Rottensteiner, Franz. The science fiction book : : an illustrated history / [electronic resource] / Franz Rottensteiner.. — New York : : Seabury Press,, c1975.. — 160 p. : : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. — (A Continuum book).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-158).

... and ... and ... and and : Introduction -- : Setting the patterns: H.G. Wells -- : Fantasies of flight -- : The modern Prometheus: Frankenstein, Mr. Hyde, and Dr. Moreau -- : The invasion from Mars -- : Dime novels and pulp heros -- : Cyrnao de Bergerac: journeys to the moon -- : The father of science fiction: Hugo Grensback -- : Tsiolkovsky, the Russian father of rocketry -- : two Hungarians -- : To Barsoom! The sf work of Edgar Rice Burroughs -- : The tales of Abraham Merritt -- : Robots ... : golems -- : Space-time jugglers: E.E. Smith and others -- : Elder gods and eldritch horror: H.P. Lovecraft -- : The guru of the engineering mind: John W. Campbell, Jr. -- : The golden age of sf -- : Living suns and sentient planets: Stapledon and Lewis -- : The French father of science fiction: Jules Verne -- : The mysterious Captain Nemo -- : A world in the moon: precursors of sf -- : Two moon journeys: Verne and Wells -- : Into a hollow earth -- : Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics -- : still more robots -- : Lost worlds: Arthur Conan Doyle -- : Cosmic forces and messages of salvation -- : Big Brother is watching you: anti-utopia -- : The illustrator of worlds to come: Albert Robida -- : Verisimilitude in science fiction: Edgar Allan Poe -- : The work of Robert A. Heinlein -- : A Pole on the moon -- : Ray Bradbury and the lost voice of childhood -- : The fabulous art of Hannes Bok -- : 2001 - a space odyssey -- : Buck Rogers, Superman, et al. -- : Secondary universes and magic lands -- : First contact: forms of life in outer space -- : Why there is no sex in science fiction -- : Sf on TV -- : Science fiction in the Soviet Union -- : The literature of cataclysm -- : The "new wave" -- : Hard sf -- : Sf achievements in ... -- : France ... -- : Japan ... -- : Italy, Spain, Rumania ... -- : Germany -- : A joyfully mad cosmos: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- : Stanislaw Lem, the greatest contemporary sf writer -- : Some other sf authors -- : Sf fandom -- : Chronology of science fiction -- : Bibliography -- : Nebula Awards -- : Hugo Awards.



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Science fiction--History and criticism.

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