The rise of the mass media and professional science makes the years before the Great War an important formative period in the history of popular science. Peter

Explores the first appearance of 'science fiction' in the pages of late nineteenth-century general interest periodicals.

The Yearbook addresses the overriding question: what are the effects of the ‘opening up’ of science to the media? Theoretical considerations and a host of e

A wide-ranging survey of predictions about the future development and impact of science and technology through the twentieth century.

Written by literary scholars, historians of science, and cultural historians, the twenty-two original essays in this collection explore the intriguing and multi