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 Herberts 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.

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Pages:168 pages
Publisher:Taylor and Francis
Publication Date:21/12/2005
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- Literature: history & criticism
- Literary studies: general
ISBN:9780203019368

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