Bruce Bethke was a regular contributor to Amazing Stories in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as to a wide variety of other magazines. A critically acclaimed and award-winning science fiction novelist, he takes strangely perverse pride in knowing that he once managed to convince the editor of Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine that his unabashed swashbuckling pirate story was in fact a science fiction story. Bethke can be contacted through his Web site, www.BruceBethke.com.
Description
This is one essay from the anthology The Anthology at the End of the Universe
Cult favorite for over twenty years, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series has influenced everything from modern day science fiction to the look of today’s computer interfaces. This anthology includes not only a look at the inaccurately named trilogy’s social and technological effects, but an assessment of Vogon poetry, the zen of 42 and why Marvin is actually Jesus Christ.
Contributors include:
- Maria Alexander
- Stephen Baxter
- Amy Berner
- Bruce Bethke
- Mike Byrne
- Marie-Catherine Caillava
- Jacqueline Carey
- Adam-Troy Castro
- Vox Day
- Don DeBrandt
- A.M. Dellamonica
- Cory Doctorow
- Marguerite Krause
- Adam Roberts
- Selina Rosen
- John Shirley
- Susan Sizemore
- Mark W. Tiedemann
- Lawrence Watt-Evans
About the Author
Glenn Yeffeth is the editor of several anthologies in the Smart Pop series, including The Anthology at the End of the Universe, Farscape Forever!, Five Seasons of Angel, Navigating the Golden Compass, Seven Seasons of Buffy, Taking the Red Pill and What Would Sipowitz Do? He lives in Dallas.