In Search of Wonder

In Search of Wonder, first published by Advent in 1956, collects Damon Knight's seminal reviews of SF. Introduction by Anthony Boucher. Contents:

• Critics
• The Classics
• Chuckleheads
• Campbell and His Decade
• Cosmic Jerrybuilder: A. E. van Vogt
• Half-Bad Writers
• One Sane Man: Robert A. Heinlein
• Asimov and Empire
• More Chuckleheads
• When I Was in Kneepants: Ray Bradbury
• The Vorpal Pen: Theodore Sturgeon
• Anthologies
• Genius to Order: Kuttner and Moore
• Kornbluth and the Silver Lexicon
• The Jagged Blade: James Blish
• Overalls on Parnassus: Fletcher Pratt
• Microcosmic Moskowitz
• New Stars
• Curiosa
• The Giants
• Pitfalls and Dead Ends
• What next?

The second edition (Advent 1967) adds several more chapters:

• Half Loaves
• Amphibians
• B-R-R-R!
• Decadents
• Britons
• Symbolism

In Search of Wonder, along with James Blish's two volumes The Issue at Hand and More Issues at Hand represent the earliest systematic, high-quality criticism of the SF field.

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Publication

1956—1967

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