Science Fiction: The Illustrated EncyclopediaCovering the history of the genre in all its forms, and lavishly illustrated with images from books, films, magazines, comics, and graphic novels, science fiction: The illustrated encyclopedia presents one-of-a-kind, decade-by-decade time charts with fascinating insight into the historical influences that shaped the science fiction of each period. You will see how excitement about the potential of 20th-century America inspired elaborate cityshapes in the art of the 1900s, travel into the future with the artists of the 1920s, watch humanity's ride into space through the eyes of science fiction, be drawn into the visions engendered by the invention of the A-bomb, and see what today's writers and artists prophesy in our digitized future. |
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A DORLING KINDERSLEY BOOK | 6 |
THE FUTURE OF THE CITY | 12 |
BRIGHT DREAMS 18 THE 1940S THE ATOMIC AGE | 20 |
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