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Author:	Robert Scholes
Co-authors:	Eric S. Rabkin
Title:	Science Fiction
Subtitle:	History • Science • Vision
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, Inc.
Country:	USA
Date:	1977
Format:	Paperback
Class Number:	809.3876
Genre:	Non-Fiction, Academia, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:	0192812211
Cat#:	386
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© 1977 by oxford university press, inc.
first published by oxford university press, new york, 1977
first issued as an oxford university press paperback, 1977
printed in the united states of america

by robert scholes, professor of english, brown university, and eric s. rabkin, professor of english, university of michigan, ann arbor

12 unnumbered pp including titles, indica, contents table, foreword by the authors + 260pp including four bibliographies, 14pp index = 270 pp
cover design by susan gebel
cover photograph © glen heller, 1976
an oxford paperback 386
£1.50 net in the u.k.

contents:

i. history

1. a brief literary history of science fiction:
the beginnings / the first century a.f. (after frankenstein) / h. g. wells / the twenties and thirties: a literary europe; a pulp america / anti-science fiction / the "golden age" and after / some achievements of the sixties / making waves and crossing lines

2. science fiction in other media

ii. science

3. the sciences of science fiction:
scientific method / physics and astronomy / computers / thermodynamics / biology / psychology / pseudoscience

iii. vision

4. forms and themes:
myth and myth-making / fantasy / utopias / imaginary worlds / imaginary beings / sex and race in science fiction

5. ten representative novels:

"frankenstein" (1818) / "20,000 leagues under the sea" (1870) / "the time machine" (1895) / "we" (1920) / "a voyage to arcturus" (1920) / "star maker" (1937) / "childhood's end" (1953) / "a canticle for leibowitz" (1959) / "the left hand of darkness" (1969) / "the shockwave rider"

bibliographies
index

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