The Science Fiction Handbook Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition
by M. Keith Booker; Anne-Marie Thomas
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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.
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- Title The Science Fiction Handbook
- Author M. Keith Booker; Anne-Marie Thomas
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 360
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
- Date 2009-04-27
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9781405162050 / 1405162058
- Weight 1.43 lbs (0.65 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.81 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.06 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, American - History and, Science fiction - History and criticism
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008044598
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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