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

Publication Info. New York, NY : The Library of America, [2019]
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 Moore Stacks  PS648.S3 A5155 2019    Available  ---
Description xx, 718 pages ; 21 cm.
Series Library of America ; #321
Library of America ; 321.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 705-718).
Contents High crusade / Poul Anderson -- Way station / Clifford D. Simak -- Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes -- ...And call me Conrad (This immortal) / Roger Zelazny.
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.
Subject Human-alien encounters -- Fiction.
Human-alien encounters.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Subject Space warfare -- Fiction.
Space warfare.
Learning disabilities -- Treatment -- Fiction.
Learning disabilities -- Treatment.
Genre/Form Science fiction.
Science fiction.
Added Author Container of (work): Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001. High crusade.
Container of (work): Simak, Clifford D., 1904-1988. Way station.
Container of (work): Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon.
Container of (work): Zelazny, Roger. This immortal.
Wolfe, Gary K., 1946- editor.
ISBN 1598535013 (hardcover)
9781598535013 (hardcover)