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The subtitle is fairly self-explanatory. Aldiss lays out the history of science fiction as a literary genre in a non-chronological format. For instance, the exploration of some ancient Roman fantasies often mistaken for science fiction occurs in chapter three, after Aldiss describes some eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature. Aldiss's main contention is that science fiction started as a lively sub-genre of the Gothic, beginning with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Intriguingly, he added

Title : Billion Year Spree: The True History of Science Fiction
Author : Brian W. Aldiss
Language : en
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