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The Science Fiction Handbook
Contents
Part 1 Introduction
Science Fiction in Western Culture
Part 2 Brief Historical Surveys of Science Fiction Subgenres
The Time-Travel Narrative
The Alien Invasion Narrative
The Space Opera
Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
Dystopian Science Fiction
Utopian Fiction
Feminism, Science Fiction, and Gender
Science Fiction and Satire
Cyberpunk and Posthuman Science Fiction
Multicultural Science Fiction
Part 3 Representative Science Fiction Authors
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992)
Margaret Atwood (1939–)
Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006)
Samuel R. Delany (1942–)
Philip K. Dick (1928–1982)
William Gibson (1948–)
Nicola Griffith (1960–)
Joe Haldeman (1943–)
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988)
Nalo Hopkinson (1960–)
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–)
Ian McDonald (1960–)
China Miéville (1972–)
George Orwell (1903–1950)
Marge Piercy (1936–)
Frederik Pohl (1919–)
Kim Stanley Robinson (1952–)
Neal Stephenson (1959–)
H. G. Wells (1866–1946)
Part 4 Discussions of Individual Texts
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)
H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (1898)
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (1950)
Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kormbluth, The Space Merchants (1952)
Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers (1959)
Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974)
Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (1974)
Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time (1976)
Samuel R. Delany, Trouble on Triton (1976)
William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
Octavia Butler, ‘‘Xenogenesis’’ Trilogy (1987–1989)
Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (1992)
Nicola Griffith, Ammonite (1994)
Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘‘Mars’’ Trilogy (1993–1996)
Nalo Hopkinson, Midnight Robber (2000)
China Miéville, Perdido Street Station (2000)
Ian McDonald, River of Gods (2005)
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index
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