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Alternate Worlds

The Illustrated History of Science Fiction, 3d ed.

James Gunn author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:McFarland & Co Inc

Published:24th Aug '18

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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.

“Excellent”—ARBA; “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.

ISBN: 9781476673530

Dimensions: 254mm x 178mm x 17mm

Weight: 608g

336 pages