Although the self-definition of Surrealism and the initial defining of science fiction as a genreboth took place in the 1920s and the links between the two are manifest, no full study hasappeared till now on Surrealism and SF. Across ten original essays, Surrealism, ScienceFiction and Comics looks at how the Surrealist movement in France and the USA used,informed, contributed to, and criticised SF from that moment, whilst including discussion ofthe related genre of comics. Among its aims are a reassessment of Jules Verne in the light ofSurrealism and an analysis of the debate in the 1950s on the new' Anglo-American literaturearriving in France. This received, in fact, a mixed reception from the Surrealists of that decadeeven though writers and intellectuals close to the movement in the 1920s were directlyresponsible for its success.The book includes further essays on the subsequent impact of Surrealism on SF novelists J.G.Ballard and Alan Burns, and features essays that argue for Salvador Dalí's closeness to SF inthe 1960s and his disagreement with the earlier scientific romance defined by Verne. Thechapters that bring in comics range from theoretical discussions of the relation between theoriginal comic strips of Rodolphe Töpffer and the key Surrealist technique of automatism,used in art and writing, through the cybernetic implications of the proto-SF Surrealist cinéroman M. Wzz ' of 1929, which has never discussed in any detail before, to the 1948 Vachepaintings by René Magritte, inspired by Louis Forton's strip Les Pieds nickelés.This pioneering set of essays shows how Surrealism from the 1920s to the 1970s did not justreceive and adapt SF but impacted the genre in its later manifestations.A timely and fascinating collection that raises important contemporary questions and speaksto several disciplines. Hugo Frey, Head of History, University of Chichester and coauthor,'The Graphic Novel: An Introduction' (CUP 2014