A meticulous, entertaining, essential critical resource. “Roberts’s deft anatomisation of the evolution of science fiction, from deep roots in Ancient Greek literature to its present preeminence in popular culture, is remarkably wide-ranging and marvellously detailed. Call, author of “BDSM in American Science Fiction and Fantasy”) This is likely to become the standard work in the field.” (Lewis W. In essence, he reviews various critics’ attempts to describe what science fiction is, but then points out that those definitions are widely debated. Approaching a subject as tricksy as science fiction, Roberts, quite rightly, begins his history with definitions. The second edition preserves most of the major arguments and interpretations from the first, and adds a wealth of new material. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 548 pages. “The revised edition of Professor Roberts's History of Science Fiction is a truly comprehensive history of European and American SF. 'Adam Roberts' 'History' is the most significant history of the genre since The Trillion Year Spree by Brian Aldiss and David Wingrove, published nearly two decades ago, and demonstrates the most original thinking about science fiction since Kingsley Amis's New Maps of Hell more than forty years ago. Now thoroughly revised and updated, it makes an indispensable contribution to literary history.” (Patrick Parrinder, Emeritus Professor, University of Reading, UK) “This immensely readable critical survey combines a strong thesis with engaged, provocative and often highly original accounts of an astonishing range and variety of texts. In this landmark volume, Adam Roberts has created what will undoubtedly be regarded as the definitive history of science fiction for many years to come.
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