The Astounding Illustrated History of Science Fiction

Author(s): Jess Nevins

Nature & Science

A truly astonishing, illustrated history of Science fiction, covering fantasy, and horror, with forays into crime, mystery and the gothic. Using timelines, online links, illustrations, posters, movie stills, book covers, and more, this amazing new book propels us into the well of modern imagination, from its roots in Frankenstein, through Verne, H.G. Wells, the late gothic and weird horror of Lovecraft to the mass market sensationalism of the Pulp magazines. The Pulps then invoked a new generation of writers (such as Ray Bradbury and Robert Bloch) of the Golden Age before many transitioned to screenwriting for the movies and early TV (Psycho, Star Trek, Twilight Zone), inspiring, in turn, the invasion of superheroes, gigantic spaceships, and dystopian landscapes onto our data-streaming tablets and computers. The book explores the interplay between great writers, (Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke) and story-telling directors (Kubrick, James Cameron, Ridley Scott, Christopher Nolan, George Lucas) who create powerful Sci-Fi, reflecting and challenging the developments of technology, science and society. Each have played a major role in this all-consuming, speculative form of world-building, from its early manifestation as a shocking literary event, to the mass market sensation is today.

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Introduced by David Langford, writer, critic, editor, publisher, SF fan, and recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing.

General Fields

  • : 9781786645272
  • : Flame Tree Publishing
  • : Flame Tree Publishing
  • : 1.826
  • : August 2017
  • : 28.90 cmmm X 27.90 cmmm X 2.20 cmmm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : November 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 170 Illustrations, color
  • : 170 Illustrations, color
  • : 192
  • : 809.38762
  • : en
  • : New edition
  • : Hardback
  • : Jess Nevins