Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science Fiction, 3d ed. 3 Revised edition

First published in 1975 as a coffee-table volume, Alternate Worlds soon became a classic, winning an award from the World Science Fiction Convention. McFarland's more accessible edition brings the story of science-fiction's amazing development into a literature of our times up to date with a new chapter about what has happened in the genre and the world in the past forty years.