Science fiction
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Science fiction
（The new critical idiom）
Routledge, 2000
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Bibliography: (p. [195]-200)
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hbk ISBN 9780415192040
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.
Table of Contents
1. Defining Science Fiction Why SF is So Good, Why SF is So Bad, Defining SF, Other Definitions of the Form, SF and Postmodernity, Prediciton and Nostalgia, Case Study Chapter 2. The History of Science Fiction Origins, Imperal Contexts, The American Century, The Golden Age, New Wave, Star Wars Chapter 3. Gender Female Science Fiction, Women and Aliens, Ursula Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness Chapter 4. Race Representing Race, Race and Star Trek, Alien Abduction, Blackness in Men In Black Chapter 5. Technology and Metaphor Spaceships, Robots, Cyberspace.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415192057
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.
Table of Contents
1. Defining Science Fiction 2. The History of Science Fiction. From beginnings to the 1960s 3. Gender 4. Race 5. Technology and Metaphor
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