04062nam 2200541Ia 450 991096286670332120241122233012.014443103569781444310351(MiAaPQ)EBC7104575(CKB)24989761400041(PPN)151098875(MiAaPQ)EBC428197(Au-PeEL)EBL428197(CaPaEBR)ebr10303770(CaONFJC)MIL211716(OCoLC)476272987(EXLCZ)992498976140004120081023d2009 uy 0engurun#|||uuuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe science fiction handbook /M. Keith Booker and Anne-Marie Thomas1st ed.Chichester, West Sussex ;Malden, MA Wiley-Blackwell Pub.2009vii, 348 pWiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks SeriesIncludes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- The Science Fiction Handbook -- Contents -- Part 1 Introduction -- Science Fiction in Western Culture -- Part 2 Brief Historical Surveys of Science Fiction Subgenres -- The Time-Travel Narrative -- The Alien Invasion Narrative -- The Space Opera -- Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction -- Dystopian Science Fiction -- Utopian Fiction -- Feminism, Science Fiction, and Gender -- Science Fiction and Satire -- Cyberpunk and Posthuman Science Fiction -- Multicultural Science Fiction -- Part 3 Representative Science Fiction Authors -- Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) -- Margaret Atwood (1939-) -- Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) -- Samuel R. Delany (1942-) -- Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) -- William Gibson (1948-) -- Nicola Griffith (1960-) -- Joe Haldeman (1943-) -- Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) -- Nalo Hopkinson (1960-) -- Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-) -- Ian McDonald (1960-) -- China Miéville (1972-) -- George Orwell (1903-1950) -- Marge Piercy (1936-) -- Frederik Pohl (1919-) -- Kim Stanley Robinson (1952-) -- Neal Stephenson (1959-) -- H. G. Wells (1866-1946) -- Part 4 Discussions of Individual Texts -- H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895) -- H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (1898) -- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) -- Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (1950) -- Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kormbluth, The Space Merchants (1952) -- Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers (1959) -- Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) -- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974) -- Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (1974) -- Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) -- Samuel R. Delany, Trouble on Triton (1976) -- William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984) -- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1985) -- Octavia Butler, ''Xenogenesis'' Trilogy (1987-1989) -- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (1992) -- Nicola Griffith, Ammonite (1994).Kim Stanley Robinson, ''Mars'' Trilogy (1993-1996) -- Nalo Hopkinson, Midnight Robber (2000) -- China Miéville, Perdido Street Station (2000) -- Ian McDonald, River of Gods (2005) -- Glossary -- Selected Bibliography -- Index."This book represents an extremely useful pedagogical tool, that will find a home in both research libraries and undergraduate classrooms."--Phillip Wegner, University of Florida.Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks SeriesScience fiction, EnglishHistory and criticismHandbooks, manuals, etcScience fiction, AmericanHistory and criticismHandbooks, manuals, etcScience fictionHistory and criticismHandbooks, manuals, etcScience fiction, EnglishHistory and criticismScience fiction, AmericanHistory and criticismScience fictionHistory and criticism823.087609Booker M. Keith1133899Thomas Anne-Marie1857507MiAaPQt9910962866703321The science fiction handbook4458377UNINA