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M. Keith Booker
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The Science Fiction Handbook |
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English |
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Paperback |
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356 |
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2009-04-20 |
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1405162066 |
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Wiley-Blackwell |
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1.15 pounds |
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0.79 x 6.26 x 8.82 inches |
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1 |
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Product Description
The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible survey of one of the literary world's most fascinating genres. - Includes separate historical surveys of key subgenres including time-travel narratives, post-apocalyptic and post-disaster narratives and works of utopian and dystopian science fiction
- Each subgenre survey includes an extensive list of relevant critical readings, recommended novels in the subgenre, and recommended films relevant to the subgenre
- Features entries on a number of key science fiction authors and extensive discussion of major science fiction novels or sequences
- Writers and works include Isaac Asimov; Margaret Atwood; George Orwell; Ursula K. Le Guin; The War of the Worlds (1898); Starship Troopers (1959); Mars Trilogy (1993-6); and many more
- A 'Science Fiction Glossary' completes this indispensable Handbook
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