Science Fiction: Ten Explorations
Author : Colin N. Manlove
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 18,30 MB
Release : 1986-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1349072591
Distant Gardens
Author : Sara Codair
Publisher :
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 22,50 MB
Release : 2021-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781735076829
Book Description
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
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 13,17 MB
Release : 2006-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134211791
Book Description
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
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 31,14 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Men in black (Motion picture)
ISBN : 9780415366687
Book Description
'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
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 0230300391
Book Description
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
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0198853610
Book Description
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
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316240274
Book Description
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
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,74 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810849389
Book Description
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
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,4 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136761187
Book Description
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
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 30,49 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1846310245
Book Description
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
