History of Science Fiction

[Joe Allonby]

I think I just had some kind of geek seizure looking at/reading it.

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Werner Presber <wernerpresber at yahoo.de> wrote:
> "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.
>
> http://www.wardshelley.com/paintings/pages/HistoryofScienceFiction.html