Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology - Hardcover

Rabkin, Eric S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195032713 ISBN 13: 9780195032710

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1983

Synopsis

Science fiction stories dealing with the effects of technology on civilization include authors ranging from Jonathan Swift and Nathaniel Hawthorne to Isaac Asimov and Harlan Ellison

About this title

From the Back Cover:

An invaluable contribution to the serious study of science fiction as well as a vastly entertaining collection, Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology displays the variety and richness of a genre that now speaks, in one way or another, to everyone.

Review:

"The book contains excellent representative selections for the introduction to each time period.... Excellent."--Thomas Mullen, Slippery Rock College

"A great collection of literature in the field!"--Harvey Solganick, LeTourneau University

"Exactly what its title proposes, a historical anthology with excellent sense guiding the selections."--Rosemarie Arbur, Lehigh University

"A good combination of scholarship [and] readability. The best in its field."--Mariel Strauss, North Seattle Community College

"An excellent book. No other anthology of science fiction covers so broad a historical range of material....The best historical collection of science fiction to date."--Mark Rose, University of California, Santa Barbara

"A splendid introduction to science fiction: the selections are exemplary and so are the introductions to them."--Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania

"A useful volume, solid, thorough, sensible."--George Girella, University of Rochester

"This is a type of historical anthology that I had often thought of putting together myself, but somebody else did. Splendid!"--Dr. Abul Kalam, Community College of Denver

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0195032713
• ISBN 13: 9780195032710
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 540