The Collected Essays of Sylvia Engdahl
These three ebooks contain most ofs the essays I have written so far. They replace an earlier collection, Reflections on the Future, which covered too many different topics and which with the addition of new essays would have been too long. (It is no longer available, though if you have already bought it you can still download it.) Most, but not all, of these essays are also available online at this website and are linked below. However, because of their length you may to prefer to read them in ebook form rather than online.
All three books are now permafree (except at Amazon, which sometimes prices them at 99 cents without informing me (if this happens; Smashwords offers mobi format, which can be read on Kindles). They are available in Kindle, epub, and pdf formats.
There are no print editions, but if you prefer to see pages rather than flowing text you can get pdf editions at Google Play that are formatted just like books (rather than like manuscripts) and you can print them if you want to. (They are called "original pages" rather than "pdf" on the order page.) Also, There is now a short sampler paperback containing 12 essays from the collections, since the ebooks are too long to be issued in paperback at reasonable prices.
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Vol. 1 - Reflections on Enchantress from the Stars and Other Essays
Essays abiut my novels, writing and publishing, plus two autobiographical essays. For a list of the included essays nd links to the online text, click the cover or WRITING in the navigation bar.
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Vol. 2 - From This Green Earth: Essays on Looking Outward
All my space advocacy essays and others related to space. For a list of the included essays nd links to the online text, click on the cover or SPACE in the navigation bar.
Vol. 3 - The Future of Being Human and Other Essays
Essays about topics such as the future of humanity, artificial intellignce, psi, and medical policy, many of which are controversial.For a list of the included essays nd links to the online text, click on the cover or OPINION in the navigation bar.
A short paperback and audiobook sampler containing essays from the three collections, offered for the benefit of people who don't read ebooks; the collections themselves are too long to be issued in paperback at reasonable prices. If you have the ebooks you don't need it, as there are no new essays in it. It has been limited to the maximum number of psges that will permit the lowest price Amazon allows for print-on-demand paperbacks, whiich covers the cost of printing and Amazon's cut. I haven't figured in any royalties, since the ebook edtions are free. Purchase paperback and/or audiobook at Amazon. CONTENTS
Reflections on Enchantress from the Stars (2017) Perspective on the Future: The Quest of Space Age Young People (1972) Faith as the Focus of Children of the Star (1972, 2017) Update on the Critical Stage: The Far Side of Evil's Relevance Today (2017) A Response to Some Reactions to Journey Between Worlds (2015) Space and Human Survival (1994) Breaking Out from Earth's Shell (2019) Why There Will Never Be an Interplanetary War (2019) The Role of Psi in Human Affairs (2017) The Roots of Disbelief in Human Mind Powers (2020) Transhumanism Is a Dead End (2017) Why I Don't Read Much Science Fiction (2020)
Selected Essays on Enchantress from the Stars and More: A Sampler