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A companion to science fiction

Author: David Seed
Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., ©2008.
Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture, 34.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. * This Companion conveys the  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David Seed
ISBN: 9781405184373 140518437X
OCLC Number: 191890958
Notes: Originally published: 2005.
Description: xvi, 612 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction : Approaching science fiction --
pt. I. Surveying the field. Hard reading : the hard reading : the challenges of science fiction / Tom Shippey --
The origins of science fiction / George Slusser --
Science fiction/criticism / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. --
Science-fiction magazines : the crucibles of change / MIke Ashley --
pt. II. Topics and debates. Utopia / Phillip E. Wegner --
Science, fiction and religion / Stephen R.L. Clark --
"Monsters of the imagination" : Gothic,science, fiction / Fred Botting --
Science fiction and ecology / Brian Stableford --
Feminist fabulation / Marleen S. Barr --
Time and identity in feminist science fiction / Jenny Wolmark --
Science fiction and the Cold War / M. Keith Booker --
pt. III. Genres and movements. Hard science fiction / Gary Westfahl --
The new wave / Rob Latham --
Cyberpunk / Mark Bould --
Science fiction and postmodernism / Veronica Hollinger --
The renewal of "hard" science fiction / Donald M. Hassler --
pt. IV. Science fiction film. American science fiction film : an overview / Vivian Sobchack --
Figurations of the cyborg in contemporary science fiction novels and fiction / Christine Cornea --
British television science fiction / Peter Wright --
pt. V. The international scene. Canadian science fiction / Douglas Barbour --
Japanese and Asian science fiction / Takayuki Tatsumi --
Australian science fiction / Van Ikin and Sean McMullen --
VI. Key writers. The grandeur of H.G. Wells / Robert Crossley --
Isaac Asimov / John Clute --
John Wyndham : the facts of life sextet / David Ketterer --
Philip Dick / Christopher Palmer --
Samuel Delaney : a biographical and critical overview / Carl Freedman --
Ursula K. Le Guin / Warren G. Rochelle --
Gwyneth Jones anxietiesanxities of science fiction / Andy Sawyer --
Arthur C. Clarke / Edward James --
Greg Egan / Russell Blackford --
pt. VII. Readings. Mary Shelley : Frankenstein : or, the modern Prometheus / Susan E. Lederer and Richard M. Ratzan --
Charlotte Perkins Gilman : Herland / Jill Rudd --
Aldous Huxley : Brave new world / David Seed --
Ray Bradbury : Fahrenheit 451 / Brian Baker --
Joanna Russ : The female man / Jeanne Cortiel --
J.G. Ballard : Crash / Roger Luckhurst --
Margaret Atwood : The handmaid's tale / Faye Hammill --
William Gibson : Neuromancer / Andrew M. Butler --
Kim Stanley Robinson : Mars trilogy / Carol Franko --
Iain M. Banks : Excession / Farah Mendlesohn.
Series Title: Blackwell companions to literature and culture, 34.
Responsibility: edited by David Seed.

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