Science Fiction: Ten Explorations
| Author | : Colin N. Manlove |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 1986-06-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1349072591 |
Science Fiction Ten Explorations
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Distant Gardens
| Author | : Sara Codair |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 398 |
| Release | : 2021-08 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781735076829 |
Rules were made to be broken. From terraformed outposts to magical realms, journey to worlds where deadly plants, rampant biodiversity, or failed terraforming have created irresistible opportunities for those brave enough to seize them. New worlds, found family, mystical secrets, and deadly science weave together in this lesbian-centric anthology focusing on a very different kind of first time-a first encounter with a world, or being, entirely unlike our own. If you like diverse stories with lesbian heroines practicing science, magic, and seduction, buy Distant Gardens today!
Science Fiction
| Author | : Adam Roberts |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 2006-06-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1134211791 |
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.
Science Fiction
| Author | : Adam Charles Roberts |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 172 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Men in black (Motion picture) |
| ISBN | : 9780415366687 |
'Science Fiction' offers a critical account of the phenomenon of science fiction, illustrating the critical terminology and following the contours of its continuing history. The impact of technological advances on the genre is discussed.
Teaching Science Fiction
| Author | : A. Sawyer |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2011-03-24 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0230300391 |
Teaching Science Fiction is the first text in thirty years to explore the pedagogic potential of that most intellectually stimulating and provocative form of popular literature: science fiction. Innovative and academically lively, it offers valuable insights into how SF can be taught historically, culturally and practically at university level.
The Origins of Science Fiction
| Author | : Michael Newton |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 454 |
| Release | : 2022 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0198853610 |
A selection of science-fiction tales from the close of the 'Romantic' period to the end of the First World War. It gathers together classic short stories, from Edgar Allan Poe's playful hoaxes to Gertrude Barrows Bennett's feminist fantasy.
The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction
| Author | : Gerry Canavan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2015-01-26 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1316240274 |
The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience. Science fiction in America has long served to reflect the country's hopes, desires, ambitions, and fears. The ideas and conventions associated with science fiction are pervasive throughout American film and television, comics and visual arts, games and gaming, and fandom, as well as across the culture writ large. Through essays that address not only the history of science fiction in America but also the influence and significance of American science fiction throughout media and fan culture, this companion serves as a key resource for scholars, teachers, students, and fans of science fiction.
Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Literature
| Author | : Brian M. Stableford |
| Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
| Total Pages | : 512 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780810849389 |
This reference tracks the development of speculative fiction influenced by the advancement of science and the idea of progress from the eighteenth century to the present day. The major authors and publications of the genre and significant subgenres are covered. Additionally there are entries on fields of science and technology which have been particularly prolific in provoking such speculation. The list of acronyms and abbreviations, the chronology covering the literature from the 1700s through the present, the introductory essay, and the dictionary entries provide science fiction novices and enthusiasts as well as serious writers and critics with a wonderful foundation for understanding the realm of science fiction literature. The extensive bibliography that includes books, journals, fanzines, and websites demonstrates that science fiction literature commands a massive following.
Science Fiction After 1900
| Author | : Brooks Landon |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2014-05-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1136761187 |
First published in 2003. Brooks Landon analyses science fiction not as a set of rules for writers, but as a set of expectations for readers. He presents science fiction as a social phenomenon that moves beyond literary experience through a sense of mission based on the belief that SF can be a tool to help you think. He offers a broad overview of the genre and the stages through which it has developed in the twentieth century from the dime store novel through the New Wave of the '60s, the cyberpunk '80s, and soft agenda SF of the '90s. The writers he examines range for E. M. Forster and John W. Campbell to Philip K. Dick and Ursula K. Le Guin. He also examines the large body of criticism now devoted to the genre and includes a bibliographic essay and a list of recommended titles.
Science Fiction and Empire
| Author | : Patricia Kerslake |
| Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2007-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1846310245 |
From its beginnings, science fiction has experimented with imperialistic scenarios of alien invasion, extraterrestrial exploitation, xenophobia, and colonial conquest. In Science Fiction and Empire, Patricia Kerslake brings contemporary thinking about postcolonialism and imperialism to bear on a variety of classic sci-fi novels and films, including The War of the Worlds, Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris, and Star Wars. The first book to identify the consequences of empire in science fiction, Kerslake’s study is a compelling investigation of the political ramifications of how we imagine our future. “Science Fiction and Empire is thought-provoking and insightful, . . . the kind of large-scale postcolonial work that science fiction has needed for quite some time.”—Science Fiction Studies
