Science Fiction Handbook - Couverture souple

Booker, M. Keith; Thomas, Anne-Marie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1405162066 ISBN 13 : 9781405162067

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), 2009

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"Science fiction has been an important force in English–language literature and publishing for well over one hundred years. The task of adequately summarizing it ... would seem daunting. Doing it adequately and in a manner that is both understandable to the lay reader and even at times entertaining might seem an impossibility. And doing all that in fewer than 350 pages . . . forget it. But Booker and Thomas have succeeded. Bravo. As Mr. Spock might say, with the lift of an eyebrow, ′Fascinating.′ As is this handbook. Every decent library should have it, and every good science fiction fan should refer to it. I guarantee you′ll learn something and have your horizons expanded." ( Green Man Review, September 2009)

?Booker and Thomas have produced a valuable work that manages to find a niche in a suddenly crowded market for resources on science fiction.? (CHOICE, October 2009)

"The book is ... rich, [and] diverse ... .If you are interested in science fiction ... you [should] run out and get a copy. Although the focus is on literature, movies and TV shows are also included. I highly recommend it. The book not only taught me and demonstrated its a potential as a reference work, it introduced me to works of science fiction that I had not read and left me wanting to go out and read them." (Exploring Our Matrix Blog, September 2009)

"In short, The Science Fiction Handbook is a fascinating reference work that puts science fiction subgenres into historical perspective while offering more detailed analyses of representative corresponding novels." (SF Signal, July 2009)

?In The Science Fiction Handbook, authors M. Keith Booker and Anne–Marie Thomas finally give the genre its due, and celebrate it, as well as help to distinguish it from other forms such as fantasy or horror.? (SFscope.com, April 2009)

Quatrième de couverture :

Few literary genres can expand the boundaries of our imagination as much as science fiction. The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive historical survey of literary works of science fiction and its most popular sub–genres. Beginning with a broad overview of science fiction′s emergence as a literary genre, the Handbook goes on to provide detailed historical surveys of its distinct sub–genres, whose development often paralleled society′s technological advances. These include works of time–travel and alternative history narratives; alien–invasion narratives; space exploration and space opera; post–apocalyptic and post–disaster narratives; works of utopian and dystopian science fiction; feminism and gender themes in science fiction; science fiction as satire; cyberpunk and post–human science fiction; and multicultural science fiction. The authors also offer brief biographies of several noted science fiction writers along with extended critical analyses of 20 of the genre′s most significant works.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1405162066
• ISBN 13: 9781405162067
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 356