Berkeley-based Rickman has written two previous volumes for Limelight Editions, is author of three books on Philip K. Dick, and contributes regularly to industry periodicals. He presents an edited collection of 41 essays written between 1907 and 2004, covering some of the landmarks of the genre and its perennial issues, with a series of fresh looks at its canon of important works and their relationship to the time and place in which they were made. Among the many authors represented are George Mľir̈, H. G. Wells, Luis Buųel, Jorge Luis Borges, Arthur C. Clarke, Anthony Burgess, Joseph Campbell, Pauline Kael, George F. Will, Robin Wood, and Susan Sontag. No subject index. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
