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"Adam Roberts examines the history of science fiction and the critical debate which surrounds this, providing beginners with a springboard for further study, but also challenging more advanced students with original interpretations of key SF texts. These range from Ursula Le Guin's 1969 fe...

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Main Author: Roberts, Adam (Adam Charles)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Series:New critical idiom
Subjects:
Science fiction > History and criticism.
Science fiction.
Science fiction-films.
Science-Fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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