The Science Fiction Handbook Paperback / softback
by M. Keith (University of Arkansas) Booker, Anne-Marie (Austin Community College) Thomas
Part of the Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks series
Paperback / softback
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The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible survey of one of the literary world's most fascinating genres. Includes separate historical surveys of key subgenres including time-travel narratives, post-apocalyptic and post-disaster narratives and works of utopian and dystopian science fictionEach subgenre survey includes an extensive list of relevant critical readings, recommended novels in the subgenre, and recommended films relevant to the subgenreFeatures entries on a number of key science fiction authors and extensive discussion of major science fiction novels or sequencesWriters and works include Isaac Asimov; Margaret Atwood; George Orwell; Ursula K.
Le Guin; The War of the Worlds (1898); Starship Troopers (1959); Mars Trilogy (1993-6); and many moreA 'Science Fiction Glossary' completes this indispensable Handbook
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:356 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:31/03/2009
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- ISBN:9781405162067
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:356 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:31/03/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9781405162067
