Lewis has a rich and complex relationship with American culture, upon which his writing has drawn as deeply as it has influenced. This quartet is a four novel series, each of which follows the leaders of American culture through a decade of their lives, thereby tracing the very substance of America's contemporary history through its unfolding.
Drawn from the leading pulp magazines of the 1950s — Galaxy, Amazing Science Fiction Stories, and Fantastic Universe — these eight groundbreaking selections offer spellbinding science-fiction tales of encounters with Martians and other extraterrestrials. "Youth," by Isaac Asimov, recounts two friends' ...