Booker, M. Keith
The Science Fiction Handbook
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
Avainsanat: Science Fiction, Sci Fi, Postapocalyptic, Dystopian, Utopian, Atwood, Orwell, Handmaid's Tale
- Tekijä(t)
- Booker, M. Keith
- Thomas, Anne-Marie
- Julkaisija
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Julkaisuvuosi
- 2009
- Kieli
- en
- Painos
- 1
- Sarja
- Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
- Sivumäärä
- 360 sivua
- Kategoria
- Kirjallisuudentutkimus
- Tiedostomuoto
- E-kirja
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781444310351
- Painetun ISBN
- 9781405162050
