Science fiction
Başlık:
Science fiction
Yazar:
Roberts, Adam (Adam Charles)
ISBN:
9780203454657
9780415192040
9780415192057
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Yayın Bilgileri:
London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (vi, 204 p.)
Seri:
The new critical idiom
New critical idiom.
İçerik:
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.
Özet:
"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 feminist SF novel The Left Hand of Darkness, to Barry Sonnenfeld's 1997 blockbuster film Men in Black. Roberts introduces essential critical terminology, looking in detail at concepts of alien, cyborg, spaceship and robot, and tackling issues such as gender, race, technology and science fiction/science fact."--BOOK JACKET.
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