"James Gunn - Crisis" - читать интересную книгу автора (Gunn James E)

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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Other works by James Gunn also available in e-reads editions

Future Imperfect
Kampus
Station In Space
The Listeners
The Magicians
This Fortress World




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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
in which I described my idea for a television program in which a man from the future is sent back to deal
with problems of our times that are going to turn the future into an unlivable hell. But each time the man
from the future intervenes to solve a problem, or, more accurately, help others solve the problem, he
forgets who he is and what he has done. He has to leave messages for himself. And I outlined the plot of
"Child of the Sun."

The CBS executives seemed to like the idea, but I never heard any more from them about it. After a
couple of months I decided that since I had done all the work of planning the episode, I might as well
turn it into a story. I wrote "Child of the Sun," andAnalog published it in March of 1977. The following