Science-Fiction The Early Years

Opens the field of premodern science fiction for the first time to readers, librarians, scholars. Includes summaries, bibliographies, previous publications, historical & critical comments on more than 3,000 short stories, novels & plays with SF elements, from earliest times to 1930, many of them rare, & most never described before. Also includes motif & thematic index, survey of important ideas & systems, & author, title, date, & magazine indexes. The introduction offers a new understanding of the nature of SF, its origins, & most important concepts.Bleiler, Everett F. is the author of 'Science-Fiction The Early Years' with ISBN 9780873384162 and ISBN 0873384164.