Few literary genres can expand the boundaries of our imagination as much as science fiction. The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive historicalsurvey of literary works of science fiction and its most popular sub-genres. Beginning with a broad overview of science fiction's emergence as a literary genre, the Handbook goes on to provide detailed historical surveys of its distinct sub-genres, whose development often paralleled society's technological advances. These include works of time-travel and alternative history narratives; alien-invasion narratives; space exploration and space opera; post-apocalypticand post-disaster narratives; works of utopian and dystopian science fiction;feminism and gender themes in science fiction; science fiction as satire; cyberpunk and post-human science fiction; and multicultural science fiction. The authors also offer brief biographies of several noted science fiction writers along with extended critical analyses of 20 of the genre's most significant works."
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-6206-7
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 360
- Fecha Publicación: 31/03/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés