- Hardcover: 312 pages
- Publisher: Dorling Kindersley (1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0864388721
- ISBN-13: 978-0864388728
- ASIN: 0751302023
- Product Dimensions: 29.2 x 24.4 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 341,927 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Science fiction gives us different perspectives on our lives and the world, and allows us to escape from the present. For these reasons, the genre has attracted a huge and devoted audience worldwide. Dealing with the history of science fiction from its earliest beginnings to its latest developments, "The Encyclopaedia of Science Fiction" is a visual reference book on this subject. It shows how the future has been envisioned by science fiction writers and illustrators throughout the decades, and the influences that shaped their visions. It also traces the history of science fiction against the background of its times, through decade-by-decade time charts that cover books, magazines, films and historical events. Each chart is followed by a visual exploration of the major concerns of that decade.
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Superb encyclopedia of SF. A visual feast, especially for the fan of paperbacks; fantasy small press books such as Gnome; old SF classics. Good coverage of SF authors and their most famous works. If you want more details, more about sub genres, more about the authors, then the encyclopedia of science fiction is probably your best bet at 1200 pages or so, but for sheer visual information, this book is hard to beat.
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