RafeeqMcGiveron.com
  • Home
  • My Writings
    • Novel: Student Body >
      • Student Body: Sample 1
      • Student Body: Sample 2
      • Student Body: Sample 3
      • Student Body: Sample 4
      • Student Body: Sample 5
      • Student Body: Sample 6
    • Literary Criticism and Reviews >
      • On Robert A. Heinlein
      • On Ray Bradbury
      • On Other Authors
      • Goodreads Reviews
    • Advising/Teaching
    • Poetry
    • Memoir
    • The Bibliophile's Personal Library
    • Have You Ever Been to an Irishman's Shanty?
    • Letters from Gregory Road
  • Heinlein Cover Art
    • Pulp Magazines
    • Earlier Adult Works
    • Scribner’s YA/Juveniles
    • Serialized Novels
    • Collections/Anthologies
    • Later Works
    • On Heinlein
  • Other SF Art
    • Big Illustrated Books >
      • Flights of Fancy
      • The History of SF
      • Science Fiction/Science Fact >
        • Children's
    • Vintage Hardcovers
    • Paperbacks, Etc.
    • Pulp Magazines
  • Blog
  • Links
    • In the News

Call for Contributors—Fahrenheit 451!

7/26/2013

0 Comments

 
Picture
As volume editor for a collection of new scholarly essays on Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 that will be published by Salem Press in its Critical Insights Series, I am entertaining proposals for the following:

a biographical sketch, around 2000 words;

an introductory chapter on Cultural/Historical Context, 4000-5000 words;

an introductory Compare-and-Contrast chapter, 4000-5000 words;

an introductory chapter on Critical Reception of the novel, 4000-5000 words;

an introductory Critical Lens chapter of a close reading from a particular critical standpoint, 4000-5000 words; and

ten Critical Reading chapters on topics related to the work, author, or its themes, 5000 words each.

Contributors will receive an honorarium of $250.  I believe access to the electronic version of the text may be given as well, and for traditionalists who enjoy having a printed book around—like myself, I confess—the press, if I recall, is amenable to purchase by contributors at around 50% off.

Fahrenheit 451 is a work particularly dear to me, one which over the years I have read again and again, taught, and written about.  In this current effort I am extraordinarily pleased to have the opportunity to bring together important essays that will help further the understanding of the novel by academics, students, and ordinary readers alike.

Interested scholars, please contact me immediately at rafeeq.o.mcgiveron@gmail.com.  Due dates will be around the middle of October, so the sooner I can get all ducks in a row, the better.  Naturally, if you are interested, I of course have fuller instructions/guidelines from Salem to send, then a contributor’s contract, etc.


0 Comments

More SF cover art: Heinlein and Pohl & Williamson

7/21/2013

0 Comments

 
Picture
A smallish addition to the SF cover art galleries today: another Podkayne of Mars, a Baen Glory Road by Stephen Hickman, and a couple of Pohl and Williamson.

To the left I thumbnailed the colorful escape-fantasy cover of The Reefs of Space, but in the "Other SF Art" gallery I particularly recommend the Van Dongen Undersea Quest that seems to hark back to the Frank R. Paul days of the 1930s.

Enjoy,

Rafeeq

0 Comments

    Author

    Author of several dozen pieces of literary criticism, reference entries, and reviews; novel Student Body; memoir Tiger Hunts, Thunder Bay, and Treasure Chests; how-to The Bibliophile's Personal Library; humorous Have You Ever Been to an Irishman's Shanty?​; some poetry; and quite a bit of advising/Banner training materials.

    Archives

    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    July 2021
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    February 2020
    September 2019
    March 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    August 2018
    June 2018
    November 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    July 2016
    May 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    October 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013

    Categories

    All
    A.J. Donnell
    Anthony Boucher
    Astounding Science Fiction
    Book Review
    Chesley Bonestell
    Clifford Geary
    Curious Books
    Darrell K. Sweet
    Edd Cartier
    Ed Emshwiller
    Fahrenheit 451
    Fred Freeman
    Goodreads
    Hal Clement
    Hannes Bok
    Hubert Rogers
    Jack Finney
    Jim Burns Art
    Kelly Freas
    Larry Webb
    Lester Del Rey
    Michigan Transfer Agreement
    Philip K. Dick
    Pulp SF
    Ray Bradbury
    Reading Place Charlotte
    Reading Place-Charlotte
    Richard M. Powers
    Robert A. Heinlein
    Rolf Klep
    Salem Press
    Salem Press
    Schuler Books
    Scribner's
    SF Art
    Steele Savage
    Student Body
    Vincent Di Fate
    Virgil Finlay

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.