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  First Edition of The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book; Signed by Legendary Science-Fiction Writers George R.R. Martin, Frederik Pohl, and Robert Silverberg

  EDITED BY ISAAC ASIMOV, George R.R. Martin and Martin H. Greenberg [Frederik Pohl; Robert Silverberg].

  The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book.

  New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1983.

  First edition of this anthology of fifteen short stories and novellas from legendary science-fiction authors. Octavo, original publisher's half-cloth. Boldly signed by Frederik Pohl on the half-title page, George R.R. Martin on the title page, and Robert Silverberg on page 57 of his short story. George Raymond Richard Martin (born 1948), Frederik George Pohl Jr. and Robert Silverberg represent three generations of American science fiction writing whose collective output spans virtually the entire modern history of the genre. Pohl was among the most consequential figures in science fiction as both writer and editor — co-authoring with C.M. Kornbluth the landmark satirical novel The Space Merchants (1953), editing Galaxy Science Fiction and If magazines during their most influential years, winning the Hugo Award for Best Novel for Gateway (1977), and becoming only the third person ever named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Silverberg, whose productivity across six decades generated more than five hundred books, won five Nebula Awards and five Hugo Awards and was himself named a Grand Master — producing in works like Dying Inside (1972) a body of literary science fiction that consistently tested the boundaries of what the genre could achieve...

  Price: $950.00     Item Number: 151965

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