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Publication: Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science Fiction

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  • Publication: Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science FictionPublication Record # 91281
  • Author: James Gunn
  • Date: 1975-00-00
  • ISBN: 0-13-023267-X [978-0-13-023267-0]
  • Publisher: Prentice-Hall
  • Price:
    $29.95?$: US dollar
  • Pages: 256
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NONFICTION
  • Cover: Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science Fiction by Philip Grushkin [as by Phil Grushkin]
  • Notes:
    • No statement of edition or printing on the copyright page with.
    • The copyright page contains the complete Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data including the ISBN (0-13-023267-X), and the LCCN (75-8561).
    • No stated date of publication. The date for the record is based on the copyright year.
    • "Designed by Philip Grushkin" stated on the copyright page.
    • "Jacket design by Phil Grushkin" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.
    • Book is divided into 13 numbered chapters:
      • Chapter 1: The Shape of the Present (pages 13-37)
      • Chapter 2: In the Beginning (pages 38-51)
      • Chapter 3: Toward Verne: 1800-1885 (pages 52-62)
      • Chapter 4: A Victorian Engineer: 1828-1905 (pages 63-76)
      • Chapter 5: The Birth of Mass Magazines: 1885-1911 (pages 77-86)
      • Chapter 6: Prophet of Progress: 1866-1946 (pages 87-101)
      • Chapter 7: The Rise of the Pulps: 1911-1926 (pages 102-116)
      • Chapter 8: That Amazing Decade: 1926-1936 (pages 117-128)
      • Chapter 9: The Expanding Universe: 1930-1940 (pages 129-147)
      • Chapter 10: The Astounding Editor: 1938-1950 (pages 148-171)
      • Chapter 11: The Big Boom: 1940-1955 (pages 172-212)
      • Chapter 12: Alternate Worlds: 1949-1965 (pages 213-224)
      • Chapter 13: The Shape of Things to Come (pages 225-239)
    • There is an Appendix (starting on page 240) that lists awards (through 1974), "Science Fiction Themes", and "A Short History of Western Civilization, Science, Technology, and Science Fiction" (11 pages total).
    • Oversized format (32 cm tall).
    • Pages 17-28, 149-152, 177-178, and 195-208 are printed on slick paper and consists mainly of reproducing the covers of various sf magazines.
  • External IDs:
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Nonfiction Title: Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science Fiction • nonfiction by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]

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