History of Science Fiction

Name: History of Science Fiction
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ISBN: 9780230546912

ISBN-10: 0230546919

ISBN-13: 9780230546912

Edition: 2006

Authors: Adam Roberts

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The first comprehensive critical history of SF for thirty years, this book traces the origin and development of science fiction from Ancient Greece, via its rebirth in the seventeenth century, up to the present day. Concentrating on literary SF and (in the later chapters) cinema and TV, it also discusses the myriad forms this genre takes in the contemporary world, including a chapter on graphic novels, SF pop music, visual art and ufology. The author is ideally placed to write it: both an academic literary critic and also an acclaimed creative writer of science fiction, with five novels and many short stories to his credit. Written in lively, accessible prose, this study is specifically…

Book details

List price: $109.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 11/28/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.64" wide x 8.75" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.342



Introduction: Defining SF


Origins


The Seventeenth-Century


The Eighteenth-Century


Early Nineteenth-Century


Late Nineteenth-Century


Wells and Verne


Early Twentieth-Century I: 'Pulp'


Early Twentieth-Century II: 'High-brow'


Golden Age SF. 1940-1960


1960s Counter-Culture


'New Wave' SF 1960s and 1970s


Cyberpunk and the 1980s


Visual SF 1967-2000


Non Anglo-American SF


SF in the 1990s


Coda: the current state of the genre


Index