TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rottensteiner,Franz
TI  - The science fiction book: an illustrated history 
T2  - A Continuum book
SN  - 0816491690 :
AV  - PN3448.S45 R65 1975b
U1  - 823/.0876 
PY  - 1975///
CY  - New York
PB  - Seabury Press
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-158); 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 --; ... and; two Hungarians --; To Barsoom! The sf work of Edgar Rice Burroughs --; The tales of Abraham Merritt --; Robots; ... and; 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 --; ... and; 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 ... --; and; 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
UR  - http://www.archive.org/details/sciencefictionbo00rott
UR  - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL5423822M
ER  -