Billion year spree : the true history of science fiction
Introduction -- The Origins of the Species: / "A Clear-Sighted, Sickly Literature": / Pilgrim Fathers: / The Gas-Enlightened Race: / The Man Who Could Work Miracles: / The Flight from Urban Culture: / To Barsoom and Beyond: / In the Name of the Zeitgeist: / The Future on a Chipped Plate: / After the Impossible Happened: / The Stars My Detestation: / ENVOI -- CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Aldiss, Brian W. (Brian Wilson), 1925-
Mary Shelley -- Edgar Allan Poe -- LUCIAN AND ALL THAT -- VICTORIAN VISIONS -- H.G.WELLS -- WELLS' COEVALS -- ERB and the Weirdies -- MAINLY THE THIRTIES -- THE WORLD OF JOHN W. CAMPBELL'S "ASTOUNDING" -- THE FIFTIES AND ONWARDS, AND UPWARDS -- YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW --
Brian W. Aldiss.
Billion year spree : the true history of science fiction
