SCIENCE FICTION OF THE 20TH CENTURY An Illustrated History

Vividly illustrated with many images of film posters, magazines and books-- many of them are shown here for the first time. Science Fiction Of The 20th Century offers an insiders view of the amazing illustrators, writers and editors who made science fiction the most popular form of entertainment in the 20th century. From dime novels to pump magazines and books to films, science fiction has chronicled both our hopes for the future and our fear of it. Frank Robinson tells the story-behind-the-story from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein publishes in the 1800’s through the fantastic visions of Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Stephen Spielberg, George Lucas and many others who made science fiction their profession but also their life. Frank Robinson is the author of 16 books, the editor of two others, and has penned numerous articles. Three of his novels have been made into movies. The Power (1956) was a supernatural science fiction and government conspiracy novel about people with superhuman skills, filmed in 1968 as The Power. The Glass Inferno, co-written with Thomas N. Scortia, was combined with Richard Martin Stern's The Tower to produce the 1974 movie The Towering Inferno. The Gold Crew, also co-written Scortia, was a nuclear threat thriller filmed as an NBC miniseries and re-titled The Fifth Missile. A 10x13 limited edition poster 164/400 is included from Sanders Centennial 1907-2007 Out of Print. Condition: Fine. Book has 1 slight top bumped corner.