Overview
- Written by a very well-known SF author, Guardian writer and recent winner of the BSF award
- Provides a much-needed update to one of the touchstone texts in the field, including a new chapter on 21st century science fiction
- Encompasses film and media studies as well as literary studies
Part of the book series: Palgrave Histories of Literature (Palgrave Histories of Literature)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
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Reviews
“This immensely readable critical survey combines a strong thesis with engaged, provocative and often highly original accounts of an astonishing range and variety of texts. Now thoroughly revised and updated, it makes an indispensable contribution to literary history.” (Patrick Parrinder, Emeritus Professor, University of Reading, UK)
“The revised edition of Professor Roberts's History of Science Fiction is a truly comprehensive history of European and American SF. The second edition preserves most of the major arguments and interpretations from the first, and adds a wealth of new material. This is likely to become the standard work in the field.” (Lewis W. Call, author of “BDSM in American Science Fiction and Fantasy”)
“Roberts’s deft anatomisation of the evolution of science fiction, from deep roots in Ancient Greek literature to its present preeminence in popular culture, is remarkably wide-ranging and marvellously detailed. A meticulous, entertaining, essential critical resource.” (Paul McAuley, author of “Fairyland, The Quiet War, and Into Everywhere”)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The History of Science Fiction
Authors: Adam Roberts
Series Title: Palgrave Histories of Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56957-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56956-1Published: 23 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56959-2Published: 22 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56957-8Published: 04 August 2016
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXII, 524
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literary History, Fiction, North American Literature, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature