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Science Fiction

By Adam Roberts

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2000
ISBN
0415192048, 9780415192040, 0415192056, 9780415192057, 9780203454657
Open Library ID
OL7485894M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
714 kB (731185 bytes)
Series
The New Critical Idiom
Edition
1
Pages
224\215
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

This outstanding volume offers a clear and critically engaged account of the phenomenon of science fiction. Adam Roberts provides a concise history of science fiction also explaining key concepts in SF criticism and theory, in chapters such as Gender, Race and Technology. He examines the interactions between science fiction and science fact, anchoring each chapter with a case study drawn from short story, book or film, from Frank Herbert's Dune to Barry Sonnenfeld's Men in Black. Introducing the reader to nineteenth-century, Pulp, Golden Age, New Wave, Feminist and Cyberpunk science fictions, this is the essential guide to a major cultural movement.

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