Fantastic Lives

“Fantastic Lives . . . collects new autobiographical essays by Harlan Elli­son, Philip José Farmer, R. A. Lafferty, Katherine Maclean, Barry Malzberg, Mack Reynolds, Margaret St. Clair, Norman Spinrad, and A. E. van Vogt. Maclean, Reynolds, and St. Clair are each, in their own way, important if not popularly first-ranked figures in the movement of American sf out of the pulps and into the university presses. Each of the rest is a cranky genius; kooky in some cases, the author of land­mark work in all.”—Algis Budrys, ChicagoSun-Times