The Science Fiction Handbook

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Booker, M. Keith
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2009.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • The Science Fiction Handbook
  • Contents
  • Part 1 Introduction
  • Science Fiction in Western Culture
  • Part 2 Brief Historical Surveys of Science Fiction Subgenres
  • The Time-Travel Narrative
  • The Alien Invasion Narrative
  • The Space Opera
  • Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
  • Dystopian Science Fiction
  • Utopian Fiction
  • Feminism, Science Fiction, and Gender
  • Science Fiction and Satire
  • Cyberpunk and Posthuman Science Fiction
  • Multicultural Science Fiction
  • Part 3 Representative Science Fiction Authors
  • Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
  • Margaret Atwood (1939-)
  • Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006)
  • Samuel R. Delany (1942-)
  • Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)
  • William Gibson (1948-)
  • Nicola Griffith (1960-)
  • Joe Haldeman (1943-)
  • Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)
  • Nalo Hopkinson (1960-)
  • Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-)
  • Ian McDonald (1960-)
  • China Miéville (1972-)
  • George Orwell (1903-1950)
  • Marge Piercy (1936-)
  • Frederik Pohl (1919-)
  • Kim Stanley Robinson (1952-)
  • Neal Stephenson (1959-)
  • H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
  • Part 4 Discussions of Individual Texts
  • H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)
  • H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (1898)
  • George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
  • Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (1950)
  • Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kormbluth, The Space Merchants (1952)
  • Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers (1959)
  • Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
  • Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974)
  • Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (1974)
  • Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time (1976)
  • Samuel R. Delany, Trouble on Triton (1976)
  • William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)
  • Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
  • Octavia Butler, ''Xenogenesis'' Trilogy (1987-1989)
  • Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (1992)
  • Nicola Griffith, Ammonite (1994)
  • Kim Stanley Robinson, ''Mars'' Trilogy (1993-1996)
  • Nalo Hopkinson, Midnight Robber (2000)
  • China Miéville, Perdido Street Station (2000)
  • Ian McDonald, River of Gods (2005)
  • Glossary
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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