Science Fiction (2nd edition)
Science Fiction is a fascinating and comprehensive introduction to one
of the most popular areas of modern culture. This second edition
reflects how the field is rapidly changing in both its practice and its
critical reception. With an entirely new conclusion and all other
chapters fully reworked and updated, this volume includes:
a concise history of science fiction and the ways in which the genre has been used and defined
explanations of key concepts in Science Fiction criticism and theory
through chapters such as Gender, Race, Technology and Metaphor
examines the interactions between Science Fiction and Science Fact
anchors each chapter with a case study drawn from short story, book or
film, from Frank Herbert's Dune to Star Wars, from The Left Hand of
Darkness to Neuromancer.
Introducing the reader to nineteenth-century, Pulp, Golden Age, New
Wave, Feminist and Cyberpunk science fictions, this is the essential
contemporary guide to a major cultural movement.
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