A companion to science fiction
By: edited by David Seed.
Contributors: Seed, David.
Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;; 34
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 612
Subjects: Science fiction -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Approaching science fiction; title: pt. I. Surveying the field.  Hard reading : the hard reading : the challenges of science fiction / Tom Shippey; title: The origins of science fiction / George Slusser; title: Science fiction/criticism / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.; title: Science-fiction magazines : the crucibles of change / MIke Ashley; title: pt. II. Topics and debates.  Utopia / Phillip E. Wegner; title: Science, fiction and religion / Stephen R.L. Clark; title: "Monsters of the imagination" : Gothic,science, fiction / Fred Botting; title: Science fiction and ecology / Brian Stableford; title: Feminist fabulation / Marleen S. Barr; title: Time and identity in feminist science fiction / Jenny Wolmark; title: Science fiction and the Cold War / M. Keith Booker; title: pt. III. Genres and movements.  Hard science fiction / Gary Westfahl; title: The new wave / Rob Latham; title: Cyberpunk / Mark Bould; title: Science fiction and postmodernism / Veronica Hollinger; title: The renewal of "hard" science fiction / Donald M. Hassler; title: pt. IV. Science fiction film.  American science fiction film : an overview / Vivian Sobchack; title: Figurations of the cyborg in contemporary science fiction novels and fiction / Christine Cornea; title: British television science fiction / Peter Wright; title: pt. V. The international scene.  Canadian science fiction / Douglas Barbour; title: Japanese and Asian science fiction / Takayuki Tatsumi; title: Australian science fiction / Van Ikin and Sean McMullen; title: pt. VI. Key writers.  The grandeur of H.G. Wells / Robert Crossley; title: Isaac Asimov / John Clute; title: John Wyndham : the facts of life sextet / David Ketterer; title: Philip Dick / Christopher Palmer; title: Samuel Delaney : a biographical and critical overview / Carl Freedman; title: Ursula K. Le Guin /  Warren G. Rochelle; title: Gwyneth Jones anxietiesanxities of science fiction / Andy Sawyer; title: Arthur C. Clarke / Edward James; title: Greg Egan / Russell Blackford; title: pt. VII. Readings.  Mary Shelley : Frankenstein : or, the modern Prometheus / Susan E. Lederer and Richard M. Ratzan; title: Charlotte Perkins Gilman : Herland / Jill Rudd; title: Aldous Huxley : Brave new world / David Seed; title: Ray Bradbury : Fahrenheit 451 / Brian Baker; title: Joanna Russ : The female man / Jeanne Cortiel; title: J.G. Ballard : Crash / Roger Luckhurst; title: Margaret Atwood : The handmaid's tale / Faye Hammill; title: William Gibson : Neuromancer / Andrew M. Butler; title: Kim Stanley Robinson : Mars trilogy / Carol Franko; title: Iain M. Banks : Excession / Farah Mendlesohn.