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Roberts, Adam (Adam Charles)
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
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Publisher: Routledge,
Pub date: 2000.
Pages: vi, 204 p. ;
ISBN: 0415192048
Item info: 2 copies available at Main Library.
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Science fiction
Roberts, Adam (Adam Charles)

Summary

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 Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Author Biography

Adam Roberts is Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Table of Contents

   Series Editor's Preface vii
   Acknowledgements ix
   1 Defining science fiction 1
   One definition 1
   Three definitions 7
Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
Science fiction
Roberts, Adam (Adam Charles)
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Leader: am4aec
Key: OC 04704381
Data source: OC
Fixed field data: 991216s2000 enk b 001 0 eng
LCCN: 99087223
Natl bibliography #: (GB99-X9171)
ISBN: 0415192048 (hbk)
ISBN: 0415192056 (pbk)
Local system #: (OCoLC)41338934
Cataloging source: DLC DLC UKM C#P KUT
Authentication code: pcc
Local holdings: OCPP
LC Call Number: P96.S34 R58 2000
DDC class no.: 809.3/8762 21
Local DDC call #: 809.38762 R643, 2000
Personal name: Roberts, Adam (Adam Charles)
Title: Science fiction / Adam Roberts.
Publication info: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Description: vi, 204 p. ; 20 cm.
Series title: (The new critical idiom)
Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-200) and index.
Contents note: 1. Defining science fiction: one definition -- Three definitions -- The SF novum -- Difference -- Prediction and nostalgia -- Case study: Frank Herbert, Dune (1965) -- 2. The history of science fiction, from beginnings to the 1960s: origins -- Jules Verne and H.G. Wells -- Pulp SF -- The golden age: Asimov -- New wave -- Case study: Star wars (1977) and intertextuality -- 3. Gender: feminist science fiction -- Women and aliens -- Case study: Ursula Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) -- 4. Race: representing race -- Race and Star trek -- Alien abduction -- Case study: blackness in Sonnenfeld's Men in black (1997) -- 5. Technology and metaphor: spaceships -- Robots -- Cyberspace -- Case study: William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984) -- 6. Conclusion.
Held by: MAIN
Topical subject: Science fiction--History and criticism.
OCLC-MARC processing: E0 OCP