Score: 4. This edition, now available in paperback, has taken years to prepare and is much more than a simple updating. The world of science fiction in the s is much more complex than it was in the s. The advent of game worlds, shared worlds, graphic novels, film and TV spin-offs, technothrillers, SF horror and much more has meant that the book has been expanded dramatically to cope with the complexities and changes in the genre.
It now contains well over 4, entries - a staggering 1, more than the original - and, at 1. Written and compiled by a team of editors with unparalleled collective experience in the field, it is an invaluable reference work for any fan of imaginative fiction. Score: 3. Science fiction has evolved into one of the most popular, cutting-edge and exciting fiction geners, with a proliferation of modern and classic authors, themes and ideas, movies, TV series and awards.
Arranged in an A-Z format, and featuring a comprehensive index and cross-referencing system, The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is also the most accessible and easy to use encyclopedia of its kind currently available.
Score: 5. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore the future effects of science on events and human beings. Science Fact and Science Fiction examines in one volume how science has propelled science-fiction and, to a lesser extent, how science fiction has influenced the sciences. Although coverage will discuss the science behind the fiction from the Classical Age to the present, focus is naturally on the 19th century to the present, when the Industrial Revolution and spectacular progress in science and technology triggered an influx of science-fiction works speculating on the future.
Numerous others were involved, including John Brosnan who wrote many film entries. So naturally I was very pleased with it. With color photographs and fifty black-and-white duotones, this up-to-date encyclopedia offers readers the very best from the millions of words, sounds, and images written, filmed, and recorded about the science fiction genre.
Click here for the Introduction and more on the text; here for Frequently Asked Questions; here for Advice to Students on citations. S35D33 '. In May the visual element not included since the illustrated first edition of was restored by the institution of the SF Encyclopedia Picture Gallery [see under links below], a now very extensive and still growing archive of cover images from books cited in the above-mentioned bibliographical Checklists.
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