The history of science fiction /
Adam Roberts.
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- xvii, 368 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Palgrave histories of literature .
- Palgrave histories of literature. .
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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Science fiction--History and criticism. Science-fiction--Histoire et critique. Science fiction--History and criticism. Science fiction.