The Engines of the Night: Science Fiction in the Eighties

Hugo Award nominee 1983.

Contents:

• Introduction
• The Number of the Beast (essay)
  
• L'Etat c'est moi (essay)
• I Could Have Been a Contender, Part One (essay)
• Anonymity & Empire (essay)
• I Don't Know How to Put It Love but I'll Surely Surely Try (essay)
• Memoir from Grub Street (essay)
• The Fifties (essay)
• The Fifties: Recapitulation and Coda (essay)
• Ah Tempora! Ah Portions! Ah Mores! Ah Outlines! (essay)
• Science Fiction and the Academy: Some Notes (essay)
• At the Divining Edge (essay)
• Some Notes Toward the True and the Terrible (essay)
• Wrong Rabbit (essay)
• John W. Campbell: June 8, 1910 to July 11, 1971 (essay)
• The Science Fiction of Science Fiction (essay)
• I Don't Want Her You Can Have Her-- (essay)
• Onward and Upward With the Arts Part II (essay)
• Tell Me Doctor If You Can That It's Not All Happening Again (essay)
• The Richard Nixon-John B. Mitchell-Spiro Agnew Blues (essay)
• Cornell George Hopley Woolrich: December 1903 to September 1968 (essay)
• A Few Hard Truths for the Troops (essay)
• Onward and Upward With the Arts Part III (essay)
• Science Fiction As Picasso (essay)
• Mark Clifton: 1906-1963 (essay)
• September 1973: What I Did Last Summer (essay)
• The Cutting Edge (essay)
• Son of the True and Terrible (essay)
• The All-Time, Prime-Time, Take-Me-to-Your-Leader Science Fiction Plot (essay)
• Grandson of the True and the Terrible (essay)
• Give Me That Old-Time Religion (essay)
• SF Forever (essay)
• What I Won't Do Next Summer, I Guess (essay)
• Come Fool, Follify (essay)
• The Engines of the Night (essay)
• Con Sordino (essay)
• Corridors (short story)
• L'Envoi (essay)