History of Science Fiction

[Werner Presber]

"History of Science Fiction" is a graphic chronology that maps the  
literary genre from its nascent roots in mythology and fantastic  
stories to the somewhat calcified post-Star Wars space opera epics of  
today. The movement of years is from left to right, tracing the  
figure of a tentacled beast, derived from H.G. Wells' War of the  
Worlds Martians. Science Fiction is seen as the offspring of the  
collision of the Enlightenment (providing science) and Romanticism,  
which birthed gothic fiction, source of not only SciFi, but crime  
novels, horror, westerns, and fantasy (all of which can be seen  
exiting through wormholes to their own diagrams, elsewhere). Science  
fiction progressed through a number of distinct periods, which are  
charted, citing hundreds of the most important works and authors.  
Film and television are covered as well.



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