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A Reader's Guide To Science Fiction

by Baird Searles, Beth Meacham, Martin Last · 1979

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From A to Z (Akers and Asimov to Zebrowski and Zelazny), from the first astounding magazine to DUNE, A READER"S GUIDE TO SCIENCE FICTION is an invaluable reference work, chronicling where science fiction has been, and where you-the reader-can travel next in the most exciting literature of the cosmos.

Subject
science
Genre
science fiction
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 266 pages

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