Survey of Science Fiction Literature

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.