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A welcome addition to a science fiction library.

Publication: Extrapolation
Publication Date: 22-DEC-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A welcome addition to a science fiction library.(Dancing Naked: The Unexpurgated William Tenn)(Book review)

Article Excerpt
William Tenn. Dancing Naked: The Unexpurgated William Tenn. Ed. Laurie D.T. Mann. Framingham, MA: The NEFSA Press, 2004. 448 pp. $29 hdbk.

As I finished my undergraduate college years, I put together a portfolio of my writing as a final requirement for my writing minor. I was reminded of this portfolio as I read Dancing Naked: The Unexpurgated William Tenn, an enjoyable and thoughtful collection of the satirist's various writings published by NESFA Press. William Tenn is best remembered as a science fiction writer who published stories like the classic "Child's Play" beginning in the 1950s. Dancing Naked--a hefty 427 page volume--primarily consists of seven sections representing the various nonfiction genres Tenn (a pseudonym for Philip Klass) dabbled in over his lengthy career, as well as a couple in-depth interviews. The collection spans nearly seven decades of writing, from his earliest published writing in the late 1930s to...

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