In what N. Katherine Hayles describes as "this enormously ambitious
posthumous volume," renowned scholar George Slusser offers a
definitive version of the argument about the history of science
fiction that he developed throughout his career: that several
important ideas and texts, routinely overlooked in other critical
studies, made significant contributions to the creation of modern
science fiction as it developed into a truly global literature. He
explores how key thinkers like Rene Descartes, Benjamin Constant,
Thomas DeQuincey, Guy du Maupassant, J.D. Bernal, and Ralph Waldo
Emerson influenced and are reflected in twentieth-century science
fiction stories from the United States, Great Britain, France,
Germany, Poland, and Russia. The conclusion begins with Slusser's
overview of global science fiction in the twenty-first century and
discusses recent developments in countries like China, Romania, and
Israel. Hayles's foreword provides a useful summation of the book's
contents, while science fiction writer Gregory Benford contributes
an afterword providing a personal perspective on the life and
thoughts of his longtime friend. The book was edited by Slusser's
former colleague Gary Westfahl, a distinguished scholar in his own
right.
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