TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roberts,Adam
TI  - The history of science fiction
T2  - Palgrave histories of literature
SN  - 9781137569592
AV  - PN3433.8 .R56 2016
U1  - 809.3/8762 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - London
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - fast
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -