Science Fiction Handbook

Name: Science Fiction Handbook
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ISBN: 9781405162067

ISBN-10: 1405162066

ISBN-13: 9781405162067

Edition: 2009 (Handbook (Instructor's))

Authors: M. Keith Booker, Anne-Marie Thomas

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This indispensable Handbook provides a unique and comprehensive survey of the field of science fiction looking at the history of this increasingly popular genre. With features on key science fiction authors including George Orwell and Mageret Atwood, together with extensive discussion of major science fiction novels and sequences, this handbook is essential reading for anyone interested in or studying Science Fiction and its many subgenres.Essential reading for anyone interested in the genre, The Science Fiction Handbook presents a historical survey of this popular genre including the most important subgenres, such as time-travel narratives, alien-invasion narratives, dystopian science…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 3/31/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 356
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English




Introduction. Science Fiction in Western Culture



Brief Historical Surveys of Science Fiction Subgenres


The Time-Travel Invasion


The Alien Invasion Narrative


The Space Opera


Apocalyptic and Post-Disaster Narratives


Dystopian Science Fiction


Utopian Fiction


Feminism, Science Fiction, and Gender


Science Fiction and Satire


Cyberpunk and Posthuman Science Fiction


Multicultural Science Fiction



Representative Science Fiction Authors


Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)


Margaret Atwood (1939-)


Octavia Butler (1947-2006)


Samuel R. Delany (1942-)


Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)


William Gibson (1948-)


Nicola Griffith (1960-)


Joe Haldeman (1943-)


Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)


Nalo Hopkinson (1960-)


Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-)


Ian McDonald (1960-)


China Mi_ville (1972-)


George Orwell (1903-1950)


Marge Piercy (1936-)


Frederik Pohl (1919-)


Kim Stanley Robinson (1952-)


Neal Stephenson (1959-)


H. G. Wells (1866-1946)



Discussions of Individual Texts



The Time Machine (1895)



The War of the Worlds (1898)



Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)


Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (1950)



The Space Merchants (1952)



Starship Troopers (1959)



Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)



The Dispossessed (1974)



The Forever War (1974)



Woman on the Edge of Time (1976)



Trouble on Triton (1976)



Neuromancer (1984)



The Handmaid's Tale (1985)



"Xenogenesis" trilogy (1987-1989)



Snow Crash (1992)



Ammonite (1994)



"Mars" trilogy (1992-1996)



Midnight Robber (2000)



Perdido Street Station (2000)



River of Gods (2005)


Glossary


Selected Bibliography


Index