Research Catalog

Title

A lover's diary, songs in sequence, by Gilbert Parker.

Author

Parker, Gilbert, 1862-1932

Publication

New York, Macmillan; London, Macmillan, 1898.

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Details

Description

147 p.; 18 cm.

Subject

Love poetry, Canadian

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction / [Lawrence Sutin] -- pt. 1. Autobiographical writings -- Two fragments from the mainstream novel Gather yourselves together (1949) -- "Introducing the author" (1953) -- "Biographical material on Philip K. Dick" (1968) -- "Self portrait" (1968) -- "Notes made late at night by a weary SF writer" (1968, 1972) -- "Biographical material on Philip K. Dick" (1972) -- "Biographical material on Philip K Dick" (1973) -- "Memories found in a bill from a small animal vet" (1976) -- "The short, happy life of a science fiction writer" (1976) -- "Strange memories of death" (1979, 1984) -- "Philip K. Dick on philosophy : a brief interview," conducted by Frank C. Bertrand (1980, 1988) -- pt. 2. Writings on science fiction and related ideas -- "Pessimism in science fiction" (1955) -- "Will the atomic bomb ever be perfected, and if so, what becomes of Robert Heinlein?" (1966) -- "The Double: Bill symposium" : replies to "A questionnaire for professional SF writers and editors" (1969) -- "That moon plaque" (1969) -- "Who is an SF writer?" (1974) -- "Michelson-Morley experiment reappraised" (1979) -- "Introduction" to The golden Man (1980) -- "Book review" of The cybernetic imagination in science fiction (1980) -- "My definition of science fiction" (1981) -- "Prediction" by Philip K. Dick included in The book of predictions(1981) -- "Universe makers ... and breakers" -- "Headnote" for "Beyond lies the wub" (1981).
• Pt. 3. Works related to The man in the high castle and its proposed sequel -- "Naziism and The high castle" (1964) -- "Biographical material on Hawthorne Abendsen" (1974) -- The two completed chapters of a proposed sequel to The man in the High Castle (1964) -- pt. 4. Plot proposals and outlines -- "Joe Protagoras is alive and living on Earth" (1967) -- "Plot idea for Mission: Impossible" (1967) -- "TV series idea" (1967) -- "Notes on Do androids dream of electric sleep?"
• Pt. 5. Essays and speeches -- "Drugs, hallucinations, and the quest for reality" (1964) -- "Schizophrenia & The book of changes" (1965) -- "The android and the human" (1972) -- "Man, android, and machine" (1976) -- "If you find this world bad, you should see some of the others" (1977) -- "How to build a universe that doesn't fall apart two days later" (1978, 1985) -- "Cosmogony and cosmology" (1978) -- "The Tagore letter" -- pt. 6. Selections for the Exegesis -- From the Exegesis (c. 1975-80).

LCCN

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Owning Institutions

Harvard Library