— James Gunn has the credentials: author of ten books and some seventy-five stories, with a television series and a m... more »ovie adapted from a novel--and a former president of the Science Fiction Writers of America. BREAKING POINT is a kind of retrospective--eight stories through which "interested readers may note the evolution of a writer."
Gunn writes that these are his "attempts to bring to the task of telling a science fiction story everything I knew about setting and symbol, theme and character." There are "stories about character--about beings in unusual circumstances facing difficult choices, pushed to the point where they must bend or break."
Gunn notes that the latest generation of science fiction writers "had grown up reading science fiction, but they also knew literature and the humanities and they wanted to write stories and novels which met the critical standards of the main-stream."