Science Fiction Handbook, Revised

Is an adaptation of

Canonical title

Science Fiction Handbook, Revised

Original publication date

1975

People/Characters

Forrest J. Ackerman; Hans Christian Andersen; Victor Appleton; Lucius Apulius; Ludovico Ariosto; Aristophanes (show all 211); King Arthur; Isaac Asimov; Francis Bacon; Edwin F. Baird; J. G. Ballard; Charles Baudelaire; L. Frank Baum; William Beckford; Eric Temple Bell; Edward Bellamy; Cyrano de Bergerac; Alfred Bester; Ambrose Bierce; Otto Binder; Johnny Black; Algernon Blackwood; Helena Petrovna Blavatsky; James Blish; Robert Bloch; Viktor Bolkhovitinov; Leigh Brackett; Ray Bradbury; Lord Bulwer-Lytton; John Bunyan; Arthur J. Burkes; Edgar Rice Burroughs; Ellis Parker Butler; Samuel Butler; James Branch Cabell; Tommaso Campanella; John W. Campbell; Karel Čapek; Lewis Carroll; John Carter; Lin Carter; Miguel de Cervantes; Robert W. Chambers; A. Bertram Chandler; Charlemagne; Arthur C. Clarke; Hal Clement (pseudonym of Harry C. Stubbs); Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Conan; Alphonse Lewis Constant; William Wallace Cook; Ray Cummings; Catherine C. de Camp; L. Sprague de Camp; Daniel Defoe; Samuel R. Delany; Judy-Lynn del Rey; Lester del Rey; August Derleth; Bernard DeVoto; Charles Dickens; Dietrich of Bern; Myrtle Douglas (Morojo); Arthur Conan Doyle; Dracula; Alexandre Dumas; Lord Dunsany; Patrick Dutton; E. R. Eddison; Harlan Ellison; Ralph Milne Farley (pseudonym of Roger Sherman Hoar); Philip José Farmer; John Russell Fearn; Antoine Galland; Geoffrey of Monmouth; Hugo Gernsback; Allen Glasser; Francis Godwin; Jules de Grandin; Robert Graves; Sonia Haft Greene; Jakob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm; H. Rider Haggard; Edmond Hamilton; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Robert A. Heinlein; Heliodorus; Ernest Hemingway; J.C. Henneberger; O. Henry; Ludwig, Baron von Holberg; Homer; Anthony Hope; Robert E. Howard; L. Ron Hubbard; Aldous Huxley; Cutcliffe Hyne; The Inklings; Henry James; William F. Jenkins; Samuel Johnson; Raymond F. Jones; James Joyce; The Kalem Club; David H. Keller; Johannes Kepler; Rudyard Kipling; Cyril M. Kornbluth; Henry Kuttner; Sheridan Le Fanu; Fritz Leiber; Murray Leinster (pseudonym of William F. Jenkins); C. S. Lewis; Sinclair Lewis; Willy Ley; Jack London; Frank Belknap Long; Loukianos (Lucian); H. P. Lovecraft; John Livingstone Lowes; George Macdonald; Arthur Machen; Dorothy McIlwraith; Robert Madle; David Mason; Charles Maturin; W. Somerset Maugham; Guy de Maupassant; Herman Melville; H. L. Mencken; Merlin; A. Merritt; P. Schuyler Miller; Samuel Mines; Michael Moorcock; C. L. Moore; Thomas More; William Morris; Captain Mors; Sam Moskowitz; Duncan H. Munro; Björn Nyberg; Fitz-James O'Brien; Raymond A. Palmer; Robert Paltock; David M. Parry; Alexander M. Phillips; Plato; Edgar Allan Poe; Frederik Pohl; Fletcher Pratt; Protagoras; Seabury Quinn; Ann Radcliffe; Milton A. Rothman; Victor Rousseau; Eric Frank Russell; Margaret St. Clair; Nathan Schachner; Joseph Schuster; Julius Schwartz; Walter Scott; William Scott-Elliot; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; M. P. Shiel; Wilmar Shiras; Jerome Siegel; Clifford D. Simak; Sinbad the Sailor; Clark Ashton Smith; E. E. Smith; George O. Smith; Thorne Smith; Socrates; David R. Sparks; Edmund Spenser; W. Olaf Stapledon; James Stephens; Bram Stoker; Theodore Sturgeon; John S. Sumner; Jonathan Swift; Tom Swift; Will Sykora; John Taine (pseudonym of Eric Temple Bell); James Taurasi; William Tenn (pseudonym of Philip Klass); J. R. R. Tolkien; Oswald Train; F. Orlin Tremaine; Julius Unger; Jack Vance; A. E. van Vogt; Jules Verne; Virgil; Voltaire; Horace Walpole; Donald Wandrei; Mort Weisinger; Orson Welles; Manly Wade Wellman; H. G. Wells; Charles Williams; Robert Moore Williams; Jack Williamson; Farnsworth Wright; S. Fowler Wright; Philip Wylie; Vassiliy Zakharchenko; Roger Zelazny

Dedication

To George H. Scithers, without whose consummate skill at slave-driving, this book would never have gone to press when it did.

First words

L. Sprague de Camp's original Science-Fiction Handbook, published in 1953 and long out of print, has been favorably remembered by a whole generation of science-fiction readers and aspiring writers.

Last words

(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Most of all, imaginative fiction should be a window through which the reader can view the wonders of the world today, the glories of the past, and the promise of the future.

Blurbers

del Rey, Lester; Anderson, Poul

Disambiguation notice

This is the revised edition of "Science Fiction Handbook" first published in 1975. It has slightly different contents than the original 1953 work; some content is excised, other new content is added, so should not be combined... (show all) with it.