The road to science fiction. 6. Around the worldJames Gunn The stories we tell are not limited to monsters and harsh otherworlds. Yet the fiction books in the Borealis imprint certainly belong to a world other than our own. This line encompasses our science fiction, fantasy and horror novels and anthologies. The Road to Science Fiction makes a circuit of the Earth in Volume 6, subtitled Around the World. In its first four volumes, this much-praised historical anthology series traced the way in which the earliest forms of fantastic fiction developed into what we know as science fiction today. Volume 5 described the somewhat different approaches taken by British science fiction. Now, Volume 6 looks at science fiction in a dozen foreign countries and offers a rich variety of stories from...around the world. |
