The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible survey of one of the literary world's most fascinating genres.
* 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
* Each subgenre survey includes an extensive list of relevant critical readings, recommended novels in the subgenre, and recommended films relevant to the subgenre
* Features entries on a number of key science fiction authors and extensive discussion of major science fiction novels or sequences
* 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
* A 'Science Fiction Glossary' completes this indispensable Handbook
* 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
* Each subgenre survey includes an extensive list of relevant critical readings, recommended novels in the subgenre, and recommended films relevant to the subgenre
* Features entries on a number of key science fiction authors and extensive discussion of major science fiction novels or sequences
* 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
* A 'Science Fiction Glossary' completes this indispensable Handbook
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781405162067
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-6206-7
- Verlag: Open Stax Textbooks
- Erscheinungstermin: 20.04.2009
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2009
- Serie: Blackwell Literature Handbooks
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 529 g
- Seiten: 356
- Format (B x H x T): 154 x 232 x 22 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt