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Scholarship in Science Fiction Studies has expanded greatly in recent decades. As a field of study, it has been extant in one form or another since the 1940s, with the first peer-reviewed journal, Extrapolation, regularly published since 1959. The rise of science fiction as an area befitting academi...

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Published in:Reference and user services quarterly Vol. 53; no. 1; pp. 51 - 59
Main Authors: Potvin, Sarah, Coker, Catherine
Format: Journal Article Book Review
Language:English
Published: Chicago American Library Association 01.10.2013
Subjects:
Bibliographic literature
Bibliographies
British & Irish literature
Electronic publishing
Email
English literature
Extrapolation
Fiction
Genre
Indexing
Internet
Journals (Academic)
Librarians
Library Personnel
Literary Criticism
Literary genres
Periodicals
Popularity
Reference Materials
Reference Services
Resistance (Psychology)
Rhetorical figures
Scholars
Scholarship
Science fiction & fantasy
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851)
Studies
Websites
United States > US
Texas
ISSN:1094-9054, 2163-5242
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Summary:Scholarship in Science Fiction Studies has expanded greatly in recent decades. As a field of study, it has been extant in one form or another since the 1940s, with the first peer-reviewed journal, Extrapolation, regularly published since 1959. The rise of science fiction as an area befitting academic attention was concurrent with a contemporary interest in recognizing genre literature as worthy of study. Though the birth of science fiction is often stated as the 1818 publication date of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, it wasn't until the popularity of pulp magazines such as Amazing Stories in the 1920s that the literature was formally identified as a genre with a particular set of characteristics and noteworthy tropes. In its online incarnation, the SFFRD boasts increased functionality. The Web site currently employs a Python interface drawing on a MySQL database. Entries are full-text searchable and browsable by title, author, subject, and imprint. Users may download or email bibliographic records.
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ISSN:1094-9054
2163-5242
DOI:10.5860/rusq.53n1.51