History of Science Fiction on Audio

Here are a few of the recent history of science fiction overviews that are available in audio format.

Gary K. Wolfe’s 24-lecture series as also available as video lectures. David Seed’s introduction is the most succinct – it is about 5 hours as opposed to about 12 hours for each of ‘The Great Courses’ series.

James Wallace Harris, reviewing Wolfe’s lectures, rearranged in a chronological order the main texts that Wolfe covered in his thematically ordered lectures, it makes for an insightful visual history of the genre: 

 

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