The History of Science Fiction

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ISBN: 9780230546912 | 0230546919
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 11/15/2007

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The first comprehensive critical history of the origins and development of science fiction for thirty years,The Palgrave History of Science Fictionexplores the genre from an international perspective and in depth. It covers SF from the ancient Greeks, through the rebirth of the genre at the Reformation, with detailed coverage of eighteenth- and nineteenth- century science fiction, and a wide-ranging account of twentieth-century sci-fi in book, film, televisual and comic book forms, concluding with an account of the current state of the genre.

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Introduction: Defining SF
Origins
The Seventeenth-Century
The Eighteenth-Century
Early Nineteenth-Century
Late Nineteenth-Century
Wells and Verne
Early Twentieth-Century I: 'Pulp'
Early Twentieth-Century II: 'High-brow'
Golden Age SF. 1940-1960
1960s Counter-Culture
'New Wave' SF 1960s and 1970s
Cyberpunk and the 1980s
Visual SF 1967-2000
Non Anglo-American SF
SF in the 1990s
Coda: the current state of the genre
Index
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