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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (SFE) is an English language reference work on science fiction, first published in 1979. It has won the Hugo , Locus and British SF Awards. Two print editions appeared in 1979 and 1993.
- John Clute, Peter Nicholls
- 1979
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t. e. Space exploration, as predicted in August 1958 by the science fiction magazine Imagination. Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and ...
The present encyclopedia was first conceived by Peter Nicholls in the mid-1970s and was published as The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: An Illustrated A to Z ( 1979; vt The Science Fiction Encyclopedia 1979 ). The title page listed Nicholls as General Editor, John Clute as Associate Editor, Carolyn Eardley as Technical Editor, and Malcolm ...
A very much fuller account of sf's history can be gained by following up the various cross-references in the above entry. Many Anthologies of sf from specific periods are available, and book reprint series have brought older works back into the light. Numerous books on the history of sf are discussed under Critical and Historical Works About SF.
Welcome to the Fourth Edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, launched online on 6 October 2021 as a direct continuation of the Third Edition, following the amicable end of our decade-long partnership with Gollancz and the SF Gateway. This reference work, which we continue to refer to in short as the SFE, is edited by John Clute and ...
American proto-science fiction in the 19th century. In the last decades of the 19th century, works of science fiction for adults and children were numerous in America, though it was not yet given the name "science fiction." There were science-fiction elements in the stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Fitz-James O'Brien.
