A companion to science fiction / edited by David Seed.
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| Superior document: | Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 34 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 612 p. |
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Table of 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
- pt. 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.