- Publication: Of Worlds Beyond: The Science of Science Fiction WritingPublication Record # 1021229
- Author: Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
- Date: 1970-04-00
- ISBN: 0-911682-05-8 [978-0-911682-05-2]
- Publisher: Advent Publishers
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Price: $1.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
- Pages: 104
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Format: tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
- Type: NONFICTION
- Cover: Of Worlds Beyond: The Science of Science-Fiction Writing (1964) • by Jon Stopa [as by John Stopa]
- Webpages: archive.org
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Notes: Info from Archive.org copy. ISBN derived from SBN on copyright page. "SECOND EDITION, September 1964", "SECOND PRINTING, April 1970" on copyright page. Front flap: "The Advent edition was received so well that in 1970 this second printing became necessary".
Nonfiction Title:
Of Worlds Beyond: The Science of Science Fiction Writing • (1964) • nonfiction by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach (variant of Of Worlds Beyond: The Science of Science-Fiction Writing 1947)
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- 9 • Introduction (Of Worlds Beyond) • (1947) • essay by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
- 11 • On the Writing of Speculative Fiction • (1947) • essay by Robert A. Heinlein
- 21 • Writing a Science Novel • (1947) • essay by John Taine
- 37 • The Logic of Fantasy • (1947) • essay by Jack Williamson
- 51 • Complication in the Science Fiction Story • (1947) • essay by A. E. van Vogt
- 67 • Humor in Science Fiction • (1947) • essay by L. Sprague de Camp
- 77 • The Epic of Space • (1947) • essay by Edward E. Smith
- 89 • The Science of Science Fiction Writing • (1947) • essay by John W. Campbell, Jr.