The Science Fiction Handbook
Autor: | Booker, M Keith Thomas, Anne-Marie |
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EAN: | 9781405162067 |
Sachgruppe: | Pädagogik |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 356 |
Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 20.04.2009 |
Schlagworte: | Literature - Classics / Criticism |
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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