Science Fiction

"Science Fiction" is a fascinating and comprehensive introduction to one of the most popular areas of modern culture. This second edition reflects how the field is rapidly changing in both its practice and its critical reception. 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 Herbert's "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.

ISBN 0415366682   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780415366687 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 204 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Published in London Imprint Routledge   Series title The New Critical Idiom Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780415061414 Publication date 15 Dec 2005   Height (mm) 198 Library of Congress 2005015456   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 809.38762   Spine width (mm) 13 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly Pages 168

1		Defining science fiction		1
2		The history of SF		37
3		SF and gender		71
4		SF and race		94
5		SF and technology		110
6		Conclusion		134

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