The Science Fiction Handbook
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Author |
: M. Keith Booker |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 2009-03-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1444310356 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781444310351 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Science Fiction Handbook by : M. Keith Booker
The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible survey of one of the literary world's most fascinating genres. Includes separate historical surveys of key subgenres including time-travel narratives, post-apocalyptic and post-disaster narratives and works of utopian and dystopian science fiction Each subgenre survey includes an extensive list of relevant critical readings, recommended novels in the subgenre, and recommended films relevant to the subgenre Features entries on a number of key science fiction authors and extensive discussion of major science fiction novels or sequences Writers and works include Isaac Asimov; Margaret Atwood; George Orwell; Ursula K. Le Guin; The War of the Worlds (1898); Starship Troopers (1959); Mars Trilogy (1993-6); and many more A 'Science Fiction Glossary' completes this indispensable Handbook
Author |
: Nick Hubble |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 286 |
Release |
: 2013-11-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472538970 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1472538978 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Science Fiction Handbook by : Nick Hubble
As we move through the 21st century, the importance of science fiction to the study of English Literature is becoming increasingly apparent. The Science Fiction Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the genre and how to study it for students new to the field. In particular, it provides detailed entries on major writers in the SF field who might be encountered on university-level English Literature courses, ranging from H.G. Wells and Philip K. Dick, to Doris Lessing and Geoff Ryman. Other features include an historical timeline, sections on key writers, critics and critical terms, and case studies of both literary and critical works. In the later sections of the book, the changing nature of the science fiction canon and its growing role in relation to the wider categories of English Literature are discussed in depth introducing the reader to the latest critical thinking on the field.
Author |
: Nick Hubble |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 188 |
Release |
: 2013-11-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472538963 |
ISBN-13 |
: 147253896X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Science Fiction Handbook by : Nick Hubble
As we move through the 21st century, the importance of science fiction to the study of English Literature is becoming increasingly apparent. The Science Fiction Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the genre and how to study it for students new to the field. In particular, it provides detailed entries on major writers in the SF field who might be encountered on university-level English Literature courses, ranging from H.G. Wells and Philip K. Dick, to Doris Lessing and Geoff Ryman. Other features include an historical timeline, sections on key writers, critics and critical terms, and case studies of both literary and critical works. In the later sections of the book, the changing nature of the science fiction canon and its growing role in relation to the wider categories of English Literature are discussed in depth introducing the reader to the latest critical thinking on the field.
Author |
: L. Sprague deCamp |
Publisher |
: Hachette UK |
Total Pages |
: 184 |
Release |
: 2014-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780575103610 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0575103612 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Science-Fiction Handbook by : L. Sprague deCamp
Copy from the 1975 Owlswick Press print edition: L. Sprague de Camp's original Science-Fiction Handbook, published in 1953 and long out of print, has been favourably remembered by a whole generation of science fiction readers and aspiring writers. Over the years, at convention after convention, fans have urged its reissue. Teachers of courses on imaginative fiction have begged for the book; one planned to reproduce the manual for his creative writing course until he learned that the material was under copyright Because of this enduring interest, the present book came into being. Completely rewritten by de Camp and his wife Catherine, Science Fiction Handbook, Revised serves two purposes. It introduces the general reader to the fascinating field of imaginative fiction. The first two chapters describe the growth of science fiction from Aristophanes to Asimov and give the history of its parent literature, fantasy, which is as old as cavemen and as young as tomorrow. The rest of the book affords the apprentice writer an overview of the pleasures and problems of writing imaginative fiction an teachers him the many and varied skills such writing requires. There are chapters on setting the scene, plotting the story and writing dialogue. Other chapters are devoted to showing the creative writer how to sore his literary works, keep records for tax purposes, market a story, deal with editors and agents, read the fine print in contracts and bargain with publishers. Finally, there are helpful hints for the successful writer about relating to his community, handling publicity and melding the needs of the creative artists with those of a successful human being and family member. In short, here is a wealth of information on the techniques of writing fiction. Here, too, is the wisdom distilled by the de Camps in the course of their long writing careers. And, for those who have no desire to write, here is a chance to see what the writer's world is really like and to learn something about the remarkable literature that we call science fiction and fantasy.
Author |
: Rob Latham |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 641 |
Release |
: 2014-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199838851 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199838852 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction by : Rob Latham
The excitement of possible futures found in science fiction has long fired the human imagination, but the genre's acceptance by academe is relatively recent. No longer marginalized and fighting for respectability, science-fictional works are now studied alongside more traditional art forms. Tracing the capacious genre's birth, evolution, and impact across nations, time periods, subgenres, and media, The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction offers an in-depth, comprehensive assessment of this robust area of scholarly inquiry and considers the future directions that will dictate the terms of the scholarly discourse. The Handbook begins with a focus on questions of genre, covering topics such as critical history, keywords, narrative, the fantastic, and fandom. A subsequent section on media engages with film, television, comics, architecture, music, video games, and more. The genre's role in the convergence of art and everyday life animates a third section, which addresses topics such as UFOs,
Author |
: George Elrick |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 1978 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106005071458 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Science Fiction Handbook for Readers and Writers by : George Elrick
Author |
: Lyon Sprague De Camp |
Publisher |
: McGraw-Hill Companies |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 1977 |
ISBN-10 |
: PSU:000029873623 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Science Fiction Handbook by : Lyon Sprague De Camp
Author |
: George Ochoa |
Publisher |
: Writer's Digest Books |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0898795362 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780898795363 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Writer's Guide to Creating a Science Fiction Universe by : George Ochoa
To hold the interest of knowledgeable sci-fi readers, a writer the genre must stay within certain fuzzy boundaries of scientific belief. This volume provides some of the scientific detail that will make a writer's adventures compelling and consistent with current views of the universe. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author |
: Rob Latham |
Publisher |
: Oxford Handbooks |
Total Pages |
: 641 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199838844 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199838844 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction by : Rob Latham
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 itsinception 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, "Science Fiction as Genre," considers the internal history of SF literature, examining its characteristic aesthetic and ideological modalities, its animating social and commercial institutions, and itsrelationship to other fantastic genres. Section II, "Science Fiction as Medium," presents a more diverse and ramified understanding of what constitutes the field as a mode of artistic and pop-cultural expression, canvassing extra-literary manifestations of SF ranging from film and television tovideogames and hypertext to music and theme parks. Section III, "Science Fiction as Culture," examines the genre in relation to cultural issues and contexts that have influenced it and been influenced by it in turn, the goal being to see how SF has helped to constitute and define important(sub)cultural groupings, social movements, and historical developments during the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Finally, Section IV, "Science Fiction as Worldview," explores SF as a mode of thought and its intersection with other philosophies and large-scale perspectives on theworld, from the Enlightenment to the present day.
Author |
: Tom Shippey |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 587 |
Release |
: 2003-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0192803816 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780192803818 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories by : Tom Shippey
A collection of classic science fiction short stories features tales by H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clark, Frederik Pohl, Clifford Simak, Brian Aldiss, Ursala K. LeGuin, and many others. Edited by the author of The Road to Middle-Earth. 20,000 first printing.