Condition: Neat inked name on front free endpaper, page edges a little browned, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

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Billion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction (signed by the author).

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson: London. : 1973.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 05656

ISBN-13: 9780297765554

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Neat inked name on front free endpaper, page edges a little browned, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

340 pages. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.''Billion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction (1973), a large survey of sf marked by iconoclasms, enthusiasms, and impatience, is Aldiss's most important nonfiction work as far as the genre is concerned; its central argument - that sf is a child of the intersection of Gothic romance with the Industrial Revolution, and that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein(1818) is the founding text of the genre, gives profound pleasure as a myth of origin. Though it fails circumstantially to be altogether convincing, its focus on the early nineteenth century, a...
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Condition: Neat inked name on front free endpaper, page edges a little browned, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

Billion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction (signed by the author).

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