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
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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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Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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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. |
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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. |
non-fic |