In Search of Wonder
In Search of Wonder, first published by Advent in 1956, collects Damon Knight's seminal reviews of SF. Introduction by Anthony Boucher. Contents:
- Critics
- The Classics
- Chuckleheads
- Campbell and His Decade
- Cosmic Jerrybuilder: A. E. van Vogt
- Half-Bad Writers
- One Sane Man: Robert A. Heinlein
- Asimov and Empire
- More Chuckleheads
- When I Was in Kneepants: Ray Bradbury
- The Vorpal Pen: Theodore Sturgeon
- Anthologies
- Genius to Order: Kuttner and Moore
- Kornbluth and the Silver Lexicon
- The Jagged Blade: James Blish
- Overalls on Parnassus: Fletcher Pratt
- Microcosmic Moskowitz
- New Stars
- Curiosa
- The Giants
- Pitfalls and Dead Ends
- What next?
The second edition (Advent 1967) adds several more chapters:
- Half Loaves
- Amphibians
- B-R-R-R!
- Decadents
- Britons
- Symbolism
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