Title: Science Fiction: Its Nature, Faults, and Virtues - Speech
Written: February 8, 1947  Pages: 270
 
Description:
File contains several drafts of mss for speech at University of Chicago, February 8, 1957. Published version, 1964. Letters about payment.
 
Publication: 
As lecture, about 10,000 words, given at University of Chicago on February 8, 1947; revised and published under its more familiar title in Basil Davenport, ed., The Science Fiction Novel: Imagination and Social Criticism in 1959 and reprinted in Turning Points: Essays on the Art of Science Fiction (ed. Damon Knight, Harper & Row, 1977).
 
Notes: Alternate title: “The Novel of Social Criticism and Imagination: What is Speculative Fiction?”Lecture for the University of ChicagoWorking titles: “Does Science Fiction Have Any Virtue?” and “The Modern Novel of Speculation and Social Criticism”