The Cambridge companion to science fiction / 
 Companion to science fiction 
edited by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn. 
 - Cambridge ;  New York :  Cambridge University Press,  2003. 
 - xxvii, 295 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-284) and index. 
<br/><br/> Reading science fiction /  Science fiction before the genre /  Magazine era : 1926-1960 /  New Wave and backwash : 1960-1980 /  Science fiction from 1980 to the present /  Film and television /  Science fiction and its editors /  Marxist theory and science fiction /  Feminist theory and science fiction /  Postmodernism and science fiction /  Science fiction and queer theory /  Icons of science fiction /  Science fiction and the life sciences /  Hard science fiction /  Space opera /  Alternate history /  Farah Mendlesohn --  Brian Stableford --  Brian Attebery --  Damien Broderick --  John Clute --  Mark Bould --  Gary K. Wolfe--  Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. --  Veronica Hollinger --  Andrew M. Butler --  Wendy Pearson --  Gwyneth Jones --  Joan Slonczewski and Michael Levy --  Kathryn Cramer --  Gary Westfahl --  Andy Duncan.  Introduction,  Utopias and anti-utopias /  Politics and science fiction /  Gender in science fiction /  Race and ethnicity in science fiction /  Religion and science fiction /  Edward James --  Ken Macleod --  Helen Merrick --  Elisabeth Anne Leonard --  Farah Mendlesohn. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0521816262 (hardback) 0521016576 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003043808 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Science fiction--History and criticism. 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 3377.5 .S3  / C36 2003