Scarecrow Press
Pages: 168
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Trim: 5½ x 8¾
978-0-8108-4028-7 • Paperback • June 2001 • $74.00 • (£57.00)
Bonnie Kunzel is the current President of YALSA, the Young Adult Library Services Association, and a Teen Specialist in the Youth Services Department of Princeton Public Library. Suzanne Manczuk is Adjunct Professor, Rutgers University, SCILS. She is also Associate Reviews Editor, Linworth Publications.
Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Alien Contact
Chapter 4 All Creatures Great and Small
Chapter 5 Alternate Reality
Chapter 6 Biotechnology
Chapter 7 Brain Power
Chapter 8 Brave New Worlds
Chapter 9 Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
Chapter 10 Endangered Earth
Chapter 11 Hackers and Droids
Chapter 12 Here There Be Dragons
Chapter 13 Imagination's Other Place
Chapter 14 In Legendary Camelot
Chapter 15 A Matter of Belief
Chapter 16 Metamorphoses
Chapter 17 Once Upon a Time
Chapter 18 Postapocalypse
Chapter 19 Space Opera
Chapter 20 A Story, A Story
Chapter 21 Time Warp
Chapter 22 To a Galaxy, Far, Far Away
Chapter 23 To Be Continued...
Chapter 24 Author and Title Index
Chapter 25 About the Authors
...this resource will be a highly useful readers' advisory tool, especially for the generalist who feels out of his or her element in helping teens find good SF and fantasy.
— VOYA
An excellent and very highly recommended introductory guide to, and listing of, notable titles, First Contact is also the perfect resource and reference to preparing oneself to enjoy a science fiction or fantasy convention!
— Midwest Book Review
This excellent, well-organized title is highly useful for collection development and readers' advisory in both public and school libraries.
— School Library Journal
...contains well-written, concise, annotated bibliographies divided into 21 chapters by sub-genre....useful for increasing circulation of books already found in existing collections.
— The Book Report