Sci-Fi Chronicles, General editor Guy Haley Firefly Books, 576 pages, $29.95.
This collection goes beyond the final frontier and takes you into the furthest reaches of the imagination. Over 500 pages of detailed information cover an incredible range of science fiction. Books, movies, comics, video games and every possible combination that explores an unknown future are collected together in these pages.
There is so much fascinating background history on all of the entries that you can open to almost any page and learn something new. The better-known subjects like the Star Wars saga and Star Trek have multiple page entries with lots of colour photographs, while many topics are covered in one or two pages.
Every entry includes a detailed description and a year-by-year chronology graph.
As well as the science fiction that we love to watch and read, we are also treated to a look at some key personalities like authors Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick and Gene Roddenberry.
Presented in chronological order, the opening entry is from 1818, the year Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, considered to be the first science fiction novel. From that beginning we can examine 215 creations that are featured in 36 genres covering time travel, superheroes, alien invasions and much more.
Any lover of science fiction will embrace their inner nerd with a copy of this book.
