Science fiction
"Adam Roberts examines the history of science fiction and the critical debate which surrounds this, providing beginners with a springboard for further study, but also challenging more advanced students with original interpretations of key SF texts. These range from Ursula Le Guin's 1969 fe...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge
2000.
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| Colección: | The new critical idiom.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b32007176*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Defining science fiction: one definition
- Three definitions
- The SF novum
- Difference
- Prediction and nostalgia
- Case study: Frank Herbert, Dune (1965)
- 2. The history of science fiction, from beginnings to the 1960s: origins
- Jules Verne and H.G. Wells
- Pulp SF
- The golden age: Asimov
- New wave
- Case study: Star wars (1977) and intertextuality
- 3. Gender: feminist science fiction
- Women and aliens
- Case study: Ursula Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
- 4. Race: representing race
- Race and Star trek
- Alien abduction
- Case study: blackness in Sonnenfeld's Men in black (1997)
- 5. Technology and metaphor: spaceships
- Robots
- Cyberspace
- Case study: William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)
- 6. Conclusion.
