In a deluxe two-volume collector's edition boxed set, eight mind-bending novels from science fiction's most transformative decade, including the landmark classic Flowers for Algernon The tumultuous 1960s was a watershed decade for American science fiction. As the nation raced to the moon, acknowledged masters from the genre's golden age reached the height of their powers. As it confronted calls for civil rights and countercultural revolution, a new wave of brilliant young voices emerged, upending the genre's pulp conventions with newfound literary sophistication; female, queer, and nonwhite authors broke into the ranks of SF writers, introducing provocative new protagonists and themes. Here, in a deluxe, two-volume collector's set, editor Gary K. Wolfe gathers eight wildly inventive novels, the decade's best: Daniel Keyes' beloved
Flowers for Algernon and Poul Anderson's madcap
The High Crusade; Clifford D. Simak's Hugo Award-winning
Way Station; Roger Zelazny's post-apocalyptic
. . . And Call Me Conrad (previously published as
This Immortal); Joanna Russ'
Picnic on Paradise, a pioneering work of feminist SF, and Samuel R. Delany's proto-cyberpunk space opera
Nova; R.A. Lafferty's quirky, neglected, utterly original
Past Master; and Jack Vance's haunting
Emphyrio.
About the AuthorGary K. Wolfe is Emeritus Professor of Humanities at Roosevelt University and the author, most recently, of
Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature and Sightings: Reviews 2002-2006. He has received numerous awards for his critical writing including the British Science Fiction Association Award, the Pilgrim Award from the Science Fiction Research Association, the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, and the World Fantasy Award. He writes regular review columns for
Locus magazine and the
Chicago Tribune, and co-hosts with Jonathan Strahan the Hugo-nominated
Coode Street Podcast.