Science FictionISBN: 978-0-7456-2892-9
Hardcover
224 pages
May 2005, Polity
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Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
PART I. EMERGENCE, 1880-1945.
1. Conditions of Emergence.
2. Britain: The Scientific Romance and the Evolutionary Paradigm.
3. America: Pulp Fictions and the Engineer Paradigm.
PART II. ELABORATION, 1945-1959.
4. 1945: The Technocultural Conjuncture.
5. From Atomjocks to Cultural Critique: American SF, 1939-1959.
6. ‘All that Age, Horribly Dislocated’: England After 1945.
PART III. DECADE STUDIES.
7. The 1960s.
8. The 1970s.
9. The 1980s.
10. The 1990s.
Notes.
Selected Bibliography.
Index.