Donald M. Hassler

Donald M. Hassler examines the life and work of American science fiction author Hal Clement. Starmont Reader's Guide 11.

Hal Clement

Well-known critic Hassler here contributes a comprehensive survey of Asimov's major fiction, from his beginnings as a short-story writer in "The Campbell Years," through his early and juvenile novels, including a complete outline and evaluation of the author's ever-popular Robot and Foundation series. Starmont Reader's Guide 40.

Isaac Asimov

Associate Professor of Government and Director of Women's Studies Clyde Wilcox

Clyde Wilcox

As the science fiction writer Frederik Pohl observes in the lead essay, the contributors collectively find science fiction to be either implicitly or explicitly political by its very nature.

Political Science Fiction

Surveying the vast expanse of politically-charged science fiction, this book posits that the defining dilemma for these tales rests in whether identity and meaning germinate from progressive linear changes or progress, or from a continuous return to primitive realities of war, death and the competition for survival.

Donald M. Hassler

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