Description |
xxvii, 295 p. ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Cambridge companions to literature |
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Cambridge companions to literature.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-284) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction : Reading science fiction / Farah Mendlesohn -- Science fiction before the genre / Brian Stableford -- Magazine era : 1926-1960 / Brian Attebery -- New Wave and backwash : 1960-1980 / Damien Broderick -- Science fiction from 1980 to the present / John Clute -- Film and television / Mark Bould -- Science fiction and its editors / Gary K. Wolfe-- Marxist theory and science fiction / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. -- Feminist theory and science fiction / Veronica Hollinger -- Postmodernism and science fiction / Andrew M. Butler -- Science fiction and queer theory / Wendy Pearson -- Icons of science fiction / Gwyneth Jones -- Science fiction and the life sciences / Joan Slonczewski and Michael Levy -- Hard science fiction / Kathryn Cramer -- Space opera / Gary Westfahl -- Alternate history / Andy Duncan -- Utopias and anti-utopias / Edward James -- Politics and science fiction / Ken Macleod -- Gender in science fiction / Helen Merrick -- Race and ethnicity in science fiction / Elisabeth Anne Leonard -- Religion and science fiction / Farah Mendlesohn. |
Subject |
Science fiction -- History and criticism.
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Added Author |
James, Edward, 1947-
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Mendlesohn, Farah.
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Added Title |
Companion to science fiction |
ISBN |
0521016576 (pbk.) |
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9780521016575 (pbk.) |
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0521816262 (hardback) |
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9780521816267 (hardback) |
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