Science Fiction

In Science FictionAdam Roberts offers a clear and critically engaging account of the phenomenon illustrating the critical terminology and following the contours of its continuing history.

Adam Roberts is Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Series Editor's Preface

vii

Acknowledgements

ix

Defining science fiction

1

(46)

One definition

1

(6)

Three definitions

7

(12)

The SF novum

19

(9)

Difference

28

(2)

Prediction and nostalgia

30

(6)

Case study: Frank Herbert, Dune (1965)

36

(11)

The history of science fiction: from beginnings to the 1960s

47

(44)

Origins

47

(12)

Jules Verne and H G Wells

59

(8)

Pulp SF

67

(8)

The Golden Age: Asimov

75

(4)

New wave

79

(5)

Case study: Star Wars (1977) and intertextuality

84

(7)

Gender

91

(27)

Feminist science fiction

91

(9)

Women and aliens

100

(6)

Case study: Ursula Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)

106

(12)

Race

118

(28)

Representing race

121

(6)

Race and Star Trek

127

(5)

Alien abduction

132

(5)

Case study: blackness in Sonnenfeld's Men in Black (1997)

137

(9)

Technology and metaphor

146

(35)

Spaceships

151

(7)

Robots

158

(9)

Cyberspace

167

(2)

Case study: William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)

169

(12)

Conclusion

181

(4)

Glossary

185

(10)

Select Bibliography

195

(6)

Index

201

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