History And Speculative Fiction
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| Author | : Adam Roberts |
| Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016-08-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9781137569592 |
This book is the definitive critical history of science fiction. The 2006 first edition of this work traced the development of the genre from Ancient Greece and the European Reformation through to the end of the 20th century. This new 2nd edition has been revised thoroughly and very significantly expanded. An all-new final chapter discusses 21st-century science fiction, and there is new material in every chapter: a wealth of new readings and original research. The author’s groundbreaking thesis that science fiction is born out of the 17th-century Reformation is here bolstered with a wide range of new supporting material and many hundreds of 17th- and 18th-century science fiction texts, some of which have never been discussed before. The account of 19th-century science fiction has been expanded, and the various chapters tracing the twentieth-century bring in more writing by women, and science fiction in other media including cinema, TV, comics, fan-culture and other modes.
| Author | : Xavier Dollo |
| Publisher | : Humanoids, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 203 |
| Release | : 2021-11-23 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : 164337947X |
Journey through time and space with this graphic novel history of the science fiction genre.
| Author | : A. Roberts |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2005-11-28 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0230554652 |
The History of Science Fiction traces the origin and development of science fiction from Ancient Greece up to the present day. The author is both an academic literary critic and acclaimed creative writer of the genre. Written in lively, accessible prose it is specifically designed to bridge the worlds of academic criticism and SF fandom.
| Author | : Gerry Canavan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2018-12-31 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1316733017 |
The first science fiction course in the American academy was held in the early 1950s. In the sixty years since, science fiction has become a recognized and established literary genre with a significant and growing body of scholarship. The Cambridge History of Science Fiction is a landmark volume as the first authoritative history of the genre. Over forty contributors with diverse and complementary specialties present a history of science fiction across national and genre boundaries, and trace its intellectual and creative roots in the philosophical and fantastic narratives of the ancient past. Science fiction as a literary genre is the central focus of the volume, but fundamental to its story is its non-literary cultural manifestations and influence. Coverage thus includes transmedia manifestations as an integral part of the genre's history, including not only short stories and novels, but also film, art, architecture, music, comics, and interactive media.
| Author | : Mark Bould |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2011-02-23 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1136820418 |
The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction provides students with an accessible overview of the genre that explores how it emerged through competing, multifarious versions and the struggle to define its limits. Discussing the place of key works and looking forward to the future of the genre, this book is the ideal starting point for students and all those seeking a better understanding of science fiction.
| Author | : Rose Fox |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 363 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Anthologies |
| ISBN | : 9780991392100 |
This all-original anthology expands the focus of speculative fiction beyond protagonists who are white, straight, cisgender, and male. The 27 tales collected here focus on those who are marginalized in our history books, in stories that have been passed down through the generations, hidden between the lines of journal entries and love letters.
| Author | : Michael Ashley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 1974 |
| Genre | : Science fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780809280025 |
| Author | : Tananarive Due |
| Publisher | : Rebellion Publishing Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2023-03-14 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1786188570 |
Octavia E. Butler said, “There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” New Suns 2 brings you fresh visions of the strange, the unexpected, the shocking—breakthrough stories, stories shining with emerging truths, stories that pierce stale preconceptions with their beauty and bravery. Like the first New Suns anthology (winner of the World Fantasy, Locus, IGNYTE, and British Fantasy awards), this book liberates writers of many races to tell us tales no one has ever told. Many things come in twos: dualities, binaries, halves, and alternates. Twos are found throughout New Suns 2, in eighteen science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories revealing daring futures, hidden pasts, and present-day worlds filled with unmapped wonders. Including stories by Daniel H. Wilson, K. Tempest Bradford, Darcie Little Badger, Geetanjali Vandemark, John Chu, Nghi Vo, Tananarive Due, Alex Jennings, Karin Lowachee, Saad Hossain, Hiromi Goto, Minsoo Kang, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Malka Older, Kathleen Alcalá, Christopher Caldwell and Jaymee Goh with a foreword by Walter Mosley and an afterword by Dr. Grace Dillon.
| Author | : Suparno Banerjee |
| Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2020-10-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 178683667X |
This study draws from postcolonial theory, science fiction criticism, utopian studies, genre theory, Western and Indian philosophy and history to propose that Indian science fiction functions at the intersection of Indian and Western cultures. The author deploys a diachronic and comparative approach in examining the multilingual science fiction traditions of India to trace the overarching generic evolutions, which he complements with an analysis of specific patterns of hybridity in the genre’s formal and thematic elements – time, space, characters and the epistemologies that build the worlds in Indian science fiction. The work explores the larger patterns and connections visible despite the linguistic and cultural diversities of Indian science fiction traditions.
| Author | : John L. Hennessey |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2023-12-14 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 303142235X |
This open access book demonstrates that despite different epistemological starting points, history and speculative fiction perform similar work in “making the strange familiar” and “making the familiar strange” by taking their readers on journeys through space and time. Excellent history, like excellent speculative fiction, should cause readers to reconsider crucial aspects of their society that they normally overlook or lead them to reflect on radically different forms of social organization. Drawing on Gunlög Fur’s postcolonial concept of concurrences, and with contributions that explore diverse examples of speculative fiction and historical encounters using a variety of disciplinary approaches, this volume provides new perspectives on colonialism, ecological destruction, the nature of humanity, and how to envision a better future.
