A. Roberts, The Palgrave History of Science Fiction

Adam ROBERTS, The Palgrave History of Science Fiction

New York, Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave Histories of Literature), 2006, 392 p.

ISBN : 0-333-97022-5

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.

Adam Roberts is Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Table of contents:

Introduction: Defining SF

Origins 

The Seventeenth-Century

The Eighteenth-Century 

Early Nineteenth-Century 

Late Nineteenth-Century

Wells and Verne

Early Twentieth-Century I: 'Pulp' 

Early Twentieth-Century II: 'High-brow'

Golden Age SF. 1940-1960

1960s Counter-Culture

'New Wave' SF 1960s and 1970s

Cyberpunk and the 1980s

Visual SF 1967-2000

Non Anglo-American SF 

SF in the 1990s

Coda: the current state of the genre * Index