Dowling, Terry, ed., The Essential Ellison: A Fifty-Year Retrospective, Morpheus International, 2000.

This comprehensive volume provides an overview of Ellison's prolific writing career, beginning in 1949. Because it contains both fiction and nonfiction in its twelve hundred pages, it is an excellent resource for students of Ellison's work.

Friedman, Norman, The Fifty-Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War, United Sates Naval Institute, 1999.

In this historical overview, Friedman reviews the events leading up to, during, and ending the Cold War in a way that demonstrates how they are interrelated. The bulk of his analysis is spent on the 1950s and 1960s, although significant occurrences in the 1980s and early 1990s are also discussed.

Roberts, Garyn G., ed., The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Prentice Hall, 2000.

This anthology combines the works of many of the foremost authors of science fiction, such as Jules Verne, Ray...