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Title: THE ASTOUNDING ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION
By: David Langford, Pat Mills (Foreword), Dave Golder
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 1786645270
ISBN 13: 9781786645272
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Publisher: FLAME TREE PUBLISHING
Pub. date: 16 September, 2017
Series: Inspirations & Techniques
Pages: 192
Description: A truly astonishing, illustrated history of Science fiction, covering fantasy, and horror, with forays into crime, mystery and the gothic. From Frankenstein to Pulp Magazines, Twilight Zone to Stranger Things the book charts the incredible story of Sci-Fi through timelines, illustrations, movie posters and stills. Online links and free texts.
Synopsis: A truly astonishing, illustrated history of Science fiction, covering fantasy, and horror, with forays into crime, mystery and the gothic. Using timelines, online links, illustrations, posters, movie stills, book covers, and more, this amazing new book propels us into the well of modern imagination, from its roots in Frankenstein, through Verne, H.G. Wells, the late gothic and weird horror of Lovecraft to the mass market sensationalism of the Pulp magazines. The Pulps then invoked a new generation of writers (such as Ray Bradbury and Robert Bloch) of the Golden Age before many transitioned to screenwriting for the movies and early TV (Psycho, Star Trek, Twilight Zone), inspiring, in turn, the invasion of superheroes, gigantic spaceships, and dystopian landscapes onto our data-streaming tablets and computers. The book explores the interplay between great writers, (Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke) and story-telling directors (Kubrick, James Cameron, Ridley Scott, Christopher Nolan, George Lucas) who create powerful Sci-Fi, reflecting and challenging the developments of technology, science and society. Each have played a major role in this all-consuming, speculative form of world-building, from its early manifestation as a shocking literary event, to the mass market sensation is today.
Illustrations: 170 Illustrations, color
Publication: UK
Imprint: Flame Tree Publishing
Returns: Returnable
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