Alternate Worlds : The Illustrated History of Science Fiction, 3d ed.

Alternate Worlds was first published in 1975 and became an instant classic, winning a Hugo award. This third edition brings the history of science fiction up to date, covering developments over the past forty years--a period that has seen the advent of technologies only imagined in the genre's Golden Age. As a literature of change, science fiction has become ever more meaningful, presaging dangers to humanity and, as Alvin Toffler wrote, guarding against "e;the premature arrival of the future."e; The world has begun to recognize science fiction in many different ways, incorporating its elements in products, visual media and huge conventions.