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the illustrated history of science fiction
vii, 304 pages, 24 pages of color plates : illustrations ; 26 cm.
As a literature of change, science fiction has become increasingly 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 myriad ways, incorporating its visions in products, visual media and huge conventions.
The shape of the present -- In the beginning -- Toward Verne: 1800-1885 -- A Victorian engineer: 1828-1905 -- The birth of the mass magazines: 1885-1911 -- Prophet of progress: 1866-1946 -- The rise of the pulps: 1911-1926 -- That amazing decade: 1926-1936 -- The expanding universe: 1930-1940 -- The astounding editor: 1938-1950 -- The big boom: 1940-1955 -- Alternate worlds: 1949-1965 -- The shape of things to come -- The shape of things that came: 1975-2016.
James Gunn ; with an Introduction by Isaac Asimov.