The Mechanics of Wonder – The Creation of the Idea of Science Fiction Westfahl

The Mechanics of Wonder The Creation of the Idea of Science Fiction\nby Gary Westfahl\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Gary Westfahl\nTitle: The Mechanics of Wonder The Creation of the Idea of Science Fiction\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Science fiction\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press\nPublication year: 1998\nISBN-13: 9780853235736\nISBN-10: 0853235732\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe Mechanics of Wonder will arouse debate and force the questioning of presuppositions. No other book so closely examines the origins and development of the idea of science fiction, and it will stand among a small number of crucial texts with which every science fiction scholar or prospective science fiction scholar will have to read.\n\nThe Mechanics of Wonder will arouse debate .