In addition to his distinguished career as a professor of English,
James Gunn has also been a prolific writer whose body of work
includes several novels and critical analyses of science fiction.
In the mid-1980s, Easton Press began publishing a series of
leather-bound collector editions called Masterpieces of Science
Fiction, and Masterpieces of Fantasy, which featured some of the
most important works in these genres. Gunn was commissioned to
write introductions to these works, which allowed him to pay
tribute to many authors who inspired and influenced him. In
Paratexts: Introductions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, Gunn has
collected the most significant essays produced for the Easton
series, along with prefaces the author wrote for reprints of his
own novels. Cited here are some of the most significant authors and
works of 19th and 20th century science fiction and fantasy,
including H.G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau, Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle's The Lost World, George Orwell's 1984, Robert A. Heinlein's
Stranger in a Strange Land, C. S.Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet,
Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, Orson Scott Card's Speaker
for the Dead, David Brin's The Postman, Philip K. Dick's Do
Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Universe, Stephen King's The Dead Zone, Arthur C.
Clarke's Childhood's End, Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of
Avalon, Anne McCaffrey's Dragon's Eye, Roger Zelazny's Nine Princes
in Amber, Kim Stanley Robinson's Blue Mars, Peter Beagle's The Last
Unicorn, John Crowley's Little, Big, and J. R. R. Tolkien's The
Lord of the Rings. Drawing upon Gunn's lifetime of work in the
field, these introductions include analyses of the individual works
and the fields in which they were written. Gunn also briefly
discusses each novel's significance in the science fiction canon.
Collected here for the first time, these prefaces and introductions
provide readers with insight into more than seventy novels, making
Paratexts a must read for science fiction and fantasy aficionados.
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