The History of Science Fiction

Abstract

Preface vii 1. Definitions 1 2. Science Fiction and the Ancient Novel 21 Interlude: AD 4001600 32 3. Seventeenth-Century Science Fiction 36 4. Eighteenth-Century Science Fiction 64 5. Early Nineteenth-Century Science Fiction 88 6. Science Fiction 18501900 106 7. Jules Verne and H. G. Wells 129 8. The Early Twentieth Century: High Modernist Science Fiction 156 9. Early Twentieth-Century Science Fiction: The Pulps 173 10. Golden Age Science Fiction 19401960 195 11. The Impact of New Wave Science Fiction 1960s1970s 230 12. Science Fiction Screen Media 19602000: Hollywood Cinema and Television 264 13. Prose Science Fiction 1970s1990s 295 14. Late Twentieth-Century Science Fiction: Multimedia, Visual Science Fiction and Others 326 Postscript: Twenty-First-Century Science Fiction 341 Chronology of Key Titles in Science Fiction and Developments