Science Fiction
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Science Fiction
By Brian BakerIn an essay in each of the Atheling collections, Blish pays close attention to the work of Damon Knight, ... In 'New Maps and Old Saws', Blish describes Knight's book thus: This volume, after a brief but épée-like statement of ...
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Science Fiction
By Roger Luckhurst, Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature Roger LuckhurstCarl Freedman, one of Suvin's followers, has tried to loosen things up a bit by suggesting that texts do not have to pass a test on the rigours of their scientific cognition. It is enough that a text exploits the 'cognition effect' ...
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Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels
By David PringleInformative and readable, David Pringle's choices focus on landmark works by the likes of Ray Bradbury, Alfred Bester and J.G. Ballard, unearth less prominent talents such as Ian Watson, Octavia Butler and Joanna Russ, and highlight ...
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Science Fiction: The Best of the Year
By Rich HortonDorian looked both ways down the long , curving hall , but there wasn't another elevator . The inn's maps were almost impossible to read since the inn itself was aggressively three - dimensional , riddled with elevators , stairs , ramps ...
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Science Fiction: The Year's Best (2006 Edition)
By Alastair Reynolds, Joe HaldemanHer house was one of nine at the summit of Mt . Terror, on Antarctica's Ross Island overlooking both the volcano's active caldera and the Ross Sea coast, aglow in the lights of McMurdo City and, across the water, of Glacia and Victoria ...
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Science Fiction: The Best of 2002
By Karen Haber, Robert SilverbergA well-known science fiction writer and his long-time collaborator offer a collection of science fiction stories selected from magazines, journals, and anthologies.
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Science Fiction: The Best of 2001
Science Fiction: The Best of 2001
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Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005
By Jonathan StrahanCompiled in one volume are 14 award-nominated stories that acclaimed anthologist Strahan has assembled in his third annual survey of the best new science fiction stories of the year.
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Science Fiction: The Best of 2004
By Karen Haber, Jonathan StrahanA collection of the best science fiction prose written in 2004, by some of the genre's greatest writers, and selected by two of SF's most respected editors.
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Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels : an English-language Selection, 1949-1984
By David PringleEncompassing the masterpieces of modern science fiction this book offers a broad list of works by such authors as Ray Bradbury, George R. Stewart, and Gene Wolfe
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Science Fiction
By Roger LuckhurstThe trilogy of episodes concerning Duane Barry's abduction ('Duane Barry', 'Ascension' and '3' in the 1994 second series), however, owed more to conspiratorial and alarmist accounts: aliens and government agents seem interchangeable in ...
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Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction
By David SeedIn the introduction to his 1994 anthology of hard science fiction, David G. Hartwell spells out some of the characteristics of these novels. For him, they combine a concern with scientific truth with a conservatism of method and a ...
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Science Fiction: A Poem!
By Robin Wyatt DunnScience Fiction is a love poem disguised as a hate poem.
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Science Fiction
By Adam Charles RobertsKirk and the crew come across a planet caught in a savage civil war between two different 'races'. The people of this planet are humanoid, and divided into two colours by a line running down the middle of their faces and bodies (a ...
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Science Fiction: Its Criticism and Teaching
By Patrick ParrinderScience Fiction: Its Criticism and Teaching
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Science Fiction
By Sylvia Z. BrodkinScience Fiction
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Science Fiction
The stories, poems, and paintings in this collection explore other dimensions of time and space, alien life forms, altered states of consciousness, and other favorite science fiction themes.
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Science Fiction: Teacher's Manual
By Sylvia Z. Brodkin, Elizabeth J. PearsonScience Fiction: Teacher's Manual
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Science Fiction
Science Fiction
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Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction
By David SeedDavid 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.