Science Fiction Handbook

Science Fiction Handbook

EnglishHardback
Booker M. Keith
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
EAN: 9781405162050
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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
EAN 9781405162050
ISBN 1405162058
Binding Hardback
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Publication date April 9, 2009
Pages 360
Language English
Dimensions 237 x 160 x 26
Country United Kingdom
Readership General
Authors Booker M. Keith; Thomas Anne-Marie
Edition 1. Auflage
Series Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
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