Science fiction : a literary history /
Science fiction 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 science fiction across the world, before examining the emergence of the 'scientific roma...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
British Library,
[2017]
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| Summary: | Science fiction 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 science fiction across the world, before examining the emergence of the 'scientific romance' in the 1880s and 1890s. The 'Golden Age' of writers' expansive science fiction 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 science fiction took from the 1950s onwards. Leading international scholars, writing in an accessible style, consider science fiction 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0712356924 9780712356923 |