Science fiction
Subtitle: stories and contexts
By: edited by Heather Masri
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martins
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1242
ISBN-13: 9780312450151
Description: A selection of fiction by classic and emerging writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, grouped into major themes: alien encounters, artificial life, time, utopias and dystopias, disasters and apocalypses, and evolutions. The stories are complemented by contextual documents that suggest the scholarly, theoretical, and historical currents that drove the development of the genre.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 11-16) and index.