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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

The Science Fiction Handbook

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Paperback / softback by M. Keith Booker , Anne-Marie Thomas

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 31/03/2009
    ISBN13: 9781405162067, 978-1405162067
    ISBN10: 1405162066

    Number of Pages: 356

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

    Description

    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

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