THIS weighty, costly dictionary of sci-fi is more likely to find a home in a reference library or on a literary critic鈥檚 bookshelf than on the average aficionado鈥檚 coffee table. However, it does a thorough job of tracking the development of 鈥渟peculative fiction鈥� from the 18th century to the present.
A scholarly introduction, a chronology and a well-researched bibliography support short entries on individual authors and thematic articles similar to those in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (Orbit, 1993), which this complements rather than replaces.
Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Literature
Scarecrow Press