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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Alternate worlds
    sub title: the illustrated history of science fiction
  name:
    name part: Gunn, James E.
    name part: 1923-2020
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Asimov, Isaac
    name part: 1920-1992
    role:
      role term: writer of introduction.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: Third edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 304 pages, 24 pages of color plates : illustrations ; 26 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: James Gunn ; with an Introduction by Isaac Asimov.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    topic: Science fiction
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PN3433.5 .G856 2018
  classification: 809.3/8762
  identifier: 9781476673530
  identifier: 1476673535
  identifier: 2018030558
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180708
    record change date: 20210327063359.0
    record identifier: in00004003265