DREAM MAKERS, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers at Work, by Charles Platt (profiles) - 1987

Xanadu Publications, London - revised edition 1987 Hardcover, 22 cms x 14¼cms, with dust jacket VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket Black cloth-bound boards with silver type to spine, 25 b&w photographs, and afterword. Here in one handsome volume are the best of Charles Platt's celebrated and quirky interviews with the leading sf writers of Britain and America - twenty-five of them. His approach is far from adulatory and there are many sharp exchanges and pertinent asides in the course of these fascinating conversations (including with the elusive Ron L Hubbard!). Among those included here: Brian Aldiss, Isaac Asimov, J G Ballard, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C Clarke, Harlan Ellison, Frank Herbert, Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegut + +.