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Before Robert Silverberg won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards and became Grand Master of science fiction, he was a young man learning the art and craft of writing the genre. In Science Fiction: 101, Silverberg reveals the roots of modern science fiction with thought-provoking essays about some of the field's most groundbreaking stories--included in this volume--which inspired him and taught him to write. These insightful analyses, along with the skills and strategies Silverberg developed to build his successful career, make this an indispensable volume for readers interested in science fiction history.

Contents:

• ix - Introduction (Science Fiction: 101) - (2001) - essay by Greg Bear
• xi - Foreword (Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder) - [Silverberg's Essays: Others' Work] - (1987) - essay by Robert Silverberg
• 1 - Introduction: The Making of a Science-Fiction Writer - [Silverberg's Essays: Others' Work] - (1987) - essay by Robert Silverberg
• 47 - Four in One - (1953) - novelette by Damon Knight
• 81 - Four in One: Complications, with Elegance - (1987) - essay by Robert Silverberg
• 89 - Fondly Fahrenheit - (1954) - novelette by Alfred Bester
• 112 - Fondly Fahrenheit: Who Am I, Which Are You? - (1987) - essay by Robert Silverberg
• 121 - No Woman Born - (1944) - novella by C. L. Moore
• 172 - No Woman Born: Flowing from Ring to Ring - (1987) - essay by Robert Silverberg
• 187 - Home Is the Hunter - (1953) - short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
• 199 - Home Is the Hunter: The Triumph of Honest Roger Bellamy - (1987) - essay by Robert Silverberg
• 209 - The Monsters - (1953) - short story by Robert Sheckley
• 220 - The Monsters: Don't Forget to Kill Your Wife - (1987) - essay by Robert Silverberg
• 229 - Common Time - (1953) - short story by James Blish
• 253 - Common Time: With All of Love - (1987) - essay by Robert Silverberg
• 265 - Scanners Live in Vain - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - (1950) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• 303 - Scanners Live in Vain: Under the Wire with the Habermans - (1987) - essay by Robert Silverberg
• 313 - Hothouse - [Hothouse] - (1961) - novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
• 351 - Hothouse: The Fuzzypuzzle Odyssey - (1987) - essay by Robert Silverberg
• 359 - The New Prime - (1951) - novelette by Jack Vance
• 385 - The New Prime: Six Plots for the Price of One - (1987) - essay by Robert Silverberg
• 391 - Colony - (1953) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
• 412 - Colony: I Trusted the Rug Completely - (1987) - essay by Robert Silverberg
• 419 - The Little Black Bag - (1950) - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
• 450 - The Little Black Bag: Press Button for Triple Bypass - (1987) - essay by Robert Silverberg
• 459 - Light of Other Days - [Slow Glass] - (1966) - short story by Bob Shaw
• 469 - Light of Other Days: Beyond the Radius of Capture - (1987) - essay by Robert Silverberg
• 477 - Day Million - (1966) - short story by Frederik Pohl
• 483 - Day Million: A Boy, a Girl, a Love Story - (1987) - essay by Robert Silverberg