Brian Ash, "The Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction"
Harmony | 1977 | ISBN: 0517531755 | English | PDF | 352 pages | 87.8 MB
Harmony | 1977 | ISBN: 0517531755 | English | PDF | 352 pages | 87.8 MB
There were a few attempts at putting together "comprehensive" science fiction encyclopedias before the 1970s, but that decade and the next really saw an explosion in both the big, glossy, heavily illustrated surveys of the field, and in the more scholarly and penetrating histories and explorations of what had become a huge genre. James E. Gunn's ALTERNATE WORLDS (1974) and Peter Nichols' THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION (1977) are two of the better-known examples; the latter was expanded and completely overhauled in 1993 with new co-writer John Clute and remains the best single-volume work of it's kind I think, at least in English.