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Part of the palgrave histories of literature book series palgrave histories of literature. This list was compiled by the usc rossier school of education using lists of bestsellers from amazon and goodreads. Along the x axis is time, and on the y axis is the count of editions. Bbc culture polled several dozen critics to select the greatest. Though youll have plenty of reading material here, do also pay a visit to sffaudios. The account of 19thcentury science fiction has been expanded, and the various chapters tracing the twentiethcentury bring in more writing by women, and science fiction in other media including cinema, tv, comics, fanculture and other modes. Publishing history this is a chart to show the publishing history of editions of works about this subject.
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