The History of Science Fiction

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The first comprehensive critical history of the origins and development of science fiction for many decades, The Palgrave History of Science Fiction explores the genre from an international perspective and in depth. It covers SF from the ancient Greeks, through the rebirth of the genre at the Reformation, with detailed coverage of eighteenth- and nineteenth- century science fiction, and a wide-ranging account of twentieth-century sci-fi in book, film, televisual and comic book forms, concluding with an account of the current state of the genre. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 1 Definitions......Page 20 2 Science Fiction and the Ancient Novel......Page 40 Interlude: AD 400–1600......Page 51 3 Seventeenth-Century Science Fiction......Page 55 4 Eighteenth-Century Science Fiction......Page 83 5 Early Nineteenth-Century Science Fiction......Page 107 6 Science Fiction 1850–1900......Page 125 7 Jules Verne and H. G. Wells......Page 148 8 The Early Twentieth Century: High Modernist Science Fiction......Page 175 9 Early Twentieth-Century Science Fiction: The Pulps......Page 192 10 Golden Age Science Fiction 1940–1960......Page 214 11 The Impact of New Wave Science Fiction 1960s–1970s......Page 249 12 Science Fiction Screen Media 1960–2000: Hollywood Cinema and Television......Page 283 13 Prose Science Fiction 1970s–1990s......Page 314 14 Late Twentieth-Century Science Fiction: Multimedia, Visual Science Fiction and Others......Page 345 Postscript: Twenty-First-Century Science Fiction......Page 360 Chronology of Key Titles in Science Fiction and Developments in Science......Page 365 Notes......Page 370 Further Reading......Page 378 B......Page 379 C......Page 380 F......Page 381 I......Page 382 L......Page 383 P......Page 384 S......Page 385 V......Page 386 Z......Page 387