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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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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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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
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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 Encyclopedi (Spanish Edition) 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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