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'''''Survey of Science Fiction Literature'''''. 5 vols. Frank N. Magill, ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1979. 

Contains plot summaries, analyses, and brief critiques of a wide variety of works ranging in quality and relevance from E. M. Forster's "Machine Stops" to D. F. Jones's ''Colossus'', including I. Asimov's ''Caves of Steel'' and ''Naked Sun'', R. Bradbury's stories coll. in ''Illustrated Man'' and ''Martian Chronicles'', A. C. Clarke's ''City and the Stars'' and ''2001'', S. R. Delany's ''Nova'', R. A. Heinlein's ''The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress'' and ''Starship Troopers'', S. Lem's ''Invincible'' and ''Cyberiad'', F. Pohl's ''Gateway'' and ''Man Plus'', F. Saberhagen's berserker stories, K. Vonnegut's ''Player Piano, Sirens of Titan'', and ''Slaughterhouse-Five'', H. G. Wells's eutopian and dystopian fiction, B. Wolfe's ''Limbo'', Jack Williamson's Humanoids stories, and other works useful for the study of the human/machine interface in SF. 


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