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\"\"<\/a>\"\"I received my copy of Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction<\/a>\"\"<\/em> yesterday. I really do have a sense of wonder as I ponder what it has managed to do, bringing together actual science fiction stories and critical essays on a range of topics and issues from a range of perspectives, in a massive volume that is almost a thousand pages in length, with really small print and really narrow margins in a significantly oversized book. What the editor, Leigh Grossman, has managed to include in a single volume really is impressive.<\/p>\n

My own contribution is an essay on religion and science fiction. There are too many other essays to even offer a representative list. But fortunately, I don\u2019t have to. There is a web site for the book<\/a>, which includes the table of contents<\/a> and samples. The latter includes the appendices, among which are the list of stories, essays and poems in the volume<\/a>.\u00a0If you click through, you will see that they cover major topics, themes, trends, the sci-fi of particular countries and eras, and even advice on writing<\/em> sci-fi. And this is alongside the majority of the book, which is actual science fiction stories, each of which is introduced with a short biography about the author.<\/p>\n

There are also quotes about the volume on the web site<\/a>, the best of which comes from sci-fi author Kit Reed:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026so big that if you dropped it, it would kill your dog.\u201d \u2014Kit Reed<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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