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Index to Isaac Asimov on Science Fiction, Avon The Thunder Child : Index To Isaac Asimov on Science Fiction , Avon, 1981 This page presents the 55 essay titles, and then a complete index of this book – the paperback edition. This index is presented as a service for reference and review and is not intended to violate copyright. Essay Titles : I. Science Fiction in General 1. My Own View 2. Extraordinary Voyages 3. The Name of Our Field 4. The Universe of Science Fiction 5. Adventure! II. The Writing of Science Fiction 1. Hints 2. By No Means Vulgar 3. Learning Device 4. It’s A Funny Thing 5. The Mosaic and the Plate Glass 6. The Scientist as Villain 7. The Vocabulary of Science Fiction 8. Try to Write! III. The Predictions of Science Fiction 1. How Easy to See The Future! 2. The Dreams of Science Fiction IV. The History of Science Fiction 1. The Prescientific Universe 2. Science Fiction and Society 3. Science Fiction, 1938 4. How Science Fiction Became Big Business 5. The Boom in Science Fiction 6. Golden Age Ahead 7. Beyond Our Brain 8. The Myth of the Machine 9. Science Fiction From the Soviet Union 10. More Science Fiction From the Soviet Union http://thethunderchild.com The Thunder Child : Index To Isaac Asimov on Science Fiction , Avon, 1981 V. Science Fiction Writers 1. The First Science Fiction Novel 2. The First Science Fiction Writer 3. The Hole in the Middle 4. The Science Fiction Breakthrough 5. Big, Big, Big 6. The Campbell Touch 7. Reminiscences of Peg 8. Horace 9. The Second Nova 10. Ray Bradbury 11. Arthur C. Clarke 12. The Dean of Science Fiction 13. The Brotherhood of Science Fiction VI Science Fiction Fans 1. Our Conventions 2. The Hugos 3. Anniversaries 4. The Letter Column 5. The Articles of Science Fiction 6. Rejection Slips VII. Science Fiction Reviews 1. What Makes Good Science Fiction? 2. 1984 3. The Ring of Evil 4. The Answer to Star Wars? 5. Speculative Fiction 6. The Reluctant Critic VIII. Science Fiction and I 1. There’s Nothing Like A Good Foundation 2. The Wendell Urth Series 3. Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 4. Hollywood and I 5. The Prolific Writer http://thethunderchild.com The Thunder Child : Index To Isaac Asimov on Science Fiction , Avon, 1981 ABC (US television network) 297 Achilles (character, The Illiad ) 19, 82 Achilles (character, Greek mythology) 136 Ackerman, Forrest J. 12-13, 214 Actaeon and Artemis (characters, Greek 118 mythology) Adam and Eve (characters, Bible) 118 Aesop’s Fables 165 Africa, partitioning of 50, 126, 168 Air Wonder Stories magazine 95 Aldiss, Brian 4, 104 Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine 289 All (short story, John Campbell) 172 Alpha Centauri 35 alternate time paths (science fiction theme) 74 Amazing Stories: the magazine of 11, 12, 19, 87, 91, 95, 96, 103, 141, 203, 221, scientifiction (first science fiction magazine, 222, 225 debuted 1926) Analog magazine (previously Astounding 20, 119, 208, 224 Science Fiction , name changed 1960) Anderson, Poul (writer) 27, 123, 194 Andromeda Strain (novel, Michael Crichton) 105 Animal Farm (novel, 1944, George Orwell) 248 Arabian Nights, The 19 Argosy magazine 221, 288 http://thethunderchild.com The Thunder Child : Index To Isaac Asimov on Science Fiction , Avon, 1981 Arthur, King (character) 19, 119 Asimov, Janet (2 nd wife of Isaac) 186, 262 Asimov, Isaac 27, 56, 97, 101, 120, 122, 123, 124, 127, 137, 198, heart attack of 207, 289, 294 Asimov’s SF Adventure Magazine 18, 21 asteroid belt 174 Astonishing Stories magazine 11, 98 Astoria Science Fiction Club 93 Astounding Science Fiction (Astounding 19, 64, 65, 88, 91, 92, 101, 102, 177, 196, Stories magazine, renamed in 1937, after 197, 198, 213, 224, 226, 281, 286, 288 John W. Campbell became editor) Astounding Stories magazine (debuted 1930) 11, 19, 87, 91, 92, 94, 97, 99, 101, 114, 142, 143, 171, 177, 194, 223, 231 Australia 125 Avon Books 284 Baggins, Bilbo (character, The Hobbit) 167 Ballantine Books 190 Bartlett’s Quotations 97 Bat Mite (character, Batman cartoon) 245 Batman (tv series) 245 Batman cartoon 245 Battlestar Galactica (tv series) 108, 265-269 Baudelaire (translator of E. A. Poe’s work 140 into French) Beagle, Peter (author) 295 Bellamy, Edward 119 http://thethunderchild.com The Thunder Child : Index To Isaac Asimov on Science Fiction , Avon, 1981 Benford, Gregory 127-128 “Berserkers, The” (short story, author, Fred 126 Saberhagen) Bester, Alfred (author, short story, The 125 Demolished Man, 1952) Bible 162 “Bicentennial Man” (novelette, author Isaac 124, 219 Asimov, 1976) Big Eye, The (novel, Max Ehrlich) 198 bionic human beings (science fiction theme) 70 Bionic Woman, The (tv series) 244 black holes 36, 174 black holes (science fiction theme) 73-74 “Black Friar of the Flame” (short story, Isaac 179 Asimov) Black Cloud, The (novel, Fred Hoyle, 1957) 127 “Black Destroyer” (short story, AE Van Vogt, 191 July 1939 Astounding) Blair, Eric Arthur (real name of George 246 Orwell) Blish, James (author, “Surface Tension”, 127 short story, 1952) “Blowups Happen” (short story, Robert 172 Heinlein, Astounding, September 1940) Blue Book magazine 221 Bombadil, Tom (character, Lord of the Rings) 261, 262 Bonaparte, Napoleon 217 http://thethunderchild.com The Thunder Child : Index To Isaac Asimov on Science Fiction , Avon, 1981 Bond, Nelson 215 “Born of the Sun” (short story, Jack 97 Williamson, March 1934 Astounding magazine) Boston University School of Medicine 289 Boucher, Tony 188 Boulle, Pierre (author, Planet of the Apes, 122 1963) Bova, Ben 27, 117, 121, 123, 208-209, 224, 276 Brackett, Leigh (author) 105 Bradbury, Walter I. (Editor, Doubleday & 197 Company) Bradbury, Ray (author) 105, 190, 196-199 Brave New World (novel, Aldous Huxley, 87, 149 1932) Brebbel, Cornelis (submarine inventor) 159 Bretnor, Reginald (writer) 39 Briarton, Grendel (writer) 39 Brighton, England 104 Brobdingnabians (characters, Gulliver’s 8 Travels) Brown University 207 Buck Rogers (comic strip) 88, 199 Buono, Victor (actor) 243 Burroughs, Edgar Rice 162 Bushnell, David (submarine inventor) 159 http://thethunderchild.com The Thunder Child : Index To Isaac Asimov on Science Fiction , Avon, 1981 Butler, Samuel (novel, Erewhon ) 148 Byron, Lord 156, 275 CBS (US TV network) 297 Caedmon Records 155, 158, 196 Calvin, Susan (character, Asimov’s Positronic 283 Robot series) Campbell, Peg (second wife of John 181-184 Campbell, Jr.) Campbell, Clyde Crane (pseudonym, Horace 188 Gold) Campbell, John Wood Jr. (1911-1971) 7, 15, 16, 19, 87-88, 89, 91, 93, 98, 101, 102- 103, 105, 114, 119, 125, 126, 137, 142, 170- 184, 185, 188, 191, 194-195, 196-197, 198, 215, 223, 231, 233, 277, 281-282 Capek, Karel (Czech playwright, author, 51-52, 86, 121, 137 R.U.R.) Carr, Terry (editor, Classic Science Fiction: 114 The First Golden Age ) Carr, John Dickson 16 Cartmill, Cleve (author, short story, 64, 172 “Deadline”, Astounding, March, 1944) Castle of Otranto (novel, Horace Walpole) 164 Cavendish, Henry 161 Caves of Steel, The (novel, Isaac Asimov) 17, 286 Centaur (monster of legend) 81 Cepheids (type of star) 173 http://thethunderchild.com The Thunder Child : Index To Isaac Asimov on Science Fiction , Avon, 1981 Challenger, Professor (character, Conan 49 Doyle’s The Lost World ) Chaos (character, Greek mythology) 135 Childhood’s End (novel, Arthur C. Clarke) 105, 196, 198, 201 Children of the Lens (serial and novel by E. 192 E. Doc Smith) China 253, 256 Churchill, Winston 255 Circe (character, The Odyssey ) 7 Clark, Dr. John D. 204, 215 Clarke, Arthur C. 57, 101, 104, 105, 107, 123, 127, 137, 190, 194, 196, 200-201 Classic Science Fiction: The First Golden 114 Age (science fiction anthology edited by Terry Carr) Clayton Publishers (publishers of original 223 Astounding Stories magazine) Clement, Hal (author) 101 cloning (science fiction theme) 70 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (movie) 199, 275-278 Cold War, the 141 Coleridge 275 Collier Books 139 Colossus: The Forbin Project ( movie) 123 Columbia University 289 Comet Stories magazine 98 http://thethunderchild.com The Thunder Child : Index To Isaac Asimov on Science Fiction , Avon, 1981 computerized education (science fiction 69 theme) computers (science fiction theme) 69 Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court, 166 A (novel, Mark Twain, 1889) Cosmic Stories magazine 98 Crete 131 Crichton, Michael (author, Andromeda 105 Strain ) Crowell-Collier Publishing Company 139, 146 Crown Publishers 100 Cyclops (character, The Odyssey ) 19 D’arcy, Lord (character, created by Randall 125 Garrett) Daedalus (character, Greek mythology) 130 Dandelion Wine (novel, Ray Bradbury) 198 Dante (author, Divine Comedy , 1307) 161 Dark Ages, the 84 Darrow, Jack 214 Darwin, Charles 119 David Starr: Space Ranger (novel, Isaac 36 Asimov) Davis, Joel 220, 224, 232, 233, 289, 290, 292 Davis Publications, Inc. 18, 289 Davy, Humphry 163 http://thethunderchild.com The Thunder Child : Index To Isaac Asimov on Science Fiction , Avon, 1981 “Dawn of the Conquest of Space, The” 231 (article, Willy Ley, March 1937 Astounding) de Bergerac, Cyrano 155 de Camp, L. Sprague (author, Science Fiction 27, 125, 204, 215, 224, 231, 291 Handbook ) “Deadline” (short story by Cleve Cartmill, 65 March 1944 Astounding Science Fiction ) Dean drive 171 Declaration of Independence 84 Deimos (Mars satellite) 174 del Rey, Lester (author) 101, 122, 124, 172, 183, 188, 204, 205 del Rey, Judy-Lynn (wife of Lester) 183, 190, 205 Del Rey Books 205 Delaney, Samuel R. (Author, novel, Nova , 124 1968) Demac, Denison 246 “Demolished Man, The” (short story, 1952, 125 Alfred Bester “Design for Life” (article, L. Sprague de 231 Camp, May and June 1939, Astounding) Destination: Moon (movie) 106 Di Rienzo, Constance 290 Dickens, Charles 26 Dickson, Gordon 183 Dionysius (god, Greek mythology) 167 Discon I (World Science Fiction Convention, 291 Washington, 1963) http://thethunderchild.com The Thunder Child : Index To Isaac Asimov on Science Fiction , Avon, 1981 Disraeli, Benjamin (author, The Two Nations , 166 1845) “Divide and Rule” (short story, L.
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