Science Fiction A to Z
Editors | Isaac Asimov Martin H. Greenberg |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Science fiction |
Published | 1982 (Houghton Mifflin) |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | xvii, 651 pp. |
ISBN | 0-395-31285-X |
Science Fiction A to Z: A Dictionary of the Great S.F. Themes is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and . It was first published in hardcover by Houghton Mifflin in August 1982.[1]
The book collects fifty novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction by Asimov. The book is organized as a "Glossary of Terms Frequently Used in Science Fiction Stories," terms "science fictionish rather than scientific" that are "not generally found in ordinary reference books [or] scientific dictionaries. " The stories are arranged alphabetically by the terms they stories utilize or illustrate, and preceded by definitions of those terms.
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- ^ Science Fiction A to Z title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Categories:
- 1982 short story collections
- Science fiction anthologies
- Isaac Asimov anthologies
- Martin H. Greenberg anthologies