Brooks Landon

Science Fiction After 1900 (eBook, PDF)

From the Steam Man to the Stars

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 2003. Brooks Landon analyses science fiction not as a set of rules for writers, but as a set of expectations for readers. He presents science fiction as a social phenomenon that moves beyond literary experience through a sense of mission based on the belief that SF can be a tool to help you think. He offers a broad overview of the genre and the stages through which it has developed in the twentieth century from the dime store novel through the New Wave of the '60s, the cyberpunk '80s, and soft agenda SF of the '90s. The writers he examines range for E. M. Forster and John W. Campbell to Philip K. Dick and Ursula K. Le Guin. He also examines the large body of criticism now devoted to the genre and includes a bibliographic essay and a list of recommended titles.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136761195
• Artikelnr.: 40860732

Autorenporträt

Brooks Landon is Professor of English at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Thomas Berger and TheAesthetics of Ambivalence:Rethinking Science Fiction Filmin the Age of Electronic (Re) Production.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Chapter 1: The Culture of Science Fiction-Rationalizing Genre
Chapter 2: From the Steam Man to the Stars
Chapter 3: Science Fiction outside Genre SF
Chapter 4: Countercultures of Science Fiction-Resisting Genre
Chapter 5: New and Newer Waves
Notes and References
Bibliographic Essay
Recommended Titles
Index