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Loading... Breakfast in the Ruins (2007)by Barry N. Malzberg
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The first half of the book is Engines of the Night, one of the great works of sf criticism, a bitter and vehement indictment of science fiction that unfortunately had no influence at all on the field. ( ) Starts fairly well, but then the book degenerates to bitter rants about how horrible it is to write science fiction, how it causes divorces for people writing it, how writing science fiction degenerates writers health and causes uncalculated amounts of stress and sorrow, how stupid are the readers who like just media scifi, and don’t understand just _how_ hard it is to be science fiction author and don’t really understand the field at all and how horrible the editors in the field tend to commonly be and how they only think about money, and how good science fiction was written only in fifties, or in only in the seventies if the essay is written in eighties and all this is written in horribly long and convoluted sentences which are hard to read and understand. Sample Chapters: http://webscriptions.net/chapters/1416521178/1416521178.htm no reviews | add a review
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Barry N. Malzberg reflects back over four decades of writing science fiction, giving an insiderAs view of the field during that time which few can match, both for its authority and for the sharp and witty way he describes the highs and lows of one science fiction writerAs career. He also writes vivid profiles of writers and editors, ranging from the titans who transformed the field, such as John W. Campbell, to once popular writers who are now all but forgotten, such as Hugo Award-winner Mark Clifton. AIf there is any particular cachet to my perspective, A he writes, Ait comes because my career is, perhaps more than some, metaphoric.A The original, shorter version of the book was widely praised, as by the San Francisco Chronicle: AContains literary criticism ranging over the whole history of the field. . . . this is a mordant, brilliant book, A and by The Washington Post Book World: AMalzberg makes persuasively clear that the best of science fiction should be valued as literature and nothing else.A Breakfast in the Ruins is an indispensable book for every science fiction reader. No library descriptions found. |
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