Science Fiction: A Literary History by Luckhurst, Roger

Science Fiction: A Literary History

Science fiction (SF) has existed as a popular genre for around 150 years. This book offers a...
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Author: Roger Luckhurst
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Science Fiction: A Literary History by Luckhurst, Roger

Science Fiction: A Literary History

$63.20

Science Fiction: A Literary History

$63.20
Author: Roger Luckhurst
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Science fiction (SF) has existed as a popular genre for around 150 years. This book offers a survey of the genre from 19th-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.

Author: Roger Luckhurst
Publisher: British Library
Published: 05/01/2018
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.76lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780712356923

About the Author
Roger Luckhurst is a professor of modern literature. His previous books include Late Victorian Gothic Tales, both The Shining and Alien in the BFI Film Classics series, Science Fiction: Cultural History of Literature, and Zombies: A Cultural History.


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