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Half-title 3 Title 5 Copyright 6 CONTENTS 7 CONTRIBUTORS 10 FOREWORD 17 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 21 CHRONOLOGY 22 Introduction: reading science fiction 31 NOTES 41 1 THE HISTORY 43 1 Science fiction before the genre 45 The origins of science fiction 45 Experiments in science-fictional method 48 The evolution of scientific romance 52 Proliferation and diversification 56 2 The magazine era: 1926–1960 62 Origins of the science fiction magazine 62 Fictional formulas in the pulp magazines 64 Thought variants in the Campbell era 67 Science fiction for grown-ups: the 1950s 71 Emerging from the magazines 76 NOTES 77 3 New Wave and backwash: 1960–1980 78 The New Wave 79 Inner space 82 Entropy machines 86 Blending of new and old 89 The academy discovers sf 91 NOTES 92 4 Science fiction from 1980 to the present 94 NOTES 108 5 Film and television 109 Science fiction film: the first fifty years 109 The 1950s boom and after 115 Origins of TV sf 117 From the counter-culture to Star Wars 120 When it changed: Star Wars and after 121 NOTES 125 6 Science fiction and its editors 126 The magazines 127 The anthologists 132 The book editors 135 NOTE 139 2 CRITICAL APPROACHES 141 7 Marxist theory and science fict

Author

EDWARD JAMES AND FARAH MENDLESOHN (edt)

Language

EN

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Updated

2026-03-14