Through stranger eyes : reviews, introductions, tributes & iconoclastic essays /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Brin, David
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ann Arbor, MI : Nimble Books, 2008.
Edition:	U.S. and Western Hemisphere ed.
Subjects:	Brin, David. Criticism. Books > Reviews.

Table of Contents:

Dreading tomorrow: exploring our nightmares through literature. George Orwell and the self-preventing prophecy
The dream of Scipio, by Iain Pears
The lord of the rings: J.R.R. Tolkien vs the modern age
The sheep look up, by John Brunner
Alas Babylon, by Pat Frank
Tomorrow gets worse: cinematic "sci-fi" and the betrayal of confidence. The dark side: Star wars, mythology and ingratitude
The matrix: tomorrow may be different
The dour choice: authors who complain. The separation, by Christopher Priest
The penal colony, by Richard Herley
Daring to look higher: authors who strive. Stand on Zanzibar, by John Brunner
Lord of light, by Roger Zelazny
Journey to the centre of the earth, by Jules Verne
The real world: notions of progress, science, and danger in nonfiction. The progress paradox, by Gregg Easterbrook
Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed, by Jared Diamond
River of shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the technological wild west, by Rebecca Solnit
The pleasure of finding things out, by Richard P. Feynman
Time travel in Einstein's universe, by J. Richard Gott
The fifth essence, by Lawrence Krauss
Fortune or failure: missed opportunities and chance discoveries, by Alexander Kohn
The art of fiction, by Ayn Rand
Reviews of memorable tales. Beyond thirty, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Guilty pleasures can be proud: or why Buffy goes
Godspeed (or "Goodbye warp drive", by Charles Sheffield
Rocket boys, by Homer H. Hickam, Jr.
Ground zero, by Fred Gambino
Paradise, purgatory & inferno, by Mike Resnick
When heaven fell, by William Barton
Biographical tributes. Jack Williamson, Poul Anderson, Harry Harrison, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford
Micro tributes: Isaac Asimov, Jim Burns, Fred Gambino, Arthur C. Clarke
Through stranger eyes: the odd profession of storytelling. How I do it-- and advice to new writers
The uplift universe
David Brin literary bibliography (distilled).