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FUTURELOVE
A Science Fiction triad
Introduction by GORDON R. DICKSON

The Dobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. Indianapolis/New York

Copyright ┬й 1977 by Roger Elwood

All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any
form Published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. Indianapolis New York

Manufactured in the United States of America

CONTENTS

Introduction vii;

THE GREATEST LOVE

page 1 by Anne McCaffrey

PSI CLONE

page 70 by Joan Hunter Holly

LOVE ROGO

page 157 by Jeffrey A. Carver

INTRODUCTION


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Everybody wants to write, it seems. Few, however, actually do so; and in turn
only a few of these end up getting their work published. Indeed, ever since the
early storytellers first stood up before the cave fires of stone-age hunters, a dream
has persisted of some method which could turn story-making from a mysterious
and individual art to something anyone with determination could do.

In the heyday of the pulps, the nineteen-twenties through the nineteen-forties, a
number of systems tried to do just this, mainly by reducing a story to something
called "plot," and then by further breaking down this business of plot into
component parts which could then be reassembled to form the basis of a story