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.
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