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Publishing and the Science Fiction Canon

By Adam Roberts

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
1108708897, 9781108708890
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2143022 bytes)
Series
Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
Edition
1
Pages
90\92
Time added
2024-05-30 04:00:13

Description

Science fiction was being written throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but it underwent a rapid expansion of cultural dissemination and popularity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. This Element explores the ways this explosion in interest in 'scientific romance', that informs today's global science fiction culture, manifests the specific historical exigences of the revolutions in publishing and distribution technology. H. G. Wells, Jules Verne and other science fiction writers embody in their art the advances in material culture that mobilize, reproduce and distribute with new rapidity, determining the cultural logic of twentieth-century science fiction in the process.

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