American Science Fiction: Five Classic Novels 1956-58

Long unnoticed or dismissed by the literary establishment, these visionary “outsider” novels grappled in fresh ways with a world in rapid transformation and have gradually been recognized as American classics that opened new imaginative territory in American writing. 

This second volume contains: 

Robert Heinlein / Double Star 

Alfred Bester / The Stars My Destination 

James Blish / A Case of Conscience 

Algis Budrys / Who? 

Fritz Leiber / The Big Time 

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