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The history of science fiction /

Roberts, Adam

The history of science fiction / Adam Roberts - Second edition - xxii, 524 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm - Palgrave histories of literature . - Palgrave histories of literature .

Includes bibliographical references and index

Definitions -- SF and the ancient novel -- From Medieval romance to sixteenth-century utopia -- Seventeenth-century SF -- Eighteenth-century SF: big, little -- Early 19th-century SF -- SF 1850-1900: mobility and mobilisation -- Verne and Wells -- The early 20th century, 1: high modernist SF -- The early 20th century, 2: the pulps -- Golden Age SF: 1940-1960 -- The impact of the New Wave: SF of the 1960s and 1970s -- SF screen media, 1960-2000: Hollywood cinema and TV -- Prose SF of the 1980s and 1990s -- Late 20th century SF: Multimedia, visual SF and others -- 21st-century science fiction

Thorough revision and expansion of the first edition, tracing the development of the genre from Ancient Greece and the European Reformation through to the end of the 20th century, with a new chapter discussing 21st-century science fiction and new material in every chapter

9781137569592 1137569565 9781137569561

2016948712


Science fiction--History and criticism


Criticism, interpretation, etc.

PN3433.8 / .R56 2016

809.3/8762

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