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Ungar Pub Co [Published Date: 1987]. Hard cover, 280 pp. 1987 edition. New and Revised Profiles by Charles Platt. Good in good+ dust jacket. Black textured paper over boards with silver lettering on spine. Light bumping to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages yellowed with age but otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and tears and light overall scuffing. NOT price clipped. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. Black and white illustrations. [From front jacket flap] Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers at Work New and Revised Profiles by Charles Platt. Take a unique and amazing journey into the minds of the extraordinary men and women who write fantasy and science fiction! 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. Who are the people who write these enormously popular books? How do they live, what do they think, and what makes them so special? To find the answers to these questions, Charles Platt traveled the USA from coast to coast and then England, visiting the authors in their homes and drawing out their innermost thoughts and aspirations in a wittily revealing series of interviews. His approach is far from adulatory, however, and there are many sharp exchanges and pertinent asides in the course of these fascinating conversations, making for compulsive reading. Now these profiles are published for the first time in hardcover, with new material added and an afterword bringing it right up to date. Among the authors included are Brian Aldiss, Isaac Asimov, J. G. Ballard, Alfred Bester, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip C Dick, Harlan Ellison, Harry Harrison, Frank Herbert, Stephen King, Fritz Leiber, Michael Moorcock, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, Theodore Sturgeon, A. E. van Vogt, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.