The history of science fiction / Adam Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Adam (Adam Charles), author.

Series:

Palgrave histories of literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction--History and criticism.

Science fiction.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxii, 524 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Definitions

SF and the ancient novel

From Medieval romance to sixteenth-century utopia

Seventeenth-century SF

Eighteenth-century SF: big, little

Early 19th-century SF

SF 1850-1900: mobility and mobilisation

Verne and Wells

The early 20th century, 1: high modernist SF

The early 20th century, 2: the pulps

Golden Age SF: 1940-1960

The impact of the New Wave: SF of the 1960s and 1970s

SF screen media, 1960-2000: Hollywood cinema and TV

Prose SF of the 1980s and 1990s

Late 20th century SF: Multimedia, visual SF and others

21st-century science fiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1137569565

9781137569561

OCLC:

939532182