Langdon gives a broad overview of the evolution of science fiction, from the early twentieth century dime store novel to the soft agenda SF of the '90s. Authors examined include E. M. Forster, John W. Campbell, Philip K. Dick and Ursula K. Le Guin. The volume also includes an introduction to the large body of SF criticism, as well as a bibliographic essay and recommended further reading.
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Definitions of science fiction abound. Landon concentrates on the notions that sf is the literature of change and that its readers have as much as its writers to do with its definition as either a literature or a genre or a point of view or a facet of popular culture. So approached, the task of encompassing twentieth-century sf in one volume is titanic, but Landon heroically rises to it. He traces the mainstream of sf and also its more recondite subgenres in concentrated but lucid prose, using analyses of selected works to keep the threads of an appallingly complex development from disappearing in a mire of names and titles, which more helpfully appear in a bibliographic essay and an annotated list of recommended reading. A worthwhile, not to say indispensable, addition to the study of science fiction. Dennis Winters
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Brooks Landon is Professor of English at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Thomas Berger and The Aesthetics of Ambivalence:Rethinking Science Fiction Film in the Age of Electronic (Re) Production.
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Criticism of science fiction cannot possibly look like the criticism we are used to. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Frank Reade, The Machine Stops, Tom Swift, Joanna Russ, Brian Aldiss, Starship Troopers, Dangerous Visions, James Gunn, New Worlds, Hugo Gernsback, Stanislaw Lem, Great Marvel, Joe Chip, John Huntington, Judith Merril, Robert Heinlein, Women of Wonder, Bruce Sterling, Jules Verne, Amazing Stories, Isaac Asimov, John Clute, Norman Spinrad, United States, Darko Suvin New!
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Criticism of science fiction cannot possibly look like the criticism we are used to. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Frank Reade, The Machine Stops, Tom Swift, Joanna Russ, Brian Aldiss, Starship Troopers, Dangerous Visions, James Gunn, New Worlds, Hugo Gernsback, Stanislaw Lem, Great Marvel, Joe Chip, John Huntington, Judith Merril, Robert Heinlein, Women of Wonder, Bruce Sterling, Jules Verne, Amazing Stories, Isaac Asimov, John Clute, Norman Spinrad, United States, Darko Suvin New!
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- Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein on 11 pages
- Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia by John Clute on 9 pages
- New Worlds: An Anthology by Michael Moorcock on 8 pages
- Dangerous Visions by Harlan Ellison on 7 pages
- We Who Are About To... by Joanna Russ on 6 pages
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- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois in Front Matter
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