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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.
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Wessells, Henry.
Science fiction -- History and criticism -- Exhibitions.
Futuristic fiction -- History and criticism.
Speculative fiction -- History and criticism.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Crowley, John, 1942-
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