| Description |
160 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. |
| Series |
A Continuum book
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: p. 154-158. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Setting the patterns : H. G. Wells -- Fantasies of flight -- The modern Prometheus : Frankenstein, Mr. Hyde, and Dr. Moreau -- The invasion from Mars -- Dime novels and pulp heros -- Cyrnao de Bergerac : journeys to the moon -- The father of science fiction : Hugo Grensback -- Tsiolkovsky, the Russian father of rocketry -- ... and two Hungarians -- To Barsoom! The sf work of Edgar Rice Burroughs -- The tales of Abraham Merritt -- Robots ... and golems -- Space-time jugglers : E. E. Smith and others -- Elder gods and eldritch horror : H. P. Lovecraft -- The guru of the engineering mind : John W. Campbell, Jr. -- The golden age of sf -- Living suns and sentient planets : Stapledon and Lewis -- The French father of science fiction : Jules Verne -- The mysterious Captain Nemo -- A world in the moon : precursors of sf -- Two moon journeys : Verne and Wells -- Into a hollow earth -- Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics -- ... and still more robots -- Lost worlds : Arthur Conan Doyle -- Cosmic forces and messages of salvation -- Big Brother is watching you : anti-utopia -- The illustrator of worlds to come : Albert Robida -- Verisimilitude in science fiction : Edgar Allan Poe -- The work of Robert A. Heinlein -- A Pole on the moon -- Ray Bradbury and the lost voice of childhood -- The fabulous art of Hannes Bok -- 2001 - a space odyssey -- Buck Rogers, Superman, et al. -- Secondary universes and magic lands -- First contact : forms of life in outer space -- Why there is no sex in science fiction -- Sf on TV -- Science fiction in the Soviet Union -- The literature of cataclysm -- The "new wave" -- Hard sf -- Sf achievements in ... -- France ... -- Japan ... -- Italy, Spain, Rumania ... -- and Germany -- A joyfully mad cosmos : Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- Stanislaw Lem, the greatest contemporary sf writer -- Some other sf authors -- Sf fandom -- Chronology of science fiction -- Bibliography -- Nebula Awards -- Hugo Awards. |
| Subject |
Science fiction -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
0816491690 : $14.95 |
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