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Author : Colin N. Manlove
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2014-01-14
ISBN 13 : 9781349072613
Pages : 249 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (349 downloads)
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Author : Colin Nicholas Manlove
Publisher :
Release Date : 1986
ISBN 13 :
Pages : 272 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download Science Fiction PDF Format Full Free by Colin Nicholas Manlove and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colin N. Manlove
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 1986-06-18
ISBN 13 : 1349072591
Pages : 249 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (72 downloads)
Download Science Fiction: Ten Explorations PDF Format Full Free by Colin N. Manlove and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-06-18 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2006-06-19
ISBN 13 : 1134211791
Pages : 168 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (211 downloads)
Download Science Fiction PDF Format Full Free by Adam Roberts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-06-19 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science Fiction is a fascinating and comprehensive introduction to one of the most popular areas of modern culture. This second edition reflects how the field is rapidly changing in both its practice and its critical reception. With an entirely new conclusion and all other chapters fully reworked and updated, this volume includes: a concise history of science fiction and the ways in which the genre has been used and defined explanations of key concepts in Science Fiction criticism and theory through chapters such as Gender, Race, Technology and Metaphor examines the interactions between Science Fiction and Science Fact anchors each chapter with a case study drawn from short story, book or film, from Frank Herbert’s Dune to Star Wars, from The Left Hand of Darkness to Neuromancer. Introducing the reader to nineteenth-century, Pulp, Golden Age, New Wave, Feminist and Cyberpunk science fictions, this is the essential contemporary guide to a major cultural movement.
Author : A. Sawyer
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2011-03-24
ISBN 13 : 0230300391
Pages : 266 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (3 downloads)
Download Teaching Science Fiction PDF Format Full Free by A. Sawyer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching Science Fiction is the first text in thirty years to explore the pedagogic potential of that most intellectually stimulating and provocative form of popular literature: science fiction. Innovative and academically lively, it offers valuable insights into how SF can be taught historically, culturally and practically at university level.
Author : Adam Charles Roberts
Publisher : Psychology Press
Release Date : 2000
ISBN 13 : 0415192056
Pages : 215 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (192 downloads)
Download Science Fiction PDF Format Full Free by Adam Charles Roberts and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science Fiction offers a critical account of the phenomenon of science fiction, illustrating the critical terminology and following the contours of its continuing history. The impact of technological advances on the genre is discussed.
Author : Brooks Landon
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2014-05-01
ISBN 13 : 1136761187
Pages : 235 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (761 downloads)
Download Science Fiction After 1900 PDF Format Full Free by Brooks Landon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2003. Brooks Landon analyses science fiction not as a set of rules for writers, but as a set of expectations for readers. He presents science fiction as a social phenomenon that moves beyond literary experience through a sense of mission based on the belief that SF can be a tool to help you think. He offers a broad overview of the genre and the stages through which it has developed in the twentieth century from the dime store novel through the New Wave of the '60s, the cyberpunk '80s, and soft agenda SF of the '90s. The writers he examines range for E. M. Forster and John W. Campbell to Philip K. Dick and Ursula K. Le Guin. He also examines the large body of criticism now devoted to the genre and includes a bibliographic essay and a list of recommended titles.
Author : Gerry Canavan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-26
ISBN 13 : 1316240274
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (24 downloads)
Download The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction PDF Format Full Free by Gerry Canavan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience. Science fiction in America has long served to reflect the country's hopes, desires, ambitions, and fears. The ideas and conventions associated with science fiction are pervasive throughout American film and television, comics and visual arts, games and gaming, and fandom, as well as across the culture writ large. Through essays that address not only the history of science fiction in America but also the influence and significance of American science fiction throughout media and fan culture, this companion serves as a key resource for scholars, teachers, students, and fans of science fiction.
Author : Michael Newton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-04
ISBN 13 : 0198853610
Pages : 454 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (853 downloads)
Download The Origins of Science Fiction PDF Format Full Free by Michael Newton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-04 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself. What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like Shrewsbury?', The Machine Stops, E. M. Forster This anthology provides a selection of science-fiction tales from the close of the 'Romantic' period to the end of the First World War. It gathers together classic short stories, from Edgar Allan Poe's playful hoaxes to Gertrude Barrows Bennett's feminist fantasy. In this way, the book shows the vitality and literary diversity of the field, and also expresses something of the potent appeal of the visionary, the fascination with science, and the allure of an imagined future that characterised this period. An excellent resource for those interested in science fiction, and also an essential volume for understanding the development of the genre. In his introduction, Michael Newton draws together literary influences from Jonathan Swift to Mary Shelley, the interest in the irrational and dreaming mind, and the relation of the tales to the fact of Empire and the discoveries made by anthropology. He also considers how the figure of the alien and non-human 'other' complicated contemporary definitions of the human being.
Author : Brian M. Stableford
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2004
ISBN 13 : 9780810849389
Pages : 512 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (81 downloads)
Download Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Literature PDF Format Full Free by Brian M. Stableford and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference tracks the development of speculative fiction influenced by the advancement of science and the idea of progress from the eighteenth century to the present day. The major authors and publications of the genre and significant subgenres are covered. Additionally there are entries on fields of science and technology which have been particularly prolific in provoking such speculation. The list of acronyms and abbreviations, the chronology covering the literature from the 1700s through the present, the introductory essay, and the dictionary entries provide science fiction novices and enthusiasts as well as serious writers and critics with a wonderful foundation for understanding the realm of science fiction literature. The extensive bibliography that includes books, journals, fanzines, and websites demonstrates that science fiction literature commands a massive following.
Author : Patricia Kerslake
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2007-01-01
ISBN 13 : 1846310245
Pages : 226 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (31 downloads)
Download Science Fiction and Empire PDF Format Full Free by Patricia Kerslake and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its beginnings, science fiction has experimented with imperialistic scenarios of alien invasion, extraterrestrial exploitation, xenophobia, and colonial conquest. In Science Fiction and Empire, Patricia Kerslake brings contemporary thinking about postcolonialism and imperialism to bear on a variety of classic sci-fi novels and films, including The War of the Worlds, Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris, and Star Wars. The first book to identify the consequences of empire in science fiction, Kerslake’s study is a compelling investigation of the political ramifications of how we imagine our future. “Science Fiction and Empire is thought-provoking and insightful, . . . the kind of large-scale postcolonial work that science fiction has needed for quite some time.”—Science Fiction Studies
Author : Stefan Weißhampel
Publisher : diplom.de
Release Date : 2008-02-26
ISBN 13 : 383661006X
Pages : 102 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (61 downloads)
Download The Role of Science Fiction PDF Format Full Free by Stefan Weißhampel and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: Since Kurt Vonnegut passed away aged 84 earlier this year (11th April 2007), his life and work received considerable media recognition. While FOX-news could not refrain from expressing rather hostile criticism in their Vonnegut obituary, admirers of Vonnegut's works reacted with angry comments to the aforementioned programme. All over the internet bloggers expressed their regrets and wrote their own obituaries commenting on Vonnegut's life as well as his books. Why does the death of an 84 year old author leaving a body of 14 novels, three collections of short stories, one compilation of fictitious interviews with dead celebrities, four works of non-fiction, five plays and one requiem lead to public reactions which differ so widely? How can the works of an author who persisted to write his last book on an old typewriter be so relevant for the technophiles of the blogosphere? These questions alone justify the continuation of an academic discourse on the works of Kurt Vonnegut which has been going on four almost forty years following the publication of Slaughterhouse-Five in 1969. Ever since that novel, critics rarely fail to mention the considerable influence of science fiction on Vonnegut's writing. Man's relationship to technology and the effects of technology on inter-human communication are central motifs in science fiction: hence, the web 2.0 generation's reaction to Vonnegut's death provides an extraordinary indication that the problems pondered upon in Vonnegut's science fiction are still relevant today. However, it has to be said that most critics' references to science fiction elements in Vonnegut's works remain limited to a surface level and evoke the impression that either the scholar is not well informed about the implications of the term 'science fiction' or fails to name his or her references. The effect of such an approach is that the works on the subject will either seem to be apologetic annexions of Vonnegut's novels by science fiction buffs and space opera fans or attempts to minimise the role of science fiction in the works of Kurt Vonnegut to mere parody. Neither impression is adequate for a thorough understanding of the role of science fiction in the works of Kurt Vonnegut. Therefore, in this paper a coordinate system discussing the implication of the term science fiction will be set up, in which Vonnegut's works can be located. In order to find a valid reference point, a fixed set of aspects will be [...]
Author : Dominic J. Nardi
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2022-08-04
ISBN 13 : 1476682011
Pages : 285 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (682 downloads)
Download Discovering Dune PDF Format Full Free by Dominic J. Nardi and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Herbert's Dune is one of the most well-known science fiction novels of all time, and it is often revered alongside time-honored classics like The Lord of the Rings. Unlike Tolkien's work, the Dune series has received remarkably little academic attention. This collection includes fourteen new essays from various academic disciplines--including philosophy, political science, disability studies, Islamic theology, environmental studies, and Byzantine history--that examine all six of Herbert's Dune books. As a compendium, it asserts that a multidisciplinary approach to the texts can lead to fresh discoveries. Also included in this collection are an introduction by Tim O'Reilly, who authored one of the first critical appraisals of Herbert's writings in 1981, and a comprehensive bibliography of essential primary and secondary sources.
Author : Halbert W. Hall
Publisher : Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited
Release Date : 1993
ISBN 13 :
Pages : 712 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index, 1985-1991 PDF Format Full Free by Halbert W. Hall and published by Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1993 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeff Prucher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2007-05-07
ISBN 13 : 0199885524
Pages : 384 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (885 downloads)
Download Brave New Words PDF Format Full Free by Jeff Prucher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a 2008 Hugo Award, this new paperback takes readers on spectacular tour of the language created by science fiction. From "Stargate" to "Force Field," this dictionary opens a fascinating window into an entire genre, through the words invented by science fiction's most talented writers, critics, and fans. Each entry includes numerous citations of the word's usage, from the earliest known appearance forward. Drawn not only from science fiction novels and stories, citations also come from fanzines, screenplays, comics, songs, and the Internet.
Author : Jeff Prucher
Publisher :
Release Date :
ISBN 13 : 0195305671
Pages : 376 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (35 downloads)
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Author : Carl D. Malmgren
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1991-07-22
ISBN 13 : 9780253336453
Pages : 242 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (253 downloads)
Download Worlds Apart PDF Format Full Free by Carl D. Malmgren and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1991-07-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Malmgren] succeeds in formulating a typology of science fiction that will become a standard reference for some years to come." —Choice " . . . the most intelligently organized and effectively argued general study of SF that I have ever read." —Rob Latham, SFRA Review " . . . required reading for its evenhanded overview of so much of the previous critical/theoretical material devoted to science fiction." —American Book Review Worlds Apart provides a comprehensive theoretical model for science fiction by examining the worlds of science fiction and the discourse which inscribes them. Malmgren identifies the basic science fiction types, including alien encounters, alternate societies and worlds, and fantasy, and examines the role of the reader in concretizing and interpreting these science fiction worlds.
