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This is the definitive critical history of science fiction. This new second edition has been revised thoroughly and very significantly expanded. All all-new final chapter discusses 21st-century science fiction, and there is new material in every chapter: a wealth of new readings and original research. The author's thesis that science fiction is born out of the 17th-century Reformation is here bolstered with a wide range of new supporting material and many hundreds of 17th- and 18th-century science fiction texts, some of which have never been discussed before. The account of 19th-century science fiction has been expanded, and the various chapters tracing the 20th-century bring in more writing by women, and science fiction in other media including cinema, TV, comics, fan culture and other modes.

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Subjects
Science fiction, history and criticism, Science fiction, History and criticism, Science-fiction, Histoire et critique, Science-Fiction-Literatur, Non-fiction, Literature, Science fiction criticism

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Table of Contents

1. Definitions Page 1 2. SF and the Ancient Novel Page 25 3. From Medieval Romance to Sixteenth-Century Utopia Page 37 4. Seventeenth-Century SF Page 51 5. Eighteenth-Century SF: Big, Little Page 85 6. Early Nineteenth-Century SF Page 121 7. SF 1850-1900: Mobility and Mobilisation Page 151 8. Verne and Wells Page 183 9. The Early 20th Century, 1: High Modernist SF Page 227 10. The Early 20th Century, 2:The Pulps Page 253 11. Golden Age SF: 1940-1960 Page 287 12. The Impact of the New Wave: SF of the 1960s and 1970s Page 333 13. SF Screen Media, 1960-2000: Hollywood Cinema and TV Page 383 14. Prose SF of the 1980s and 1990s Page 421 15. Late 20th Century SF: Multimedia, Visual SF and Others Page 463 16. 21st Century Science Fiction Page 479 Index Page 513

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Series
Palgrave histories of literature
Copyright Date
2016

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PN1-PN6790, PN3433.8 .R56 2016

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xxii, 524p
Number of pages
548

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Open Library
OL27048537M
Internet Archive
historyofscience0000robe_p9l5
ISBN 10
113756959X
ISBN 13
9781137569592
LCCN
2016948712
OCLC/WorldCat
939532182

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