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Creators of Science Fiction

Creators of Science Fiction

Creators of Science Fiction

Brian Stableford

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Wildside Press
Año de edición:
2009
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Estudios literarios: ficción, novelistas y prosistas
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9781434457592
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Well-known critic and novelist Brian Stableford here discusses the writers, editors, and publishers who helped create the modern genre of science fiction: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Camille Flammarion, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Hugo Gernsback, John W. Campbell Jr., Edward E. 'Doc' Smith, Robert A. Heinlein, James Blish, Gregory Benford, and Ian Watson. Complete with bibliography and index. 3

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