The Science Fiction Handbook

Nick Hubble, Aris Mousoutzanis, Nick Hubble, Aris Mousoutzanis

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781441170965
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781472538970
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism in Science Fiction
• Index: Literature

As we move through the 21st century, the importance of science fiction to the study of English Literature is becoming increasingly apparent. The Science Fiction Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the genre and how to study it for students new to the field. In particular, it provides detailed entries on major writers in the SF field who might be encountered on university-level English Literature courses, ranging from H.G. Wells and Philip K. Dick, to Doris Lessing and Geoff Ryman. Other features include an historical timeline, sections on key writers, critics and critical terms, and case studies of both literary and critical works. In the later sections of the book, the changing nature of the science fiction canon and its growing role in relation to the wider categories of English Literature are discussed in depth introducing the reader to the latest critical thinking on the field.

Table of contents

• FC
• Half title
• Literature and Culture Handbooks
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 The Historical Context of Science Fiction
• 2 An Annotated Science Fiction Timeline
• 3 Major Science Fiction Authors
• 4 Case Studies in Reading 1: Key Primary Literary Texts
• 5 Case Studies in Reading 2: Key Theoretical and Critical Texts in Science Fiction Studies
• 6 Key Critical Concepts, Topics and Critics
• 7 The Science Fiction Film
• 8 Science Fiction Criticism
• 9 Changes in the Canon
• 10 Issues of Gender, Sexuality and Ethnicity
• 11 Mapping the Current Critical Landscape
• Index