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Crisis!
James Gunn

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Copyright 1986 by James Gunn
First e-reads publication 1999
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ISBN 0-7592-0273-7

Author Biography
James Gunn has worked as an editor of paperback reprints, as managing editor of K.U. alumni
publications, as director of K.U. public relations, as a professor of English, and now is professor emeritus
of English and director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction. He won national awards for his
work as an editor and a director of public relations. He was awarded the Byron Caldwell Smith Award
in recognition of literary achievement and the Edward Grier Award for excellence in teaching, was
president of the Science Fiction Writers of America for 1971-72 and president of the Science Fiction
Research Association from 1980-82, was guest of honor at many regional SF conventions, including
SFeracon in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, and Polcon, the Polish National SF convention, in Katowice; was
presented the Pilgrim Award of SFRA in 1976, a special award from the 1976 World SF Convention
for Alternate Worlds, a Science Fiction Achievement Award (Hugo) by the 1983 World SF Convention
for Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction, and the Eaton Award in 1992 for lifetime
achievement; was a K.U. Mellon Fellow in 1981 and 1984; and served from 1978-80 and 1985-present
as chairman of the Campbell Award jury to select the best science-fiction novel of the year. He has
lectured in Denmark, China, Iceland, Japan, Poland, Romania, Singapore, Sweden, Taiwan, Yugoslavia,
and the Soviet Union for the U.S. Information Agency.

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This Fortress World

Preface
The novelCrisis! started out to be a television series. Back in the mid-1970s a television series calledThe
Six-Million-Dollar Man was ranked in the top half-dozen most popular shows on American television.
It was broadcast on NBC, and CBS wanted a science-fiction television series that might compete for the
same audience. Since I was going to be in Los Angeles, my Hollywood agent asked if I had any ideas
that could be developed into such a series. "Sure," I said, agent and I had a meeting with CBS executives