The Cambridge companion to science fiction / edited by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.Description: xxvii, 295 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0521816262 (hardback)
  • 0521016576 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Companion to science fiction
Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN 3377.5 .S3 C36 2003
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Contents:
Introduction, Reading science fiction / Farah Mendlesohn -- Science fiction before the genre / Brian Stableford -- Magazine era : 1926-1960 / Brian Attebery -- New Wave and backwash : 1960-1980 / Damien Broderick -- Science fiction from 1980 to the present / John Clute -- Film and television / Mark Bould -- Science fiction and its editors / Gary K. Wolfe-- Marxist theory and science fiction / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. -- Feminist theory and science fiction / Veronica Hollinger -- Postmodernism and science fiction / Andrew M. Butler -- Science fiction and queer theory / Wendy Pearson -- Icons of science fiction / Gwyneth Jones -- Science fiction and the life sciences / Joan Slonczewski and Michael Levy -- Hard science fiction / Kathryn Cramer -- Space opera / Gary Westfahl -- Alternate history / Andy Duncan.
Utopias and anti-utopias / Edward James -- Politics and science fiction / Ken Macleod -- Gender in science fiction / Helen Merrick -- Race and ethnicity in science fiction / Elisabeth Anne Leonard -- Religion and science fiction / Farah Mendlesohn.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-284) and index.

Introduction, Reading science fiction / Farah Mendlesohn -- Science fiction before the genre / Brian Stableford -- Magazine era : 1926-1960 / Brian Attebery -- New Wave and backwash : 1960-1980 / Damien Broderick -- Science fiction from 1980 to the present / John Clute -- Film and television / Mark Bould -- Science fiction and its editors / Gary K. Wolfe-- Marxist theory and science fiction / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. -- Feminist theory and science fiction / Veronica Hollinger -- Postmodernism and science fiction / Andrew M. Butler -- Science fiction and queer theory / Wendy Pearson -- Icons of science fiction / Gwyneth Jones -- Science fiction and the life sciences / Joan Slonczewski and Michael Levy -- Hard science fiction / Kathryn Cramer -- Space opera / Gary Westfahl -- Alternate history / Andy Duncan.

Utopias and anti-utopias / Edward James -- Politics and science fiction / Ken Macleod -- Gender in science fiction / Helen Merrick -- Race and ethnicity in science fiction / Elisabeth Anne Leonard -- Religion and science fiction / Farah Mendlesohn.

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