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This Guide summarises the main critical trends and developments surrounding the popular genre of science fiction. Brian Baker reviews the attempts to formulate a critical history, connects the major developments with the rise of theoretical paradigms such as feminism and postmodernism, and introduces key critical texts and major critics.
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- Cover
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION Science Fiction: At the Borders of Literature and Genre
- CHAPTER ONE Definitions: What is Science Fiction?
- CHAPTER TWO A History of the Histories
- CHAPTER THREE Science Fiction Writers on SF
- CHAPTER FOUR British Science Fiction
- CHAPTER FIVE The US Tradition
- CHAPTER SIX Utopias and Dystopias
- CHAPTER SEVEN Feminism and Cyberpunk SF
- CHAPTER EIGHT Science Fiction Cinema
- CONCLUSION Science Fiction as a World Literature
- Bibliography
- Index