The History of Science Fiction
By: by Adam Roberts
Edition: Second edition
Series: Palgrave histories of literature
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Aug 12, 2016
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9781137569592
Copyright date: 2016
Description: 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.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: Definitions
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: SF and the Ancient Novel
pagenum: 25; label: 3
title: From Medieval Romance to Sixteenth-Century Utopia
pagenum: 37; label: 4
title: Seventeenth-Century SF
pagenum: 51; label: 5
title: Eighteenth-Century SF: Big, Little
pagenum: 85; label: 6
title: Early Nineteenth-Century SF
pagenum: 121; label: 7
title: SF 1850-1900: Mobility and Mobilisation
pagenum: 151; label: 8
title: Verne and Wells
pagenum: 183; label: 9
title: The Early 20th Century, 1: High Modernist SF
pagenum: 227; label: 10
title: The Early 20th Century, 2:The Pulps
pagenum: 253; label: 11
title: Golden Age SF: 1940-1960
pagenum: 287; label: 12
title: The Impact of the New Wave: SF of the 1960s and 1970s
pagenum: 333; label: 13
title: SF Screen Media, 1960-2000: Hollywood Cinema and TV
pagenum: 383; label: 14
title: Prose SF of the 1980s and 1990s
pagenum: 421; label: 15
title: Late 20th Century SF: Multimedia, Visual SF and Others
pagenum: 463; label: 16
title: 21st Century Science Fiction
pagenum: 479; title: Index
pagenum: 513