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Through Stranger Eyes: Reviews, Introductions, Tributes & Iconoclastic Essays

David Brin

First published 2008
Publisher Nimble Books
Format Trade Paperback
Type Nonfiction
Cover art Conny Valentina
Pages 215
Price £14.00
ISBN 9781934840399


• © 2008 • "Version 1.0; last saved 2008-05-19" on copyright page • POD edition, no number line; unknown if the "last saved" date was the day of publication [month from amazon.uk] • There is no printed price [Locus1 has $22.88 but that has to be the US equivalent of the £ price at the time - £14.00; PV1 copy printed in the UK], "90000" in EAN-13 price zone. • "Cover by Conny Valentina" on title page, no visible signature on the artwork

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Page Title Author(s) Type
8 Author's Preface (Through Stranger Eyes: Reviews, Introductions, Tributes & Iconoclastic Essays) David Brin Essay
11 Introduction (Through Stranger Eyes: Reviews, Introductions, Tributes & Iconoclastic Essays) Arthur Salm Essay
14 1984 David Brin & George Orwell Review
14 George Orwell and the Self-Preventing Prophecy David Brin Essay
22 The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears David Brin Essay
27 The Lord of the Rings David Brin & J. R. R. Tolkien Review
27 The Lord of the Rings: J. R. R. Tolkien vs the Modern Age David Brin Essay
39 The Sheep Look Up David Brin & John Brunner Review
41 Alas Babylon David Brin & Pat Frank Review
48 The Dark Side: Star Wars, Mythology and Ingratitude David Brin Essay
68 The Matrix: Tomorrow May Be Different David Brin Essay
80 The Separation David Brin & Christopher Priest Review
80 The Separation by Christopher Priest David Brin Essay
94 The Penal Colony David Brin & Richard Herley Review
98 Stand on Zanzibar David Brin & John Brunner Review
98 Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner David Brin Essay
103 Lord of Light David Brin & Roger Zelazny Review
107 Journey to the Center of the Earth David Brin & Jules Verne Review
112 The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse by Gregg Easterbrook David Brin Essay
117 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond David Brin Essay
123 River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit David Brin Essay
129 The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard P. Feynman David Brin Essay
132 Time Travel in Einstein's Universe: The Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time by J. Richard Gott David Brin Essay
135 The Fifth Essence by Lawrence Krauss David Brin Essay
137 Fortune or Failure: Missed Opportunities and Chance Discoveries by Alexander Kohn David Brin Essay
141 The Art of Fiction by Ayn Rand David Brin Essay
150 Beyond Thirty David Brin & Edgar Rice Burroughs Review
155 Guilty Pleasures: Or Why Buffy Goes David Brin Essay
158 Godspeed David Brin & Charles Sheffield Review
162 Rocket Boys David Brin & Homer H. Hickam, Jr. Review
165 Ground Zero David Brin & Fred Gambino Review
167 Paradise, Purgatory & Inferno David Brin & Mike Resnick Review
171 When Heaven Fell David Brin & William Barton Review
176 Jack Williamson: A World in Love with Change David Brin Essay
181 Poul Anderson David Brin Essay
184 Preventing Tomorrows: Harry Harrison and the Most Dangerous Sea David Brin Essay
187 Greg Bear: Citizen of the Renaissance David Brin Essay
192 Burnable Benford: or Attack of the Clone David Brin Essay
195 Isaac Asimov: Scientist and Science Fiction Author David Brin Essay
197 Jim Burns: Artist and Cover Illustrator David Brin Essay
198 Arthur C. Clarke David Brin Essay
202 A Long, Lonely Road: Some Informal Advice to New Authors David Brin Essay
209 The Uplift Universe Loren Plano & David Brin Essay