num_pages: 317
description: Metamorphoses of Science Fiction is the origin point for decades of literary and theoretical criticism of science fiction and related genres. Darko Suvin's paradigm-setting definition of SF as the literature of cognitive estrangement established a robust theory of the genre that continues to spark fierce debate as well as inspiring myriad intellectual descendants and disciples. Suvin's centuries-spanning history of the genre links SF to a long tradition of utopian and satirical literatures crying out for a better world than this one showing how SF and the imagination of utopia are now forever intertwined.
language: English
title: Metamorphoses of science fiction: On the poetics and history of a literary genre
publisher: Yale University Press