Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction

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Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction will cover the history of science fiction literature through a chronology, an introduction, an extensive bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on writers, subgenres, and technical terms.

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Allen Stroud is a lecturer at Coventry University and a principal investigator in Creative Futures with the Ministry of Defence. He is the current Chair of the British Science Fiction Association and was editor of the British Fantasy Society Journal from 2015 to 2019. He worked on the computer games Elite Dangerous (2014), Chaos Reborn (2016) and Phoenix Point (2019), developing world backgrounds, plot and fiction. He is an award-winning writer and has written critical works, short stories, novels and music. His new science fiction novel, Fearless came out in September 2020, and the sequel, Resilient was published in 2022.