Science fiction / Adam Roberts.
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| Autore: |
Roberts, Adam (Adam Charles)
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| Titolo: |
Science fiction / Adam Roberts.
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica: | vi, 204 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Disciplina: | 809.3/8762 |
| Titolo uniforme di collana: | New critical idiom. |
| Soggetto topico: | Narrativa scientifica - Storia e critica |
| Fantascienza - Storia e critica | |
| Science fiction - History and criticism | |
| 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. |
| ISBN: | 0415192048 (hc) |
| 0415192056 (pbk.) | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 991001309689707536 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. del Salento |
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