Science Fiction
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Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology
By Eric S. RabkinScience fiction stories dealing with the effects of technology on civilization include authors ranging from Jonathan Swift and Nathaniel Hawthorne to Isaac Asimov and Harlan Ellison An invaluable contribution to the serious study of science ...
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Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia
By John CluteAn encyclopedia of science fiction magazines, authors, classic titles, graphic works, genre films and television programs, and the effect history has played in relation to this genre.
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Science Fiction: A Critical Guide
By Patrick ParrinderThis Critical Guide attempts a composite portrait of science fiction as a form of creative literature: not, that is, as a disembodied current of notions and ideas (e.g. about technological progress), nor as a 'sub-literature' which may only ...
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Science Fiction: Visions of Tomorrow?
By Isaac Asimov, Francis Reddy, Greg Walz-ChojnackiCompares what writers over the centuries have written about an imaginary future with the reality revealed by time
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Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia
By John CluteCovering the history of the genre in all its forms, and lavishly illustrated with images from books, films, magazines, comics, and graphic novels, science fiction: The illustrated encyclopedia presents one-of-a-kind,...
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Science Fiction
By Sherryl VintDepending 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.
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Science Fiction: A Critical Guide
By Patrick ParrinderGernsback, then, in many accounts becomes the 'father (or founder) of modern science fiction'. All histories of the genre contain some reference to him; the 'Hugo Awards' for the year's best novel, short story, magazine, etc. are called ...
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Science Fiction
By Sherryl VintTake , for example , Stanley Weinbaum's “ A Martian Odyssey ” ( 1934 ) , a celebrated story from the pulp era that was ... 12 The story is beloved for its illustration of the power of scientific observation and extrapolation : an Earth ...
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Science Fiction: Toward a World Literature
By George Slusser... order closing around what appears to be an encounter between the human mind and unknown physical phenomena. ... But in Todorov's process of hesitation, the fantastic internalizes rather than externalizes the problem of the unknown.
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Science Fiction
By Dan Byrne-SmithThis book is the first major anthology to focus on relationships between science fiction and contemporary art, and offers an essential read for all those exploring this vital genre.
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Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed
By Sherryl VintIt is quickly apparent that these cases, recorded in Snow's Planetary Guides published annually from 1925, are an archaeology of the ... Robur from Jules Verne's fiction; Sherlock Holmes, who trains Snow just before Holmes's death; ...
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Science Fiction: Vision of Tomorrow?
By Isaac Asimov, Richard HantulaCompares what writers over the centuries have written about an imaginary future with the reality revealed by time.
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Science Fiction
By Nicola Griffith, Stephen PagelEdited by world-renowned lesbian speculative fiction author Nicola Griffith and science fiction and fantasy publisher Stephen Pagel, this groundbreaking anthology of all-original science fiction stories brings together some of mainstream's...
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Science Fiction: Ten Explorations
By Colin N. ManloveSamuelson, David, Visions of Tomorrow, 2, science fiction: history and definition, 1–14, 217–24, 225nn.4,6,7; current attitudes to, 1–3; imagination in, 3–4, ... 1, 237n.3; character of science fiction, 100–1, 232nn.6, 11, 232–3n.
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Science Fiction
By Phil Hardy, Denis GiffordScience Fiction
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Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed
By Sherryl VintA New Dawn: The Complete Don A. Stuart Stories. Framingham: The NESFA Press, 2003. 335–84. ... Clarke, Arthur C. Childhood's End. New York: Del Rey, 1987. —. “The Sentinel. ... The Second Sex. Trans. Constance Borde and Sheila ...
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Science Fiction: The Great Years
By Frederik Pohl, Carol PohlEach story preceded by 1 paragraph of commentary.
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Science Fiction
By Glyn MorganAcross five chapters, this volume reviews the role played by science fiction in exploring our world and a multitude of ideas about our relationship with the human condition.
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Science Fiction: A Critical Guide
By Patrick Parrinder... a dangerous Martian virus lurking in an abandoned and quarantined Cape Canaveral. 'Thirteen to Centaurus' describes an earthbound spaceship whose crew have been tricked into believing they are on a 100-year voyage to Alpha Centauri.
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Science Fiction: A Literary History
By Roger LuckhurstThis book combines discussion of central figures of the tradition with a new global reach.