Science Fiction : A Literary History (9780712356923)

Science fiction (SF) 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 SF across the world, before examining the emergence of the 'scientific romance' in the 1880s and 1890s. The 'Golden Age' of writers' expansive SF 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 SF took from the 1950s onwards. Leading international scholars, writing in an accessible style, consider SF 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.

Product details

• Format Hardback | 224 pages
• Dimensions 155 x 229 x 27.94mm | 798.32g
• Publication date 01 May 2018
• Publisher British Library Publishing
• Imprint The British Library Publishing Division
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Illustrations note 40 black & white illustrations
• ISBN10 0712356924
• ISBN13 9780712356923
• Bestsellers rank 63,900

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