(James E. Gunn) Station In Space

07-07-06 READ (James E. Gunn) Station In SpaceJames Gunn was writ­ing “hard sci­ence fic­tion” in the 1950’s, and was in some ways the pre­cur­sor of peo­ple like Ben Bova and Lar­ry Niv­en. The con­nected sto­ries in this book are Gunn’s attempt to envi­sion the con­struc­tion of an orbit­ing space sta­tion, at a time when “seri­ous” sci­en­tists still dis­missed talk of space explo­ration as mere fan­tasy. Unlike many who had writ­ten sto­ries in which eccen­tric sci­en­tists built space ships in their back yards, Gunn under­stood that such a project would require engi­neer­ing and financ­ing on a mam­moth scale, and would involve polit­i­cal com­plex­i­ties. The sto­ries are quaint, now, but will inter­est any­one who reads fic­tion with a his­tor­i­cal perspective.

con­tents:

15119. (James E. Gunn) The Cave of Night [sto­ry]
15120. (James E. Gunn) Hoax [sto­ry]
15121. (James E. Gunn) The Big Wheel [sto­ry]
15122. (James E. Gunn) Pow­der Keg [sto­ry]
15123. (James E. Gunn) Space Is a Lone­ly Place [sto­ry]

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