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The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

Author : Mark Bould
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135228361
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction written by Mark Bould and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of the history and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers, movements, and texts in the genre, established critical approaches and areas for future study. Fifty-six entries by a team of renowned international contributors are divided into four parts which look, in turn, at: history – an integrated chronological narrative of the genre’s development theory – detailed accounts of major theoretical approaches including feminism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, postcolonialism, posthumanism and utopian studies issues and challenges – anticipates future directions for study in areas as diverse as science studies, music, design, environmentalism, ethics and alterity subgenres – a prismatic view of the genre, tracing themes and developments within specific subgenres. Bringing into dialogue the many perspectives on the genre The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and the future of science fiction and the way it is taught and studied.

A Companion to Science Fiction

Author : David Seed
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781405112185
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Science Fiction written by David Seed and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2005-09-12 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 scale and variety of science fiction. Shows how science fiction has been used as a means of debating cultural issues. Essays by an international range of scholars discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. Addresses general topics, such as the history and origins of the genre, its engagement with science and gender, and national variations of science fiction around the English-speaking world. Maps out connections between science fiction, television, the cinema, virtual reality technology, and other aspects of the culture. Includes a section focusing on major figures, such as H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ursula Le Guin. Offers close readings of particular novels, from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.

The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction

Author : Edward James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521016575
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction written by Edward James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

A Companion to Science Fiction

Author : David Seed
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405144580
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Science Fiction written by David Seed and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by aninternational range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themesand methods used by science fiction writers. This Companion conveys the scale and variety of sciencefiction. Shows how science fiction has been used as a means of debatingcultural issues. Essays by an international range of scholars discuss thecontexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. Addresses general topics, such as the history and origins ofthe genre, its engagement with science and gender, and nationalvariations of science fiction around the English-speakingworld. Maps out connections between science fiction, television, thecinema, virtual reality technology, and other aspects of theculture. Includes a section focusing on major figures, such as H.G.Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ursula Le Guin. Offers close readings of particular novels, from MaryShelley’s Frankenstein to Margaret Atwood’sThe Handmaid’s Tale.

The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

Author : Mark Bould
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

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Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction

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ISBN 13 : 9785210165763
Total Pages : pages
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ISBN 13 : 9781780348179
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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of the history and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers, movements, and texts in the genre, established critical approaches and areas for future study.

The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction

Author : Gerry Canavan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316240274
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction written by Gerry Canavan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience. Science fiction in America has long served to reflect the country's hopes, desires, ambitions, and fears. The ideas and conventions associated with science fiction are pervasive throughout American film and television, comics and visual arts, games and gaming, and fandom, as well as across the culture writ large. Through essays that address not only the history of science fiction in America but also the influence and significance of American science fiction throughout media and fan culture, this companion serves as a key resource for scholars, teachers, students, and fans of science fiction.

Modern Science Fiction

Author : Reginald Bretnor
Publisher : Chicago : Advent Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Modern Science Fiction written by Reginald Bretnor and published by Chicago : Advent Publishers. This book was released on 1979 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by John W. Campbell, Jr., Anthony Boucher, Don Fabun, Fletcher Pratt, Rosalie Moore, L. Sprague de Camp, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip Wylie, Gerald Heard, and Reginald Bretnor. The original 1953 edition was the first serious discussion of modern science fiction as literature. The San Francisco Chronicle said: "The book is very likely to recruit a whole host of new readers. . . A freely argued, objective, highly individualistic study by ten writers of the origins, advances and future prospects of science fiction as a spontaneous living literature." The essays are grouped in three sections: "Science Fiction Today," "Science Fiction as Literature," and "Science Fiction, Science, and Modern Man." This classic symposium is a fit companion to Mr. Bretnor's later books Science Fiction, Today and Tomorrow and The Craft of Science Fiction. Our new edition adds a preface by the editor, a chapter of notes and corrections, and a complete index.

Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Sherryl Vint
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441119604
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Sherryl Vint and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its beginnings in the works of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne to the virtual worlds of William Gibson's Neuromancer and The Matrix, Science Fiction: A Guide to the Perplexed helps students navigate the often perplexing worlds of a perennially popular genre. Drawing on literature as well as example from film and television, the book explores the different answers that criticism has offered to the vexed question, 'what is science fiction?' Each chapter of the book includes case studies of key texts, annotated guides to further reading and suggestions for class discussion to help students master the full range of contemporary critical approaches to the field, including the scientific, technological and political contexts in which the genre has flourished. Ranging from an understanding of the genre through the stereotypes of 1930s pulps through more recent claims that we are living in a science fictional moment, this volume will provide a comprehensive overview of this diverse and fascinating genre.

Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction

Author : David Seed
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199557454
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction written by David Seed and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Seed examines how science fiction has emerged as a popular genre of literature in the 20th century, and discusses it in relation to themes such as science and technology, space, aliens, utopias, and gender. Looking at some of the most influential writers of the genre he also considers the wider social and political issues it raises.

The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction

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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion explores the relationship between American science fiction and its roots in the American cultural experience. Essays address not only the history of science fiction in America but also the influence and significance of American science fiction throughout media and fan culture.

Dark Companion

Author : Andre Norton
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1618244264
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Dark Companion written by Andre Norton and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a future where humanity has scattered itself across the stars and Earth itself is now a dimly-remembered place of legend, two worlds of near-supernatural strangeness challenge two naive but courageous heroes. The planet Beltane had been unscathed by the all-encompassing war of the four Sectors when Vere Collis and his friends, exploring caves underground, were trapped by powerful explosions on the surface. Their leader was killed, but the group wandered for days underground to find a way to the surface. They emerged to find that they were the last human survivors on Beltane. Only strange and deadly mutant creatures now roamed the surface. Elsewhere in the galaxy, Kildas home planet had no place for her, so she took employment as a teacher and governess to two young children on the planet named Dylan. But she soon found that one of her charges has an invisible _dread companionÓ¾and soon Kilda knows that the companion is not imaginary at all, as it leads her charges into an other-dimensional world resembling the legends of Faerie. Though the other world has unknown dangers on every hand, Kilda follows the children across the spatial barrier, knowing that she is their only hope. Two complete novels of two very different heroes battling alien and unknown evil, and fighting to protect the helpless in worlds that are wondrous, terrifying, and utterly alien. Publishers Note: Dark Companion has previously appeared separately as Dark Piper and Dread Companion. This is the first combined publication of the complete book. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Science Fiction

Author : Jesse G. Cunningham
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613643221
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction written by Jesse G. Cunningham and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the literature and writers of the Science Fiction genre.

Science Fiction

Author : Sherryl Vint
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262539993
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction written by Sherryl Vint and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How science fiction has been a tool for understanding and living through rapid technological change. The world today seems to be slipping into a science fiction future. We have phones that speak to us, cars that drive themselves, and connected devices that communicate with each other in languages we don't understand. Depending the news of the day, we inhabit either a technological utopia or Brave New World nightmare. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge surveys the uses of science fiction. It focuses on what is at the core of all definitions of science fiction: a vision of the world made otherwise and what possibilities might flow from such otherness.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1975-1991

Author : R. Reginald
Publisher : Detroit : Gale Research
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1536 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1975-1991 written by R. Reginald and published by Detroit : Gale Research. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction constitutes one of the largest and most widely read genres in literature, and this reference provides bibliographical data on some 20,000 science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction books, as well as nonfiction monographs about the literature. A companion to Reginald's Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1700-1974 (Gale, 1979), the present volume is alphabetically arranged by approximately 10,000 author names. The entry for each individual work includes title, publisher, date and place published, number of pages, hardbound or paperback format, and type of book (novel, anthology, etc.). Where appropriate, entries also provide translation notes, series information, pseudonyms, and remarks on special features (such as celebrity introductions). Includes indexes of titles, series, awards, and "doubles" (for locating volumes containing two novels). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.