American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1960-1966 (LOA #321) (Library of America)

✍ Scribed by Poul Anderson; Clifford D. Simak; Daniel Keyes; Roger Zelazny; Gary K. Wolfe

• Book ID: 100276110
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 447 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781598536362

✦ Synopsis

In a deluxe collector's edition hardcover, four classic novels from science fiction's most transformative decade, including the landmark Flowers for Algernon
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...