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Science Fiction Genres: Alternate History, Steampunk, Cyberpunk, Hard Science Fiction, Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, New Wave
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-09-15.
ISBN 9781157475897
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Publisher description
Chapters: Alternate History, Steampunk, Cyberpunk, Hard Science Fiction, Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, New Wave, Comic Science Fiction, Feminist Science Fiction, Alien Invasion, Weird West, Social Science Fiction, Science Fantasy, Biopunk, Afrofuturism, Christian Science Fiction, Dying Earth, Space Western, Paranormal Romance, Tech Noir, Scientific Romance, Military Science Fiction, Edisonade, Superhero Fiction, Mundane Science Fiction, Steam-Con, Feghoot, Science Fiction Western, List of Science Fiction Genres, Spy-Fi, Imaginary Voyage, Transrealism, Speculative Poetry, Skiffy, Soft Science Fiction, Black Science Fiction, Gothic Science Fiction, Post-Futurism. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 105. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Alternate history Fantasy Fiction Horror Fiction Science Fiction Other Alternate history or alternative history is a genre of fiction consisting of stories that are set in worlds in which history has diverged from the actual history of the world. It can be variously seen as a subgenre of literary fiction, science fiction, and historical fiction; different alternate history works may use tropes from any or all of these genres. It is sometimes abbreviated AH. Another occasionally-used term for the genre is "allohistory" (literally "other history"). Since the 1950s, this type of fiction has to a large extent merged with science fictional tropes involving cross-time travel between alternate histories or psychic awareness of the existence of "our" universe by the people in another; or ordinary voyaging uptime or downtime that results in history splitting into two or more timelines. Cross-time, time-splitting and alternate history themes have become so closely interwoven that it is impossible to discuss them fully apart from one another. In French and...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1203
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