Roberts, Adam

The history of science fiction [[Book] /] Adam Roberts. - 1st.ed. - Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. - 368 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Palgrave histories of literature. .

Includes bibliographical references (pp. 346, 359) 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 -- Twenty-first-century science fiction. Postscript:.

All age.

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Science fiction--History and criticism.

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