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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001309689707536

Autore

Roberts, Adam (Adam Charles)

Titolo

Science fiction / Adam Roberts.

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000

ISBN

0415192048 (hc)

0415192056 (pbk.)

Descrizione fisica

vi, 204 p. ; 21 cm.

Collana

New critical idiom

The new critical idiom

Disciplina

809.3/8762

Soggetti

Narrativa scientifica - Storia e critica

Fantascienza - Storia e critica

Science fiction - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-200) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Defining science fiction. One definition. Three definitions. The SF novum. Difference. Prediction and nostalgia. Case study: Frank Herbert, Dune (1965) -- 2. The history of science fiction: from beginnings to the 1960s. Origins. Jules Verne and H G Wells. Pulp SF. The Golden Age: Asimov. New wave. Case study: Star Wars (1977) and intertextuality -- 3. Gender. Feminist science fiction. Women and aliens. Case study: Ursula Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) -- 4. Race. Representing race. Race and Star Trek. Alien abduction. Case study: blackness in Sonnenfeld's Men in Black (1997) -- 5. Technology and metaphor. Spaceships. Robots. Cyberspace. Case study: William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984) -- 6. Conclusion.