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Science Fiction

Adam Roberts, John Drakakis
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      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 definedexplanations of key concepts in Science Fiction criticism and theory through chapters such as Gender, Race, Technology and Metaphorexamines the interactions between Science Fiction and Science Factanchors 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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Adam Roberts, John Drakakis EAN: 9780415366687 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 680 g HEIGHT: 198 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2005-12-15 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory WIDTH: 129 cm SPINE:

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      Literature: history and criticism

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      Adam Roberts is Professor of English at Royal Holloway, University of London. His SF novel Salt (Gollancz, 2000) was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. His second novel, On (Gollancz, 2001), is now available.
      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 definedexplanations of key concepts in Science Fiction criticism and theory through chapters such as Gender, Race, Technology and Metaphorexamines the interactions between Science Fiction and Science Factanchors 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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Adam Roberts, John Drakakis EAN: 9780415366687 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 680 g HEIGHT: 198 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2005-12-15 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory WIDTH: 129 cm SPINE:

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      Literature: history and criticism

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      Adam Roberts is Professor of English at Royal Holloway, University of London. His SF novel Salt (Gollancz, 2000) was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. His second novel, On (Gollancz, 2001), is now available.

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