Science Fiction Handbook

von Booker

360 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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

• Reihe: John Wiley & Sons
• ISBN: 9781405162050
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.04.2009
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons