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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

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Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781405162067
  • ISBN-10: 1405162066
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Publish Date: April 2009
  • Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.14 pounds
  • Page Count: 356

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