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  • 11 - Science Fiction

  • from Part II - Prose Genres
  • Edited by Daniel Tyler, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Prose
    Published online:
    05 November 2021
    Print publication:
    18 November 2021, pp 180-195

  • Summary

    Adam Roberts identifies the opposition between plain and excessive styles as a distinguishing feature in the history of science fiction. The chapter considers the rival origins of the genre in Verne and Wells and offers a comprehensive survey of twentieth- and twenty-first-century traditions. Roberts tracks the history of a pared-down, plain style that often runs counter to the excess and scientific detail of the content and sets it alongside a competing, more ambitious, ‘literary’ prose style that has increasingly come into the ascendancy.