Overview

Alternate Worlds was first published in 1975 and became an instant classic, winning a Hugo award. This third edition brings the history of science fiction up to date, covering developments over the past forty years--a period that has seen the advent of technologies only imagined in the genre's Golden Age. As a literature of change, science fiction has become ever more meaningful, presaging dangers to humanity and, as Alvin Toffler wrote, guarding against ""the premature arrival of the future."" The world has begun to recognize science fiction in many different ways, incorporating its elements in products, visual media and huge conventions.

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Author:   James Gunn
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Edition:   3rd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.608kg
ISBN:  

9781476673530

ISBN 10:   1476673535
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   24 August 2018
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Preface Science Fiction, I Love You (Isaac Asimov)  1. The Shape of the Present  2. In the Beginning  3. Toward Verne: 1800–1885 Between pages 50 and 51 are 8 color plates with 16 photographs  4. A Victorian Engineer: 1828–1905  5. The Birth of the Mass Magazines: 1885–1911  6. Prophet of Progress: 1866–1946  7. The Rise of the Pulps: 1911–1926  8. That Amazing Decade: 1926–1936  9. The Expanding Universe: 1930–1940 Between pages 144 and 145 are 16 color plates with 46 photographs 10. The Astounding Editor: 1938–1950 11. The Big Boom: 1940–1955 12. Alternate Worlds: 1949–1965 13. The Shape of Things to Come 14. The Shape of Things That Came: 1975–2016 Appendix 1: Science Fiction Themes Appendix 2: A Basic Science Fiction Libary Appendix 3: A Short History of Western Civilization, Science, Technology and Science Fiction Index

Reviews

From the first edition: Locus Award; Science Fiction Research Association's Pilgrim Award. Comprehensive, neatly balanced and lavishly illustrated...SF fans may never have had so thorough a tribute to their genre. --Publishers Weekly; an excellent, an intelligent, comprehensive, and above all objective history...a minor miracle --Science Fiction Review; The hundreds of photos of science fiction writers and the equally large number of reproductions of covers from the pulp magazines make it a treasure. --Jackson Sun; Gunn gives the history of sf according to Verne, Wells and Campbell. And he does so brilliantly, in a study that will long remain the voice for the so-called 'hard concept of sf.' --Extrapolation.

Author Information

The late James Gunn was emeritus professor of English at the University of Kansas and the author or editor of 45 books and 100+ short stories. A former president of both the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the Science Fiction Research Association, he received their lifetime awards and induction into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. He lived in Lawrence, Kansas.

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