£97.95
Publication Date:
30 Mar 2009
For delivery:
Download available
Description
The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible survey of one of the literary world's most fascinating genres. O Includes separate historical surveys of key subgenres including time-travel narratives, post-apocalyptic and post-disaster narratives and works of utopian and dystopian science fiction O Each subgenre survey includes an extensive list of relevant critical readings, recommended novels in the subgenre, and recommended films relevant to the subgenre O Features entries on a number of key science fiction authors and extensive discussion of major science fiction novels or sequences O Writers and works include Isaac Asimov; Margaret Atwood; George Orwell; Ursula K. Le Guin; The War of the Worlds (1898); Starship Troopers (1959); Mars Trilogy (1993-6); and many more O A 'Science Fiction Glossary' completes this indispensable Handbook
Contents
Part I: Introduction. Science Fiction in Western Culture. Part II: Brief Historical Surveys of Science Fiction Subgenres. The Time-Travel Invasion. The Alien Invasion Narrative. The Space Opera. Apocalyptic and Post-Disaster Narratives. Dystopian Science Fiction. Utopian Fiction. Feminism, Science Fiction, and Gender. Science Fiction and Satire. Cyberpunk and Posthuman Science Fiction. Multicultural Science Fiction. Part III: Representative Science Fiction Authors. Isaac Asimov (1920-1992). Margaret Atwood (1939-). Octavia 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 Mieville (1972-). George Orwell (1903-1950). Marge Piercy (1936-). Frederik Pohl (1919-). Kim Stanley Robinson (1952-). Neal Stephenson (1959-). H. G. Wells (1866-1946). Part IV: 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 (1992-1996). Nalo Hopkinson, Midnight Robber (2000). China Mieville, Perdido Street Station (2000). Ian McDonald, River of Gods (2005). Glossary. Selected Bibliography. Index.
Accessing your eBook through Kortext
Once purchased, you can view your eBook through the Kortext app, available to download for Windows, Android and iOS devices. Once you have downloaded the app, your eBook will be available on your Kortext digital bookshelf and can even be downloaded to view offline anytime, anywhere, helping you learn without limits.
In addition, you'll have access to Kortext's smart study tools including highlighting, notetaking, copy and paste, and easy reference export.
To download the Kortext app, head to your device's app store or visit https://app.kortext.com to sign up and read through your browser.
NB: eBook is only available for a single-user licence (i.e. not for multiple / networked users).
