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Wessells, Henry.
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Science fiction -- History and criticism -- Exhibitions.
Futuristic fiction -- History and criticism.
Speculative fiction -- History and criticism.
Books and reading.
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Wessells, Henry.
Science fiction -- History and criticism -- Exhibitions.
Futuristic fiction -- History and criticism.
Speculative fiction -- History and criticism.
Books and reading.
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A conversation larger than the universe : readings in
science
fiction
and the fantastic, 1762-2017 / by Henry Wessells ; with a foreword by John Crowley.
by
Wessells, Henry.
The Grolier Club, 2018.
Call #:
809.38762 W515c
Subjects
Science
fiction
--
History
and
criticism
--
Exhibitions
.
Futuristic
fiction
--
History
and
criticism
.
Speculative
fiction
--
History
and
criticism
.
Books and reading.
ISBN:
9781605830742 (trade pbk.)
9780996135948 (signed limited ed.)
Description:
287 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
"This catalogue is published in connection with an exhibition at the Grolier Club, January 25 through March 10, 2018"--T. p. verso.
"Printed in the Czech Republic by PB Tisk. Seventy-five copies have been specially bound and signed by the author. Designed by Jerry Kelly and set in his Quarto typeface"--Colophon.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Gothic roots & imaginary voyages
--
The end of the world & other nineteenth-century signposts
--
Peak Victorian (1885)
--
Dark
science
--
Beautiful books before the storm
--
World War One & after
--
H.P. Lovecraft & modern supernatural
fiction
--
Doc Savage & the 1930s
--
Boucher & Borges
--
The 1950s
--
The 1960s
--
Four women: Jean Rhys, Ursula K. Le Guin, Alice Sheldon/James Tiptree, Jr., & Joanna Russ
--
Flying saucer rock 'n' roll & others
--
Little, big
--
When things changed
--
Bibliography & scholarship
--
Right now...
--
Exhibition checklist.
Other authors:
Crowley, John, 1942-
Grolier Club.
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