American science fiction : four classic novels, 1960-1966

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American science fiction : four classic novels, 1960-1966 / Gary K. Wolfe, editor.

Wolfe, Gary K., 1946- (editor.). Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 High crusade. Container of (work): (Added Author). Simak, Clifford D., 1904-1988 Way station. Container of (work): (Added Author). Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon. Container of (work): (Added Author). Zelazny, Roger. This immortal. Container of (work): (Added Author).

Summary:

"This volume, the first of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, opens with Poul Anderson's immensely popular The High Crusade, in which aliens planning to conquer Earth land in Lincolnshire during the Hundred Years' War. In Clifford Simak's Hugo Award-winning Way Station, Enoch Wallace is a spry 124-year-old Civil War veteran whose lifelong job monitoring the intergalactic pit stop inside his home is largely uneventful--until a CIA agent shows up and Cold War hostilities threaten the peaceful harmony of the Galactic confederation. Daniel Keyes's beloved Flowers for Algernon, winner of the Nebula Award and adapted as the Academy Award-winning movie Charly, is told through the journal entries of Charlie Gordon, a young man with severe learning disabilities who is the test subject for surgery to improve his intelligence. And in the postapocalyptic earthscape of Roger Zelazny's Hugo Award-winning . . . And Call Me Conrad (also published as This Immortal) Conrad Nomikos reluctantly accepts the responsibility of showing the planet to the governing extraterrestrials' representative and protecting him from rebellious remnants of the human race. Using early manuscripts and original setting copy, this Library of America volume restores the novel to a version that most closely approximates Zelazny's original text."--Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781598535013
ISBN: 1598535013
Physical Description: xx, 718 pages ; 21 cm.
Publisher: New York, NY : The Library of America, [2019]
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 705-718).
Formatted Contents Note:: The high crusade / Poul Anderson -- Way station / Clifford D. Simak -- Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes -- ...And call me Conrad (This immortal) / Roger Zelazny.