The history of science fiction
By: Adam Roberts
Series: Palgrave histories of literature
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780333970225
Subjects: Science fiction -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Definitions; title: Science fiction and the ancient novel, interlude: AD 400-1600; title: Seventeenth-century science fiction; title: Eighteenth-century science fiction; title: Early nineteenth-century science fiction; title: Science fiction 1850-1900; title: Jules Verne and H.G. Wells; title: The early twentieth century: high modernist science fiction; title: Early twentieth-century science fiction: the pulps; title: Golden age science fiction 1940-1960; title: The impact of new wave science fiction 1960s-1970s; title: Science fiction screen media 1960-2000: Hollywood cinema and television; title: Prose science fiction 1970's-1990s; title: Late twentieth-century science fiction: multimedia, visual science fiction and others; title: Postscript: twenty-first-century science fiction