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Title: The Great Tradition of Proto Science Fiction

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Title: The Great Tradition of Proto Science Fiction Title Record # 1733562
Author: Peter Nicholls
Date: 1974-01-00
Type: ESSAY
Series: Science Fiction and the Mainstream
Series Number: 2
Language: English
Synopsis: Lists 14 essential items of various classic works (and discusses 11 of them) with major influence on science fiction, among them the Gilgamesh epic, Homer's Odyssey, Dante's Divine Comedy, Shakespeare's The Tempest and Melville's Moby Dick. The 15th example is not a single piece of work but the whole body of novels by Charles Dickens. (Listed, but not discussed are Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Shelley's Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, due to reasons of space)
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Foundation, #5 January 1974 1974-01-00 ed. George Hay, Peter Nicholls, Christopher Priest North East London Polytechnic  
£0.50?£: UK pound
124
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
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Genre Fiction: The Roaring Years: A Collection of Commentaries and Reviews 2022-08-00 Peter Nicholls Ansible Editions 978-1-4716-1610-5
$22.50?$: US dollar
415
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
non-fic  
Genre Fiction: The Roaring Years: A Collection of Commentaries and Reviews 2022-08-00 Peter Nicholls Ansible Editions 978-1-913451-87-5
£5.50?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
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