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The History of Science Fiction
Adam Roberts
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Description for The History of Science Fiction
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Histories of Literature. Num Pages: 546 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 236 x 36. Weight in Grams: 816.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Palgrave Histories of Literature
Condition
New
Number of Pages
524
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137569592
SKU
V9781137569592
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99-15
About Adam Roberts
Adam Roberts is Professor of Nineteenth-century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is also the author of more than a dozen science fiction novels: his most recent, Jack Glass (2012) won the BSFA and Campbell awards for the year's best science fiction novel. He has published a number of critical and academic works on science fiction, 19th-century ... Read more
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