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The Science Fiction Handbook
Contributor(s): Booker, M. Keith (Author), Thomas, Anne-Marie (Author)
ISBN: 1405162058     ISBN-13: 9781405162050
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $123.70  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2009
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2008044598
Series: Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.43 lbs) 360 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher Description:
The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible survey of one of the literary world's most fascinating genres.
  • Includes separate historical surveys of key subgenres including time-travel narratives, post-apocalyptic and post-disaster narratives and works of utopian and dystopian science fiction
  • Each subgenre survey includes an extensive list of relevant critical readings, recommended novels in the subgenre, and recommended films relevant to the subgenre
  • Features entries on a number of key science fiction authors and extensive discussion of major science fiction novels or sequences
  • Writers and works include Isaac Asimov; Margaret Atwood; George Orwell; Ursula K. Le Guin; The War of the Worlds (1898); Starship Troopers (1959); Mars Trilogy (1993-6); and many more
  • A 'Science Fiction Glossary' completes this indispensable Handbook