{"product_id":"imagination-and-evolution-a-truer-history-of-science-fiction-9781649324542","title":"Imagination and Evolution: A Truer History of Science Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eImagination and Evolution is the history of that conversation, which brought what we now call science fiction into existence and saw it grow into a global phenomenon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOthers have long traced its origins to the satirical travel tales and serious utopian theories of ancient Greek and Roman times. But there was nothing inevitable about that; it took revolutions in science and literature to create a climate for the genre, with cultural parallels that parallel Darwinian evolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere were a number of mutations among ancestors of sf, most notably what French critics called \u003cem\u003evoyages imaginaires\u003c\/em\u003e and utopian tracts, spread through adaptive radiation. Later came several proto-sf genres that didn't converse with one another. They, too, spread through adaptive radiation, and there were cultural equivalents of Darwin's finches and even DNA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly with the scientific romances of Jules Verne did sf as we know it inspire a common conversation that absorbed those of proto-sf, to create a literature of ideas that has spread around the world and speaks to us as no other genre can.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn J. Pierce, born in 1941, is a long time science fiction fan and critic, who started out with his own fanzines but went on to edit several Best Of collections for Ballantine\/Del Rey and commentaries on Cordwainer Smith, He was editor of Galaxy magazine for one year, He made his living as a journalist, but had a long interest in history, beginning at the University of Missouri (1964), That led to the first version of his sf history in 1984-6. He is married to Marcia, née Feinbaum, and they live in northern New Jersey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hollywood Comics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52034215280914,"sku":"9781649324542","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c7343a70-4b62-4315-b61e-c87fab279294.jpg?v=1770988465","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/imagination-and-evolution-a-truer-history-of-science-fiction-9781649324542","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}