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The history of science fiction / Adam Roberts

By: Series: Palgrave histories of literaturePublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Edition: Second editionDescription: xxii, 524 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781137569592
  • 1137569565
  • 9781137569561
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 809.3/8762 23
LOC classification:
  • PN3433.8 .R56 2016
Contents:
Summary: 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

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

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