Science FictionFirst Published in 2002. This volume is about Science Fiction, its criticisms and teaching and covers the rise of science-fiction as a study and genre, looking at the work of H.G Wells, and the themes of epic, fable, language, cultures, its sociology, as a romance, and of a working daydream. |
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H G Wells | |
The Sociology of the Genre | |
Science Fiction as Romance | |
Science Fiction as Fable | |
Science Fiction as Epic | |
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Aldiss alien allegory Angenot appear Astounding Science Fiction attempt Bibliography C.S. Lewis Canticle for Leibowitz cognitive estrangement contemporary conventions course cultural Darko Darko Suvin Delany Delany’s discussion Earth Ekumen elements epic essay Estraven example experience extrapolation fable fandom fans fantasy formulas Frankenstein future history galactic imperialism genre Gernsback’s Gethen Guin’s Hand of Darkness Heinlein heroic Hillegas historical novels human Ibid idea imagination involved J.D. Bernal Kelvin Lem’s literary London Lukács Machine magazines man’s Martian Martian Time-Slip mode modern narrative nature nineteenth-century novelists paraliterature parody planet political popular reader readership reading realistic reality Rendezvous with Rama Sartorius science fiction science-fiction studies science-fiction writers scientific romance scientists self-conscious SF novels SF writers SF:ACG Sirens of Titan social criticism society sociology Solaris Solaristics space space-travel speculative Starman Jones story strange suggests Suvin technological texts themes theory traditional twentieth-century universe Ursula K utopian Verne vision Vonnegut’s Wells’s