Now in paperback! Cloth edition previously published in 1979. Volume 3, From Heinlein to Here, covers the period from 1940 to 1975, beginning in the Golden Age of Science Fiction and ending at a time when SF book publication was just beginning to explode and SF films (2001: A Space Odyssey; Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Wars, E.T.) would soon dominate box offices.

Chapter 1 Beyond These Horizons Chapter 2 "All You Zombies" Chapter 3 The Clear, Cool Voice of Asimov Chapter 4 Reason Chapter 5 The Simak Reservation Chapter 6 Desertion Chapter 7 Mimsy Were the Kuttners Chapter 8 Mimsy Were the Borogoves Chapter 9 The Bradbury Chronicles Chapter 10 The Million-Year Picnic Chapter 11 More Than SF Chapter 12 Thunder and Roses Chapter 13 Ecce Femina Chapter 14 That Only a Mother Chapter 15 A Matter of Time Chapter 16 Brooklyn Project Chapter 17 The Social Side Chapter 18 Coming Attraction Chapter 19 The Expanding Universe Chapter 20 The Sentinel Chapter 21 Farmerworld Chapter 22 Sail On! Sail On! Chapter 23 The Science in Science Fiction Chapter 24 Critical Factor Chapter 25 Why Not Literature? Chapter 26 Fondly Fahrenheit Chapter 27 A Touch of Stone Chapter 28 The Cold Equations Chapter 29 The Ballads of Lost C. Smith Chapter 30 The Game of Rat and Dragon Chapter 31 Scalpel of Wit Chapter 32 Pilgrimage to Earth Chapter 33 The British Are Coming! Chapter 34 Who Can Replace a Man? Chapter 35 The Sirens of Mainstream Chapter 36 Harrison Bergeron Chapter 37 That Old-Time Religion Chapter 38 The Streets of Ashkelon Chapter 39 Terminal Fiction Chapter 40 The Terminal Beach Chapter 41 Again and Again Chapter 42 Dolphin's Way Chapter 43 The Future as Metaphor Chapter 44 Slow Tuesday Night Chapter 45 Through a Glass Darkly Chapter 46 Day Million Chapter 47 Will Reality Please Raise Its Hand? Chapter 48 We Can Remember It for You Wholesale Chapter 49 The New Thing Chapter 50 I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream Chapter 51 Aye, and Delany Chapter 52 Aye, and Gomorrah Chapter 53 The New Scientific Revolution Chapter 54 The Jigsaw Man Chapter 55 Hard Science and Soft People Chapter 56 Kyrie Chapter 57 Out of the Knight Chapter 58 Masks Chapter 59 Surviving the Future Chapter 60 From Stand on Zanzibar Chapter 61 The Big Protest Chapter 62 The Big Flash Chapter 63 The Origin and Development of Science Fiction Writers Chapter 64 Sundance Chapter 65 Science Fiction as Simile Chapter 66 From The Left Hand of Darkness Chapter 67 Issues and Controversies Chapter 68 When It Changed Chapter 69 The Science Fiction Art Story Chapter 70 The Engine at Heartspring's Center Chapter 71 The Uncertain Future Chapter 72 Tricentennial

James Gunn is Emeritus Professor of English at University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.