![]() ![]() ![]() And of the 100 or so authors (some books considered have co-authors, and (with the exception of HG Wells who is favoured with 4 books featured - not to hard to argue with that) one author appears under both his real name and separately under a non de plume - the latter is the name that will be most familiar to even those who are not big SF readers), I have read books by some 21 of them. make clear that this is not a 'best 100 books': rather the books are chosen as being most typical of a point in time or of a trend.Īs such, notwithstanding having thought I had read a lot of SF a long time ago, of the 100 books featured, I had read only 7 of them. One unhelpful suggestion is to say that SF is 'what we point to when we say it' (per Damon Knight) define what 'science fiction' actually comprises - particularly given the term was not usually widely used until some decades after Wells' times. identify the period covered but this survey which in fact is 1895 (commencing with H G Wells) and 1966, for reasons adequately set out in a helpful introduction The book's title says almost everything other than to: ![]()
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