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The Science Fiction Handbook
Blackwell Literature Handbooks
ISBN/EAN: 9781405162067
Umbreit-Nr.: 1937125
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 356 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 31.03.2009
Auflage: 1/2009
- Kurztext
- Few literary genres can expand the boundaries of our imagination as much as science fiction. The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive historical survey of literary works of science fiction and its most popular sub-genres. Beginning with a broad overview of science fiction's emergence as a literary genre, the Handbook goes on to provide detailed historical surveys of its distinct sub-genres, whose development often paralleled society's technological advances. These include works of time-travel and alternative history narratives; alien-invasion narratives; space exploration and space opera; post-apocalyptic and post-disaster narratives; works of utopian and dystopian science fiction; feminism and gender themes in science fiction; science fiction as satire; cyberpunk and post-human science fiction; and multicultural science fiction. The authors also offer brief biographies of several noted science fiction writers along with extended critical analyses of 20 of the genre's most significant works.