The Science Fiction Handbook

*The Science Fiction Handbook* offers a comprehensive andaccessible survey of one of the literary world's most fascinatinggenres.

Includes separate historical surveys of key subgenres includingtime-travel narratives, post-apocalyptic and post-disasternarratives and works of utopian and dystopian science fiction

Each subgenre survey includes an extensive list of relevantcritical readings, recommended novels in the subgenre, andrecommended films relevant to the subgenre

Features entries on a number of key science fiction authors andextensive discussion of major science fiction novels orsequences

Writers and works include Isaac Asimov; Margaret Atwood; GeorgeOrwell; Ursula K. Le Guin; *The War of the Worlds* (1898);*Starship Troopers* (1959); *Mars Trilogy* (1993-6); andmany more

A 'Science Fiction Glossary' completes this indispensableHandbook