This outstanding volume offers a clear and critically engaged account of the phenomenon of science fiction. Adam Roberts provides a concise history of science fiction also explaining key concepts in SF criticism and theory, in chapters such as Gender, Race and Technology. He examines the interactions between science fiction and science fact, anchoring each chapter with a case study drawn from short story, book or film, from Frank Herbert's Dune to Barry Sonnenfeld's Men in Black.
Introducing the reader to nineteenth-century, Pulp, Golden Age, New Wave, Feminist and Cyberpunk science fictions, this is the essential guide to a major cultural movement.
| ISBN: | 9780415192040 |
| Publication date: | 18th May 2000 |
| Author: | Adam Roberts |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor and Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 176 pages |
| Series: | The New Critical Idiom |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: general Literary theory Science Fiction |
This outstanding volume offers a clear and critically engaged account of the phenomenon of science fiction. Adam Roberts provides a concise history of science fiction also explaining key concepts in SF criticism and theory, in chapters such as Gender, Race and Technology.
Science Fiction features in the following genres: Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Science Fiction
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Science Fiction was written by Adam Roberts and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor and Francis
Science Fiction has 176 pages
Yes it is part of The New Critical Idiom series