Science fiction and the ancient novel, interlude: AD 400-1600
Seventeenth-century science fiction
Eighteenth-century science fiction
Early nineteenth-century science fiction
Science fiction 1850-1900
Jules Verne and H.G. Wells
The early twentieth century: high modernist science fiction
Early twentieth-century science fiction: the pulps
Golden age science fiction 1940-1960
The impact of new wave science fiction 1960s-1970s
Science fiction screen media 1960-2000: Hollywood cinema and television
Prose science fiction 1970's-1990s
Late twentieth-century science fiction: multimedia, visual science fiction and others
Postscript: twenty-first-century science fiction.
