Science fiction
By: Jesse G. Cunningham, book editor.
Contributors: Cunningham, Jesse G.
Series: The Greenhaven Press companion to literary movements and genres; Greenhaven Press companion to literary movements and genres
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: San Diego, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Science fiction -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: Science fiction as a literary movement / William Atheling; title: The literature of human possibility / Ben Bova; title: Science fiction as classic romance / Janice Antczak; title: The potential for social criticism / Robert Bloch; title: The feminist struggle in science fiction / Debra Benita Shaw; title: Verne and Wells: the two fathers of modern science fiction / Kingsley Amis; title: An insider remembers the pulp era; title: Jack Williamson; title: New worlds and the new wave / Brian W. Aldiss with David Wingrove; title: A cyberpunk manifesto / Bruce Sterling; title: Negative utopias and Orwell's dark vision / Erich Fromm; title: The paradoxes of time travel / Paul A. Carter; title: Understanding the alien / Gregory Benford; title: The robot as symbol / Sam Moskowitz; title: Religious and spiritual aspects of science fiction / Tom Woodman; title: Frankenstein and the female voice in science fiction / Jane Donawerth; title: Asimov and the morality of artificial intelligence / Patricia S. Warrick; title: The nature of reality / Philip K. Dick; title: An un-credible genre / Michel Butor; title: Good and bad mythmaking / Ursula K. Le Guin.