Reviews for Science Fiction & Fantasy A Bibliography

The average rating for Science Fiction & Fantasy A Bibliography based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-06-11 00:00:00 Robert Garfinkle Like the one on ancient Greece and Rome this is really a textbook for older kids. But I found it quite stimulating as an introduction to a subject I did not know a great deal about. One thing is most obvious as one studies Egypt, Babylon and China: they all arise at the same time with pretty much the same basic understanding of the world. In other words, they clearly all were together just prior to the beginning of written history. This fits perfectly with the Biblical narrative that they all divided up at the tower of Babel at a point in time and began building civilizations, and not with the narrative that utterly primitive, recently-monkey-men suddenly started to build fabulous civilizations independently of each other. Liked it. Reading the one on China now, too.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-11-15 00:00:00 Chris Canady Mostly good - this covers math, astronomy, engineering, and medicine. There are a number of places where it could be improved by simplification (often just omission). Illustrations are sometimes helpful, illuminating what has been described in the text, but at other times they are unclear or tangential.