The best short stories of SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight, who was best known for his short stories, filled with sardonic wit and unusual adventure--so this is a collection of the best of the best of the best. 'Nuff said. Read & enjoy!

The classic guide to writing short fiction -- Revised & Expanded 3rd ed."What Knight doesn't know about writing the short story cannot be put into expository prose anyway."--Algis Budrys"Damon Knight is one of the preeminent teachers of writing in this country. Creating Short Fiction should be considered essential for all beginning writers... not to mention a few others, who've forgotten the invaluable information it contains."--Lucius ShepardDistilled f...

The Damon Knight Science Fiction MEGAPACK® showcases the early pulp magazine work of Damon Knight, one of the most acclaimed and influential voices in the science fiction field from the 1950s onward. Here are 10 classic tales of aliens, interplanetary adventure, exploration, and more as only a Grand Master could write them. Included are:“Doorway To Kal-jmar”“A Likely Story”“The Earth Quarter”“Definition”“The Avenger”“Special Delivery”

A collection of short stories and novelettes selected and written by SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight, originally created for Pulphouse's "Author's Choice Monthly" series. From the introduction:This series of stories begins with the Creation and ends with the Last Trump, touching a few bases in between, and I think that's not too bad for a book this size.

Another excellent collection of SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight's always-excellent stories--five novellas in this case, generally circling around "the great unsolved problem of politics: how to keep the bastards from grinding you down."Rule Golden--what if the Golden Rule were enforced in reverse by some force--the bad things you do to others are done to you?Natural State--are cities doomed by genetic engineering?Double Meaning--a race against time to find a shape-shi...

A classic must-have for all readers and writers of science fiction!Damon Knight effectively invented science fiction criticism. His reviews were not mere statements of his personal preferences—his skillful essays analyzed the books and told why they were good or bad, to the edification of readers, the delight of good writers, and the embarrassment of bad ones.In this unique critical study of science fiction, Mr. Knight works on the principle that science fiction is a form o...

With fifty illustrations, many never before published.The Futurian Society was founded in 1938 by thirteen science fiction fans; it never numbered more than twenty, including wives, girl friends and hangers-on; yet out of this small group came seven of the most famous names in science fiction: Isaac Asimov, James Blish, Damon Knight, Cyril Kornbluth, Judith Merril, Frederik Pohl and Donald A. Wollheim.Brilliant, eccentric and poor, the Futurians invented their own subcultur...

SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight edits and contributes to this incredible collection of essays on writing, reading, and the nature of science fiction, written by all the greatest science fiction writers ever. Contents include:Introduction. A Walk Around the Topic- Science Fiction: Its Nature, Faults and Virtues - Robert A. Heinlein- Social Science Fiction - Isaac Asimov- What Is Science Fiction? - Damon KnightII. History Without Tears- Pilgrim ...

In their only book collaboration, two of science fictions most beloved, award-winning, married writers tackle the same science fiction story premise to get two incredibly different results, and reminisce about the writing process and their lives together. Plus, poetry!

Bonus! Two chapbooks on writing from the master.Faking Out the Reader focuses on using "head fakes" in writing for delightful results.It All Begins with Characters is a brief masterclass on how to create the best characters.Both of these were originally published in Pulphouse Publishing's "Writer's Chapbook Series" (#27 and #37, respectively). Both of Damon's contributions to the series are presented here in one volume for your enjoyment and writerly improvement.

In the 21st century, Ed Stone says he's been in suspended animation since the 1930s--put there by aliens who have sent him on a mission: convince the nations of the world to build a massive vault, and put all the billions of humanity into suspended animation to survive the Earth's impending destruction. Strangest of all: Everybody believes him.

A physics professor begins to doubt that he is a human being. He imagines that he may have been sent from another world to rescue Earth... or perhaps to destroy it? Solving the mystery takes him far into the future...