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The History of Science Fiction

:	Adam Roberts
:	The History of Science Fiction
:	Palgrave Macmillan
:	9781137569578
:	2
:	CHF 31.90
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:	Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
:	English

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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 many hundreds of 17th- and 18th-century science fiction texts, some of which have never been discussed before. The account of 19th-century science fiction has been expanded, and the various chapters tracing the twentieth-century bring in more writing by women, and science fiction in other media including cinema, TV, comics, fan-culture and other modes.

Adam Roberts is Professor of Nineteenth-century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, and has published extensively on science fiction and fantasy. He is also the author of sixteen SF novels, including the BSFA and Campbell award-winningJack Glass (2012). His most recent novel isThe Thing Itself (2015).

	Preface to Second Edition	6
	Preface to the First Edition (2006)	10
	Works Cited	20
	Contents	22
	chapter 1: Definitions	24
	Three Definitions	24
	The Scientific and the Technological I: The Scientific	28
	The Scientific and the Technological II: The Technological	33
	‘In Real Life’ and ‘in SF’	38
	Conclusion	41
	Notes	44
	Works Cited	45
	chapter 2: SF and the Ancient Novel	47
	The Ancient Cosmos	48
	Early Novels	51
	Conclusion	56
	Works Cited	56
	chapter 3: From Medieval Romance to Sixteenth-Century Utopia	58
	Sixteenth-Century Utopias	62
	Systematisation and the Material: 16th-Century Science	66
	Note	70
	Works Cited	70
	chapter 4: Seventeenth-Century SF	72
	The Copernican Cosmos and the Sense of Wonder	75
	17th-Century Science Fictional Prose Romances	77
	Kepler’s Somnium	78
	Interplanetary Travel	81
	Cyrano de Bergerac and the Plurality of Worlds	84
	Neo-Latin Writing	88
	Terrestrial Utopias	91
	Future Tales and Alternate History	95
	Developments in Science	99
	Works Cited	101
	chapter 5: Eighteenth-Century SF: Big, Little	105
	Swift’s Travels	112
	Little and Big: Voltaire’s Aliens	116
	18th-Century Voyages Extraordinaires	120
	Subterranean Adventures and Interplanetaries	122
	The 18th-Century Moon	128
	SF and Gothic Fiction	130
	Pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary SF	132
	Conclusion	135
	Notes	136
	Works Cited	137
	chapter 6: Early 19th-Century SF	140
	Visions of the Future and ‘Last Man’ Fictions	140
	Extraordinary Voyages and Automata	144
	Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818)	146
	SF of the 1820s and the 1830s	152
	Edgar Allan Poe	156
	Geoffroy and the Invention of Alternate History	162
	Notes	166
	Works Cited	167
	chapter 7: SF 1850–1900: Mobility and Mobilisation	169
	The 1850s	169
	Antigravity: Mobility’s Objective Correlative	173
	Contemporaries of Verne	175
	Mystical Science Fiction	179
	Future War and Invasion Fantasies: Militaristic Extrapolation	184
	Albert Robida	186
	Late Century Utopias	188
	L’Ève Future (1884): Edison’s Android	191
	Science Fiction in the 1890s	194
	‘Will’	196
	Notes	197
	Works Cited	198
	CHAPTER 8: Verne and Wells	201
	Verne	203
	Wells	217
	Works Cited	241
	CHAPTER 9: The Early 20th Century, 1: High Modernist SF	244
	Anti-machinists	249
	Mystical and Religious SF	255
	Zamiatin	258
	?apek and Bulgakov	259
	Stapledon	261
	High Modernism: Proust and Richardson	263
	Conclusion	266
	Works Cited	268
	CHAPTER 10: The Early 20th Century, 2: The Pulps	270
	Pulps	271
	The Magazine Era	277
	Edgar Rice Burroughs	281
	E E ‘Doc’ Smith	283
	European Pulps