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
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