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Science Fiction
A work of Non-fiction by Adam Roberts
Subgenres:
- Science Fiction Criticism,
- Literary Theory,
- Genre History
This book is for you if you're into...
- Deep dives into how sci-fi shapes and is shaped by real science
- Case studies linking classic novels and films to big genre ideas
- Exploring sci-fi through lenses like gender, race, and technology
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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