Science Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars (Studies in Literary Themes and Genres Series) [Hardcover]

Brooks Landon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 20, 1997

Series Editor: Ronald Gottesman, University of Southern California

Students and teachers alike will welcome the books in this series as accessible introductions to many widely-studied themes and genres. Each book includes:

• An in-depth analyses of four to six exemplary texts
• An extensive annotated list of works for further reading
• A bibliographic essay
• A chronology of major authors, works, and historical events of importance in the development of the theme or genre
• An overview of the evolution of the theme or genre

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

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

About the Author

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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 251 pages
• Publisher: Twayne Pub; 1st edition (February 20, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805709622
• ISBN-13: 978-0805709629
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,816,924 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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