Science fiction

Adam Charles Roberts

Routledge, 2000 - Fiction - 204 pages

Science fiction is one of the most vigorous and exciting areas of modern culture -- from ground breaking novels of ideas to blockbusters on the cinema screen. In Science Fiction, Adam Roberts offers a clear and engaging account of the phenomenon, illustrating the critical terminology and following the contours of its ongoing history. You will find that this book: -- provides a concise history of science fiction, and explores the key concepts in SF criticism and theory-- focuses particularly on the impact that postmodernism and technological advances have had on the subject-- examines the interactions between science fiction and science fact -- with events such as the moon landings, the Challenger disaster and the film Apollo 13

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Review: Science Fiction (New Critical Idiom )

User Review  - Maddy - Goodreads

NOthing startling here, critically, but did recommend Left Hand of Darkness, for which I am grateful.

Review: Science Fiction (New Critical Idiom )

User Review  - Colin - Goodreads

What makes an SF story SF? Roberts takes all the jargon and explains it so comprehensively and so clearly that even I understood it.

About the author

Adam Roberts is Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London. His sequence of SF novels is to be published by Orion.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Science fiction; The New Critical Idiom
• Author: Adam Charles Roberts
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Routledge, 2000
• ISBN: 0415192056, 9780415192057
• Length: 204 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Science Fiction / General