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The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction By:"Rob Latham" Published on 2014 by Oxford University Press, USA The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction attempts to descry the historical and cultural contours of SF in the wake of technoculture studies. Rather than treating the genre as an isolated aesthetic formation, it examines SF's many lines of cross-pollination with technocultural realities since its inception in the nineteenth century, showing how SF's unique history and subcultural identity has been constructed in ongoing dialogue with popular discourses of science and technology. The volume consists of four broadly themed sections, each divided into eleven chapters. Section I, \ This Book was ranked 15 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

The Distinction of Fiction By:"Dorrit Cohn" Published on 2000-10-26 by JHU Press Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies The border between fact and fiction has been trespassed so often it seems to be a highway. Works of history that include fictional techniques are usually held in contempt, but works of fiction that include history are among the greatest of classics. Fiction claims to be able to convey its own unique kinds of truth. But unless a reader knows in advance whether a narrative is fictional or not, judgment can be frustrated and confused. In The Distinction of Fiction, Dorrit Cohn argues that fiction does present specific clues to its fictionality, and its own justifications. Indeed, except in cases of deliberate deception, fiction achieves its purposes best by exercising generic conventions that inform the reader that it is fiction. Cohn tests her conclusions against major narrative works, i...

Decoding Gender in Science Fiction By:"Brian Attebery" Published on 2002 by Psychology Press First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. This Book was ranked 36 by Google Books for keyword science fiction.

The Animal Fable in Science Fiction and Fantasy By:"Bruce Shaw" Published on 2010-04-15 by McFarland \ This Book was ranked 29 by Google Books for keyword science fiction.

Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction By:"David Seed" Published on 2011-06-23 by Oxford University Press David Seed examines how science fiction has emerged as a popular genre of literature in the 20th century, and discusses it in relation to themes such as science and technology, space, aliens, utopias, and gender. Looking at some of the most influential writers of the genre he also considers the wider social and political issues it raises. This Book was ranked 12 by Google Books for keyword science fiction.

The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe By:"Edgar Allan Poe","Harold Beaver" Published on 2006-07-27 by Penguin UK One of the greatest of all horror writers, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) also composed pioneering tales that seized upon the scientific developments of an era marked by staggering change. In this collection of sixteen stories, he explores such wide-ranging contemporary themes as galvanism, time travel and resurrection of the dead. 'The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfall' relates a man's balloon journey to the moon with a combination of scientific precision and astonishing fantasy. Elsewhere, the boundaries between horror and science are elegantly blurred in stories such as 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar', while the great essay 'Eureka' outlines Poe's own interpretation of the universe. Powerfully influential on later authors including Jules Verne, these works are essential reading for anyone wishing to trace the g...