A few pages into The Listeners I thought I was settling down for a pleasantly boring experience of 1970's science fiction. But halfway through the book, my respect for what Gunn was attempting -- and accomplishing -- began to grow. He writes with subdued passion about the commitment of scientists...
The age-old question about alien existence and human contact is explored in a new way in this collection of six novellas, previously anthologized in "Analog" magazine. When disillusioned aerospace engineer Adrian Mast buys a book at a remainder sale, the last things he expects to find in its appe...
Harvard's George C. Simpson called the late Isaac Asimov "one of our natural wonders and national resources," for his hundreds of nonfiction works on science, mathematics, history, and literature. Asimov, however, is best known as a science fiction writer. This second edition, "Isaac Asimov: The ...