TY - BOOK AU - Roberts,Adam TI - The history of science fiction T2 - Palgrave histories of literature SN - 0333970225 AV - PN3433.8 .R56 2006 U1 - 809.38762 ROB 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Basingstoke [England], New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Science fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Science-fiction KW - Histoire et critique KW - sears KW - gtt N1 - 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; Adult; Adult; Follett Library Resources N2 - 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 ER -