In a deluxe collector's edition, four classic science fiction novels
from the genre's most transformative decade--including the landmark
Flowers for Algernon
This volume, the first of a two-volume set gathering the best American
science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, opens with Poul Anderson's
immensely popular The High Crusade, in which aliens planning to
conquer Earth land in Lincolnshire during the Hundred Years' War.
In Clifford Simak's Hugo Award-winning Way Station, Enoch Wallace
is a spry 124-year-old Civil War veteran whose lifelong job monitoring
the intergalactic pit stop inside his home is largely uneventful--until
a CIA agent shows up and Cold War hostilities threaten the peaceful
harmony of the Galactic confederation.
Daniel Keyes's beloved Flowers for Algernon--winner of the Nebula
Award and adapted as the Academy Award-winning movie Charly--is told
through the journal entries of Charlie Gordon, a young man with severe
learning disabilities who is the test subject for surgery to improve his
intelligence.
And in the postapocalyptic earthscape of Roger Zelazny's Hugo
Award-winning . . . And Call Me Conrad (also published as This
Immortal) Conrad Nomikos reluctantly accepts the responsibility of
showing the planet to the governing extraterrestrials' representative
and protecting him from rebellious remnants of the human race. Using
early manuscripts and original setting copy, this Library of America
volume restores the novel to a version that most closely approximates
Zelazny's original text.
