Science fiction : a literary history / edited by Roger Luckhurst.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.

Luckhurst, Roger, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction--History and criticism.

Science fiction.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : British Library, 2017.

Summary:

Science fiction (SF) has existed as a popular genre for around 150 years. This book offers a survey of the genre from nineteenth-century pioneers to contemporary authors, introducing the plural versions of early SF across the world, before examining the emergence of the 'scientific romance' in the 1880s and 1890s. The 'Golden Age' of writers' expansive SF pulp was concentrated in the 1930s, consolidated by best-selling writers like Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein. The contributors to this volume also track the increasingly diverse forms SF took from the 1950s onwards. Leading international scholars, writing in an accessible style, consider SF as a 'world' literature, referencing works from diverse traditions in Latin America, Europe, Russia and the Far East. This book combines discussion of central figures of the tradition with a new global reach.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Beginnings: Early Forms of Science Fiction / Arthur B. Evans

ch. 2 From Scientific Romance to Science Fiction: 1870

1914 / Roger Luckhurst

ch. 3 Utopian Prospects, 1900

49 / Caroline Edwards

ch. 4 Pulp SF and its Others, 1918

39 / Mark Bould

ch. 5 After the War, 1945

65 / Malisa Kurtz

ch. 6 The New Wave `Revolution,' 1960

76 / Rob Latham

ch. 7 From the New Wave into the Twenty-First Century / Sherryl Vint

ch. 8 New Paradigms, After 2001 / Gerry Canavan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0712356924

9780712356923

OCLC:

986622611