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Breakfast in the Ruins

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Part I:
Breakfast in the Ruins: Science Fiction in the Last Millennium

Introduction to the Baen Edition

Part One
The Engines of the Night

Introduction to the 2001
Electronic Book Edition

Introduction to the
Original Edition

The Number of the Beast

L'Etat c'est moi

I Could Have Been a Contender,
Part One

Anonymity & Empire

I Don't Know How to Put It Love But I'll Surely Surely Try

Memoir from Grub Street

The Fifties

The Fifties: Recapitulation and Coda

Ah Tempora! Ah Portions! Ah Mores! Ah Outlines!

Science Fiction and the Academy:
Some Notes

At the Divining Edge

Some Notes Toward the True and the Terrible

Wrong Rabbit

John W. Campbell:
June 8,1910 to July 11, 1971

The Science Fiction of Science Fiction

I Don't Want Her You Can Have Her—

Onward and Upward with the Arts,
Part II

Tell Me Doctor If You Can That It's Not All Happening Again

The Richard Nixon John B. Mitchell Spiro Agnew Blues

Cornell George Hopley Woolrich:
December 1903 to September 1968

A Few Hard Truths for the Troops

Onward and Upward with the Arts,
Part III

Science Fiction As Picasso

Mark Clifton: 1906-1963

September 1973:
What I Did Last Summer

The Cutting Edge

Son of the True and Terrible

The All-Time, Prime-Time, Take-Me-to-Your-Leader Science Fiction Plot

Grandson of the True and the Terrible

Give Me That Old-Time Religion

SF Forever

What I Won't Do Next Summer, I Guess

Come Fool, Follify

The Engines of the Night

Con Sordino

Corridors

L'Envoi

Son of L'envoi

Grandson of L'envoi

Footnotes

Interregnum: Preface to an Essay

Rage, Pain, Alienation and Other Aspects of the Writing of Science Fiction

Afterword

Part Two Breakfast in the Ruins: Science Fiction in the Last Millenium

Part I: Meditations
Introduction to Part One: Meditations


On Engines Again

Atomic Power

Tripping with the Alchemist

Some Reflections on Freud, Fantasy & the Jewish Condition

I: Not I

On Decadence

Cliftonized

Over the Waves

Thus Our Words Unspoken

A Formal Feeling Comes

Thinking About Compulsion

The Shores of Suitability

Some Notes On the Lone Wolf
By Barry N. Malzberg

Part II
Authors And Other Culprits

Flowers for Daniel
(Daniel Keyes)

Falling from the Air
(Alice Sheldon)

Dark of the Knight
An Introduction And Epilogue
(Damon Knight)

On Fredric Brown

The Stochastic Writer
(Robert Silverberg)

The Dean of Gloucester, Virginia
(William F. Jenkins)

Inextricable Disengagement:
The War Games Of David Drake

On Isaac Asimov

The Bend at the End of the Road
(Gustav Hasford)

The Cloud Sculptor of Terminal X
(J.G. Ballard)

Presto: Con Mlizia
(Cornell Woolrich)

Repentance, Desire and Natalie Wood
(Maurice Girodias)

The Man Who Lost the Sea
(John W. Campbell)

Part III:
Ruthven Agonistes

The Passage of the Light

Afterword: The Last Millinium

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