• Publication: Inside Science Fiction: Essays on Fantastic LiteraturePublication Record # 91271
• Author: James Gunn
• Date: 1992-05-00
• ISBN: 0-89370-312-5 [978-0-89370-312-7]
• Publisher: Borgo Press
• Pub. Series: I. O. Evans Studies in the Philosophy and Criticism of Literature
• Pub. Series #: 11
• Price:
  $27.00^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 176
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NONFICTION
• Notes:

  • First Edition (hardcover variant).
  • Cover: standard series design by Highpoint Type & Graphics, green ink on pale green background.
  • A collection of previously-published and original essays on fantastic literature.
  • Contents also include Acknowledgments (p. 161); About the Author (p. 162); A James Gunn Bibliography (p. 163); and Index (p. 164-176).
  • Info from BP 300.
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 91-32976
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 24504894

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 5 • Introduction (Inside Science Fiction) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 9 • The Education of a Science Fiction Teacher • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 16 • From the Pulps to the Classroom: The Strange Journey of Science Fiction • (1981) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 30 • Science Fiction and the Mainstream • (1974) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 52 • The Gatekeepers • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 60 • Fifty Amazing, Astounding, Wonderful Years • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 67 • Teaching Science Fiction Revisited • [Editorial (Analog)] • (1974) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 73 • The Academic Viewpoint • (1978) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 79 • Science Fiction as Literature • essay by James E. Gunn (variant of Introduction (From Here to Forever) 1982) [as by James Gunn]
• 92 • The City and the Critics • (1980) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 101 • The Tinsel Screen • essay by James E. Gunn (variant of The Tinsel Screen: Science Fiction and the Movies 1980) [as by James Gunn]
• 113 • Television and "The Immortal" • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 118 • The Great Science Fiction Radio Show • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 121 • Looking Backward at 2001 • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 127 • The Uses of Space • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 134 • A Short History of the Space Program; or, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon • (1974) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 146 • Shapechangers and Fearmongers • (1978) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 150 • Science Fiction and the Future • (1978) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 154 • Science Fiction in the Nineties • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]