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The history of science fiction / Adam Roberts.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Palgrave histories of literaturePublication details: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.Description: xvii, 368 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0333970225
  • 9780333970225 (trade)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.38762 ROB 22
LOC classification:
  • PN3433.8 .R56 2006
Other classification:
  • 17.86
Contents:
Definitions -- Science fiction and the ancient novel, interlude: AD 400-1600 -- Seventeenth-century science fiction -- Eighteenth-century science fiction -- Early nineteenth-century science fiction -- Science fiction 1850-1900 -- Jules Verne and H.G. Wells -- The early twentieth century: high modernist science fiction -- Early twentieth-century science fiction: the pulps -- Golden age science fiction 1940-1960 -- The impact of new wave science fiction 1960s-1970s -- Science fiction screen media 1960-2000: Hollywood cinema and television -- Prose science fiction 1970's-1990s -- Late twentieth-century science fiction: multimedia, visual science fiction and others -- Postscript: twenty-first-century science fiction.
Summary: Traces the history of the science fiction genre from its origins in ancient Greece to the twenty-first century, covering literature, cinema, and television and highlighting influential trends, authors, works, and characters.
Holdings
Item type Home library Shelving location Call number Status Barcode
Book Book Lise Kütüphanesi / High School Library İngilizce Roman Dışı / English Non Fiction (HS) 809.38762 ROB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available T 315086

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Definitions -- Science fiction and the ancient novel, interlude: AD 400-1600 -- Seventeenth-century science fiction -- Eighteenth-century science fiction -- Early nineteenth-century science fiction -- Science fiction 1850-1900 -- Jules Verne and H.G. Wells -- The early twentieth century: high modernist science fiction -- Early twentieth-century science fiction: the pulps -- Golden age science fiction 1940-1960 -- The impact of new wave science fiction 1960s-1970s -- Science fiction screen media 1960-2000: Hollywood cinema and television -- Prose science fiction 1970's-1990s -- Late twentieth-century science fiction: multimedia, visual science fiction and others -- Postscript: twenty-first-century science fiction.

Traces the history of the science fiction genre from its origins in ancient Greece to the twenty-first century, covering literature, cinema, and television and highlighting influential trends, authors, works, and characters.

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