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Fantastic Imaginings: A Journey Through 3500 Years of Imaginative Writing, Comprising Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction (Library Edition)
Fantastic Imaginings A Journey Through 3500 Years of Imaginative Writing Comprising Fantasy Horror and Science Fiction - Library Edition Author:Stefan Rudnicki [Library Edition Audiobook CD in Vinyl case.] — [Introduction by Harlan Ellison] — Collected here are the stories, poems, and religious writings that preceded and helped form the science fiction and fantasy genres. The collection explores the key imaginative roots and their later literary permutations. The author list alone reads like a literary w... more »ho's who and includes many writers not primarily known for their forays into the fantastic. Organized by topic rather than simple chronology, this volume allows the listener to trace the history of robots, aliens, and apocalypses up to some of their most recent manifestations.
Topic chapters and represented authors include ''Transformers'' (Card, Asimov, Rossetti), ''Shocking Futures'' (Swift, More), and ''Traveling Fools'' (Carol, Burroughs, McCaffrey). This definitive collection of science fiction and fantasy sources illustrates how earlier generations imagined the future.« less