The History Of Science Fiction
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| Author | : Adam Roberts |
| Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016-08-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9781137569592 |
This book is the definitive critical history of science fiction. The 2006 first edition of this work traced the development of the genre from Ancient Greece and the European Reformation through to the end of the 20th century. This new 2nd edition has been revised thoroughly and very significantly expanded. An all-new final chapter discusses 21st-century science fiction, and there is new material in every chapter: a wealth of new readings and original research. The author’s groundbreaking thesis that science fiction is born out of the 17th-century Reformation is here bolstered with a wide range of new supporting material and many hundreds of 17th- and 18th-century science fiction texts, some of which have never been discussed before. The account of 19th-century science fiction has been expanded, and the various chapters tracing the twentieth-century bring in more writing by women, and science fiction in other media including cinema, TV, comics, fan-culture and other modes.
| Author | : Xavier Dollo |
| Publisher | : Humanoids, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 203 |
| Release | : 2021-11-23 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : 164337947X |
Journey through time and space with this graphic novel history of the science fiction genre.
| Author | : A. Roberts |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2005-11-28 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0230554652 |
The History of Science Fiction traces the origin and development of science fiction from Ancient Greece up to the present day. The author is both an academic literary critic and acclaimed creative writer of the genre. Written in lively, accessible prose it is specifically designed to bridge the worlds of academic criticism and SF fandom.
| Author | : Gerry Canavan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2018-12-31 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1316733017 |
The first science fiction course in the American academy was held in the early 1950s. In the sixty years since, science fiction has become a recognized and established literary genre with a significant and growing body of scholarship. The Cambridge History of Science Fiction is a landmark volume as the first authoritative history of the genre. Over forty contributors with diverse and complementary specialties present a history of science fiction across national and genre boundaries, and trace its intellectual and creative roots in the philosophical and fantastic narratives of the ancient past. Science fiction as a literary genre is the central focus of the volume, but fundamental to its story is its non-literary cultural manifestations and influence. Coverage thus includes transmedia manifestations as an integral part of the genre's history, including not only short stories and novels, but also film, art, architecture, music, comics, and interactive media.
| Author | : Eric S. Rabkin |
| Publisher | : Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 548 |
| Release | : 1983-09-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780195032727 |
Presents a chronological survey of this genre from the beginnings of modern science and technology to the present.
| Author | : Brian Wilson Aldiss |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 1973 |
| Genre | : Science fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780552098052 |
Discusses the works of Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Lucian, H.G. Wells, John W. Campbell, and others from Victorian times to the present.
| Author | : Mark Bould |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2011-02-23 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1136820418 |
The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction provides students with an accessible overview of the genre that explores how it emerged through competing, multifarious versions and the struggle to define its limits. Discussing the place of key works and looking forward to the future of the genre, this book is the ideal starting point for students and all those seeking a better understanding of science fiction.
| Author | : L. Ron Hubbard |
| Publisher | : Galaxy Press LLC |
| Total Pages | : 1578 |
| Release | : 2016-06-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1592123422 |
Sadistic Aliens... ...Man is an endangered species. Is it the end of the world or the rebirth of a new one? In the year A.D. 3000, Earth is a dystopian wasteland. The great cities stand crumbling as a brutal reminder of what we once were. When the Psychlos invaded, all the world’s armies mustered little resistance against the advanced alien weapons. Now, the man animals serve one purpose. Do the Psychlos’ bidding or face extinction. One man, Jonnie Goodboy Tyler, has a plan. They must learn about the Psychlos and their weapons. He needs the other humans to follow him. And that may not be enough. Can he outwit his Psychlo captor, Terl? The fate of the Galaxy lies on the Battlefield of Earth. Get it now. “Pulse-pounding mile-a-minute sci-fi action-adventure that does not stop. It is a masterpiece of popular adventure science fiction.” —Brandon Sanderson “Battlefield Earth is like a 12-hour ‘Indiana Jones’ marathon. Non-stop and fast-paced. Every chapter has a big bang-up adventure.” —Kevin J. Anderson (co-author of the Dune Sagas) “Over 1,000 pages of thrills, spills, vicious aliens and noble humans. I found Battlefield Earth un-put-downable.” —Neil Gaiman
| Author | : Randall Frakes |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2018-05-15 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1683835905 |
This companion to the AMC’s mini-series features the full interviews plus essays by sci-fi insiders and rare concept art from Cameron’s archives. For the show, James Cameron personally interviewed six of the biggest names in science fiction filmmaking—Guillermo del Toro, George Lucas, Christopher Nolan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ridley Scott, and Steven Spielberg—to get their perspectives on the importance of the genre. This book reproduces the interviews in full as the greatest minds in the genre discuss key topics including alien life, time travel, outer space, dark futures, monsters, and intelligent machines. An in-depth interview with Cameron is also featured, plus essays by experts in the science fiction field on the main themes covered in the show. Illustrated with rare and previously unseen concept art from Cameron’s personal archives, plus imagery from iconic sci-fi movies, TV shows, and books, James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction offers a sweeping examination of a genre that continues to ask questions, push limits, and thrill audiences around the world.
| Author | : James Gunn |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2018-08-03 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1476633320 |
Alternate Worlds was first published in 1975 and became an instant classic, winning a Hugo award. This third edition brings the history of science fiction up to date, covering developments over the past forty years--a period that has seen the advent of technologies only imagined in the genre's Golden Age. As a literature of change, science fiction has become ever more meaningful, presaging dangers to humanity and, as Alvin Toffler wrote, guarding against "the premature arrival of the future." The world has begun to recognize science fiction in many different ways, incorporating its elements in products, visual media and huge conventions.
