American Science Fiction

American Science Fiction
Author: Various
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-09-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1598531573

Collects nine classic science fiction novels from 1953 to 1958.

Race in American Science Fiction

Race in American Science Fiction
Author: Isiah Lavender
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2011-02-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0253222591

Noting that science fiction is characterized by an investment in the proliferation of racial difference, Isiah Lavender III argues that racial alterity is fundamental to the genre's narrative strategy. Race in American Science Fiction offers a systematic classification of ways that race appears and how it is silenced in science fiction, while developing a critical vocabulary designed to focus attention on often-overlooked racial implications. These focused readings of science fiction contextualize race within the genre's better-known master narratives and agendas. Authors discussed include Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, and Ursula K. Le Guin, among many others.

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020
Author: Diana Gabaldon
Publisher: Mariner Books
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: FICTION
ISBN: 1328613100

"Featuring guest-editor contributions by the author of the Outlander series, a latest annual edition compiles top-selected short works of science fiction and fantasy from the year 2019."--Provided by publisher.

American Science Fiction and the Cold War

American Science Fiction and the Cold War
Author: David Seed
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2013-10-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1135953821

American Science Fiction--in both literature and film--has played a key role in the portrayal of the fears inherent in the Cold War. The end of this era heralds the need for a reassessment of the literary output of the forty-year period since 1945. Working through a series of key texts, American Science Fiction and the Cold War investigates the political inflections put on American narratives in the post-war decades by Cold War cultural circumstances. Nuclear holocaust, Russian invasion, and the perceived rise of totalitarianism in American society are key elements in the author's exploration of science fiction narratives that include Fahrenheit 451, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Dr. Strangelove.

The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction

The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction
Author: Eric Carl Link
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2015-01-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107052467

This Companion explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience.

The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction

The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction
Author: Rachel Haywood Ferreira
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2011-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780819570833

Early science fiction has often been associated almost exclusively with Northern industrialized nations. In this groundbreaking exploration of the science fiction written in Latin America prior to 1920, Rachel Haywood Ferreira argues that science fiction has always been a global genre. She traces how and why the genre quickly reached Latin America and analyzes how writers in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico adapted science fiction to reflect their own realities. Among the texts discussed are one of the first defenses of Darwinism in Latin America, a tale of a time-traveling history book, and a Latin American Frankenstein. Latin American science fiction writers have long been active participants in the sf literary tradition, expanding the limits of the genre and deepening our perception of the role of science and technology in the Latin American imagination. The book includes a chronological bibliography of science fiction published from 1775 to 1920 in all Latin American countries.

American Science Fiction TV

American Science Fiction TV
Author: Jan Johnson-Smith
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780819567383

Science fiction TV and the American psyche.

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015
Author: Joe Hill
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0544449843

Imaginative fiction from Neil Gaiman, Karen Russell, Daniel H. Wilson, and more, selected by New York Times-bestselling author Joe Hill. Science fiction and fantasy enjoy a long literary tradition, stretching from Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne to Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, and William Gibson. In The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2015 award-winning editor John Joseph Adams and Joe Hill deliver a diverse and vibrant collection of stories published in the previous year. Featuring writers with deep science fiction and fantasy backgrounds, along with those who are infusing traditional fiction with speculative elements, these stories uphold a longstanding tradition in both genres—looking at the world and asking, What if? The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2015 includes Kelly Link, Neil Gaiman, Karen Russell T. C. Boyle, Sofia Samatar, Jo Walton, Cat Rambo Daniel H. Wilson, Seanan McGuire, Jess Row, and more. “The overall quality of the work is very high.”—Publishers Weekly

American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1960-1966 (LOA #321)

American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1960-1966 (LOA #321)
Author: Poul Anderson
Publisher: Library of America
Total Pages: 738
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1598536362

In a deluxe collector's edition hardcover, four classic novels from science fiction's most transformative decade, including the landmark Flowers for Algernon This volume, the first of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, opens with Poul Anderson's immensely popular The High Crusade, in which aliens planning to conquer Earth land in Lincolnshire during the Hundred Years' War. In Clifford Simak's Hugo Award-winning Way Station, Enoch Wallace is a spry 124-year-old Civil War veteran whose lifelong job monitoring the intergalactic pit stop inside his home is largely uneventful--until a CIA agent shows up and Cold War hostilities threaten the peaceful harmony of the Galactic confederation. Daniel Keyes's beloved Flowers for Algernon, winner of the Nebula Award and adapted as the Academy Award-winning movie Charly, is told through the journal entries of Charlie Gordon, a young man with severe learning disabilities who is the test subject for surgery to improve his intelligence. And in the postapocalyptic earthscape of Roger Zelazny's Hugo Award-winning . . . And Call Me Conrad (also published as This Immortal) Conrad Nomikos reluctantly accepts the responsibility of showing the planet to the governing extraterrestrials' representative and protecting him from rebellious remnants of the human race. Using early manuscripts and original setting copy, this Library of America volume restores the novel to a version that most closely approximates Zelazny's original text.

Screening Space

Screening Space
Author: Vivian Carol Sobchack
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1997
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780813524924

This text attempts to shape definitions of the American science fiction film, studying the connection between the films and social preconceptions. It covers many classic films and discusses their import, seeking to rescue the genre from the neglect of film theorists. The book should appeal to both film buff and fans of science fiction.