock singer *Vonda Ward Vonda is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Vonda Kay Van Dyke, crowned the 1965 Miss America on September 13, 1964 * Vonda N. McIntyre (1948–2019), American science fiction author * Vonda Phelps, American child stage actres ... (born 1973), American female boxer and NCAA basketball player See also * Vonda, Saskatchewan, located on Highway 27, a half-hour drive north east of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan {{given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Dean Foster
Alan Dean Foster (born November 18, 1946) is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction. He has written several book series, more than 20 standalone novels, and many novelizations of film scripts. Career ''Star Wars'' Foster was the ghostwriter of the original novelization of ''Star Wars'', which was credited solely to George Lucas. When asked if it was difficult for him to see Lucas get all the credit for ''Star Wars'', Foster said, "Not at all. It was George's story idea. I was merely expanding upon it. Not having my name on the cover didn't bother me in the least. It would be akin to a contractor demanding to have his name on a Frank Lloyd Wright house." Foster also wrote the follow-up novel ''Splinter of the Mind's Eye'' (1978), written with the intention of being adapted as a low-budget sequel to ''Star Wars'' if the film was unsuccessful. However, ''Star Wars'' was a blockbusting success, and ''The Empire Strikes Back'' (1980) would be developed instead. Foster's s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miriam Allen DeFord
Miriam Allen deFord (August 21, 1888 – February 22, 1975) was an American writer best known for her mysteries and science fiction. During the 1920s, she wrote for a number of left-wing magazines including ''The Masses'', '' The Liberator'', and the '' Federated Press Bulletin''. Her short story, ''A Death in the Family'', appeared on the second season, episode #2, segment one, of ''Night Gallery''. Biography Born in Philadelphia, deFord studied at Wellesley College and Temple University. She later studied at the University of Pennsylvania.Eric Leif Davin''Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965'' Lexington Books, Lanham, MD (2006); , pp. 130, 378-79. She worked as a newspaper reporter for a time. She later described herself as a "born feminist" and was active in the Women's suffrage movement before 1920. A campaigner and disseminator of birth control information to women, she was a member of the Socialist Party of America from 1919 to 192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Byron Cover
Arthur Byron Cover (born January 14, 1950, in Grundy, Virginia) is an American science fiction author. Cover attended the Clarion Writer's SF Workshop in New Orleans in 1971, and made his first professional short-story sale to Harlan Ellison's ''The Last Dangerous Visions''. Cover's short stories have appeared in ''Infinity Five'', ''Alternities'', ''The Alien Condition'', ''Weird Heroes'' #6, ''The Year's Best Horror'' #4 and #5, ''Wild Cards #5: Down & Dirty'', and '' Pulphouse''. He has also written several comic books, including two issues of '' Daredevil'' (one of them with Ellison), and ''Space Clusters'', a graphic novel from DC Comics illustrated by Alex Niño — plus several animation scripts, and reviews and articles for such august publications as ''The New York Review of Science Fiction''. Cover's first novel, ''Autumn Angels'', was the second of Harlan Ellison's Discovery Series of new authors for Pyramid Books, and was nominated for a Nebula Award. The novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Cosgrove Payes
Rachel Ruth Cosgrove Payes, also known as E.L. Arch and Joanne Kaye (11 December 1922, Westernport, Maryland – 10 October 1998, Brick Township, New Jersey) was an American genre novelist, and author of books on the Land of Oz. Biography Born in Maryland to mine foreman Jacob A. Cosgrove and teacher Martha (née Brake), Cosgrove was educated at West Virginia Wesleyan College (B.S. 1943). Trained as a research biologist, she worked as a medical technologist at various hospitals. She married Norman Morris Payes in 1954; they had a son and daughter.Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, vol. 2, R. Reginald, 1979, pg 800 Her first book, ''The Hidden Valley of Oz'', was published by Reilly & Lee in 1951. Her second, ''The Wicked Witch of Oz'' (1954) was denied publication on the grounds that the Oz books were not selling. The book was published by The International Wizard of Oz Club in 1993. She had a tendency to dismiss adult Oz fans and insist that Oz books are "for kids!", a vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
